We have a 10 year old Stratasys printer here, and one of the many boards in the back has died - probably the main power board. With the cost of someone coming out to repair it, we might as well replace it with something new, (and the trade in value was minimal) so a hobby printer it has become.
I want to convert it to be Duet controlled like all my other printers, and the thought of 110VDC for the heaters scares me, so a retrofit of just the control board does not make sense.
Happy to design and fabricate a new print head, but want to keep the clever mechanism for swapping print nozzles. At the moment they use a single DC motor and encoder for driving both material and support. I would like to swap that to be a stepper, but am not sure how to configure that in software.
Is it even possible? One motor to rotate clockwise for main material, and anti-clockwise for support?
TIA.