New Duex2,3,4,5?
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One of the features we are considering for the DueX2/DueX5 is an on-board switching regulator to provide a 12V supply when Vin is higher (typically 24V). This would facilitate using 12V fans and 12V LED strips. It would add about £5 to the retail price of the board. Those of you who are interested in expansion boards, do you think this is a good idea, or not worth the extra cost?
My twopence worth - excellent idea. Cheaper than a 24v DC to 12V DC converter and the wiring will be much more elegant. It gives users the flexibility to source fans/led lights in both 12 or 24v versions so much more choice. I'd be happy to pay the fiver.
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One of the features we are considering for the DueX2/DueX5 is an on-board switching regulator to provide a 12V supply when Vin is higher (typically 24V). This would facilitate using 12V fans and 12V LED strips. It would add about £5 to the retail price of the board. Those of you who are interested in expansion boards, do you think this is a good idea, or not worth the extra cost?
My twopence worth - excellent idea. Cheaper than a 24v DC to 12V DC converter and the wiring will be much more elegant. It gives users the flexibility to source fans/led lights in both 12 or 24v versions so much more choice. I'd be happy to pay the fiver.
I also agree.
Doug
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One of the features we are considering for the DueX2/DueX5 is an on-board switching regulator to provide a 12V supply when Vin is higher (typically 24V). This would facilitate using 12V fans and 12V LED strips. It would add about £5 to the retail price of the board. Those of you who are interested in expansion boards, do you think this is a good idea, or not worth the extra cost?
My twopence worth - excellent idea. Cheaper than a 24v DC to 12V DC converter and the wiring will be much more elegant. It gives users the flexibility to source fans/led lights in both 12 or 24v versions so much more choice. I'd be happy to pay the fiver.
I also agree.
Doug
This would be super delightful.
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One of the features we are considering for the DueX2/DueX5 is an on-board switching regulator to provide a 12V supply when Vin is higher (typically 24V). This would facilitate using 12V fans and 12V LED strips. It would add about £5 to the retail price of the board. Those of you who are interested in expansion boards, do you think this is a good idea, or not worth the extra cost?
Make it so!
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One of the features we are considering for the DueX2/DueX5 is an on-board switching regulator to provide a 12V supply when Vin is higher (typically 24V). This would facilitate using 12V fans and 12V LED strips. It would add about £5 to the retail price of the board. Those of you who are interested in expansion boards, do you think this is a good idea, or not worth the extra cost?
Make it so!
2X
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This feature has been included in the prototypes that are being manufactured.
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Just a small cheap board with 10 pin dual row IDC plugs for each axis. In the future I would like to see a Duet Wifi version that is setup for all the axis outputs go to IDC plugs for external drives for bigger machines and integrated stepper motors where the drive is on the motor.
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The 12V conversion to allow for LED and fans when running a 24V printer is awesome. I wish I saw this thread sooner because I would have suggested maybe a CAT5 internet jack to be able to plug in the Duet or use the Wifi feature. Bit of best of both worlds. Not sure if that would even be possible, but would have been a "nice to have". I also love the idea of the Duex2. I don't know if I would have used all 5 extras, but with multi extrusion becoming more popular I think the need for extra 5 can be more of a reality. Since the PCB will be the same on the Duex2, how hard would it be to add more divers to the board (for a common man) if at all possible.
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jmjcoke - a simple breakout board is a request I am tracking - just not sure how popular it would be.
danzca6 - Ethernet would not really be feasible on the expansion board without a radical redesign of how the hardware works that would end up with a sub optimal solution. Regarding adding the other components to the Duex2 you would need to be comfortable with working with surface mount components and have a appropriate re-work station, its certainly not impossible but would not be something I would suggest as a first project for somebody just getting into that sort of electronics work. You would, however, be able to connect an external driver relatively simply.
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One of our printers is quite large and we decided to use M542 drivers for 3Nm nema24 Z axis motors.
The printer works on RUMBA (Atmega 2560) electronics by RepRapDiscount and we just connected M542 instead of stepsticks.
They work very well.
Another thing is we tried to use servos with DCS 303 drivers from leadshine. It was a great learning opportunity although we dropped it for a while because of some positioning inaccuracies probably due to signal duration differences.So rounding things up…DUEX is a very special thing used to build extraordinary machines and force them to tackle impossible tasks.
It could have some potential for some of us to have the STEP and DIR pins broken out which not neccessary is a hard thing to do depending on development stage. Probably it's late to bring it up or it already had been but I found the forum a few days ago just to be staggered with how dunamic it is and put this idea.External drivers possibility all the way.
