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Hi All,

I'm new to the forum and the Duet systems. I've taken my Ender 5 Pro and have turned it into a kind of working project. Moving to a Duet 3 was the first stage.

After some help from several people on this forum I now have a functional printer. It looks like a complete mess, but that will be sorted out in time.

After this step my next goals were to add some form of bed leveling and a second z stepper (which you can see in a prototype stage at the front in the image). I've wired them up already and done some testing with the BLTouch. The additional z stepper is just rubber banded to the frame until I print out some connector parts. The green connector plate is just hanging in space so I could make sure it lined up with the bed leveling screws. I have to say it's pretty cool to see it moving completely in sync with the main bed.

I've also ordered a new extruder hot-end that should be here in a couple weeks and then there are other bigger changes down the line like increasing the dimensions, moving to linear rails, creating an enclosure, running a mains powered heated bed and an additional z stepper for auto bed leveling. I'm sure there will be more that I haven't thought of yet.

So far, I found the Duet 3 extremely easy to work with. The whole setup with RepRap firmware is very easy to configure and making changes without having to recompile is a fantastic thing!

I appreciate all the help everyone has given me on the forum so far and I look forward to learning more and hopefully contributing at some point.

Regards,
David

Thanks again @Phaedrux for your knowledge. I used the web interface to upload the files and now the home buttons function. I'm wiring every interface one at a time and testing it. I've got everything functional now except for the bed heater wiring. I'll make a separate post for that though.

Thanks,
David

@Phaedrux it is the stock bed heater. @Veti's suggestion of doing the PID tuning worked. I'm not sure what the buzzing noise was, but it didn't repeat and the PID tuning went smoothly for but the bed and hot end.

I've now got everything up and running. I just finished setting up a custom printer in Cura and am running a test print now. I'm not expecting miracles on this first pass but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for it to complete so I can figure out where I need to start with tuning parameters.

Thanks,
David