Something terrible has happened… Smoke from the Duet Wifi
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I'm in the process of converting my Ormerod 2 to a core x-y D-Bot and was just thinking about attempting to protect against failures like this by bouncing the connectors on the duet through a break out/fuse board. Would a poly fuse or quick blow standard fuse respond quick enough to protect the Duet? With the exception of the steppers anything that shares the main voltage would cause serious damage if shorted to earth before the load?
Currently I'd be thinking about protecting the fan and heater outputs. I didn't think it'd be worth protecting the steppers as there would have to be a failure of the control circuit to dump more than 2A to the drives anyway?
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It seems to be fan connectors that users short out. One way to protect them would be to remove the fan voltage select jumper and connect a fuse between the centre pin of that connector and +VIN, assuming you want the fan voltage to be the same as VIn.
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It seems to be fan connectors that users short out. One way to protect them would be to remove the fan voltage select jumper and connect a fuse between the centre pin of that connector and +VIN, assuming you want the fan voltage to be the same as VIn.
What would be an appropriate fuse amperage for 24VIN that would protect the mosfets? This sounds like a prudent addition given that I may be changing between effectors on a frequent basis, and have quick disconnects on the cooling fans.
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If they are ordinary 24V brushless fans, they will take roughly 150mA each. So a fuse in the range 500mA to 1A should be about right, depending on the number of fans.
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Thats a simple way to solve the problem. Will Make me a wire with fuse holder and do it like that. Cheap insurance.
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It seems to be fan connectors that users short out. One way to protect them would be to remove the fan voltage select jumper and connect a fuse between the centre pin of that connector and +VIN, assuming you want the fan voltage to be the same as VIn.
What would be an appropriate fuse amperage for 24VIN that would protect the mosfets? This sounds like a prudent addition given that I may be changing between effectors on a frequent basis, and have quick disconnects on the cooling fans.
"A transistor always protects any fuse" (C) "Arts of electronics"
Addition: Without some sort of current limitter in MOSFET switch it is no chance for the fuse to work, IMHO.
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It seems to be fan connectors that users short out. One way to protect them would be to remove the fan voltage select jumper and connect a fuse between the centre pin of that connector and +VIN, assuming you want the fan voltage to be the same as VIn.
Ohh, I like that elegant solution!
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@Alexander:
It seems to be fan connectors that users short out. One way to protect them would be to remove the fan voltage select jumper and connect a fuse between the centre pin of that connector and +VIN, assuming you want the fan voltage to be the same as VIn.
Ohh, I like that elegant solution!
As the post prior to yours points out, it's quite possible that the mosfet will fail before the fuse blows; but if it fails short circuit, then at least the fuse should protect the PCB traces.
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On a very similar subject I've noticed reverse connected diodes on the fan controller (between V_IN and FanX-) on the DuetWifi, but not on the Duet 0.6. Are these intended as flyback diodes to catch the inductive kick from the fans when the supply voltage is chopped? If so is it advisable to add reverse connected diodes to the fans connected to Fan0 to protect the Duet 0.6?
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We added the flyback diodes in PCB revision 1.02 because a few users had connected BerdAir or similar water pumps to fan outputs without using a flyback diode, which damaged the mosfet. Ordinary brushless fans do not require flyback diodes, but brushed DC motors do.
