Dual extruder setup in Marlin
I have a Tevo Tarantula with a MKS Base 1.5 board and dual extruders. I am running Marlin RC8 Tevo Community build for the dual extruder, large bed and SN04 sensor.
All temperature sensors work and give accurate reading but
E1when activated runs at 100% until the overtemps kicks in and shuts down the system. Like I said, it reads proper temperatures through the thermistor it just won’t stop at the set temperature. I checked the MOSFET and there is no obvious scorching or bad solder joints on the MKS board. This leads me to believe it is a mix-up in firmware but, being a bit of a newbie on this, I am still getting familiar with G-code and Marlin.I have confirmed the correct board is being referenced in firmware from
boards.hbut looking atconfiguration.hI just get confused. What I am thinking is somehow/somewhereE1might be referenced as a fan that is just off or on. Anybody have ideas?I am not sure what the hardware config is for the Tevo Tarantula
Make sure your
configuration.hfile is setup for your hardware.
The extruder defines are describe in Conditional_LCD.hIt looks like the configuration.h file on GitHub is configured for a single extruder.
For example, if you have 2 hotends; but, "HOTENDS=2" is not set then the I/O will not be configured for the 2nd hotend. I just looked at the code and if
HOTENDS == 1then theMOSFET_D_PINwill be used to control FAN1 (which sounds very similar to what you are describing that you are seeing).#if HOTENDS == 1
#define FAN1_PIN MOSFET_D_PIN
#else
#define HEATER_1_PIN MOSFET_D_PIN
#endifIf the tarantula uses a single hotend, don't define SINGLENOZZLE but define SWITCHING_EXTRUDER and (i think) EXTRUDERS=2. Then the code will expect the single hotend to be connected to D10.
Thank you for the direction to go. The setup is dual and I "thought" I had checked that.
"Dual" can mean several things. Do you have two separate extruders (hotends), a (single) mixing extruder, or a (single) standard extruder with a dual filament feeder? Marlin has to be configured for the specific type.
So, following on from Mark's answer, in line 298 of Conditional_LCD.h, you would need to change:
#define HOTENDS 1to
#define HOTENDS 2I had a similar problem, my documentation was wrong and the heater & thermistor were wired in backwards. Maybe recheck your wiring and even try reversing the temp sensor on your board.
Do you mean that you swapped the heater and thermistor connections, or do you mean that the thermistor was connected to the right therminals - but backwards? Thermistors and heaters are generally not polarized, and can be connected either way around. They're just simple resistors.
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markshancock 5 years ago
Is this build what you are using?