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Stepper driver series update (Patreon)

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2019-02-23 21:51:40
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2026-06
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Dear Patrons,

The next installment on the driver upgrades is on track, being the 2208 guide. They have three modes of operation, and my impression is that most people that use them seem to only have the simplest functionality enabled. Hopefully my video can expand things a bit.

2130s guide will be out after that (late next week). Looking forward to showing things like sensorless homing. The same company who stuffed up the 2208 order also sent me the wrong driver instead of LV8729, which were meant to be part of the series. I'll get to them once they eventually arrive.

I'll post firmware here for the 2208 and 2130.

Michael

Comments

Marc Chametzky

I saw your TMC2100 video and thought it was great, both for showing what benefits it can offer an Ender 3 user and for just demonstrating just how much potential can be unlocked from the base Ender 3 with some interesting upgrade options. I'm eager to see your TMC2208 video as well. I'm guessing that your "simplest functionality" is about the separate communications wire that's needed in order to get full functionality out of it. I've made up those wires for my setup and actually surprised myself that it wasn't as bad as I had feared, although I could see a market for a 3D printer enthusiast company selling pre-made ones, perhaps as part of an upgrade kit.

Teaching Tech

That's exactly what I'm referring to. I agree someone should sell them with pre-made jumper wires, the header pins facing the right way and the mini jumpers soldered on the board.

Matthew Taylan

I can’t wait for this too! I went from adding a BL Touch, then saying might as well get the MKS board, bought 2208’s and the touch screen. Two of my other buddies just got ender 3’s and I just send them all your videos. You are awesome, thanks so much.

Chris Hellweg

Are you going to tackle UART mode with the 2208's as well?

Marc Chametzky
>>20157858

Based on his reply to my comment, I believe so. Those wires are required for the UART communications.

Rhynier Myburgh

I am itching to buy a MKS board but don't know which driers to get with it. Not to jump the gun on your part 2 video, but can you say at this stage what your preferred driver chips are for the Ender 3 so I can get them ordered so long :)? Just to add, I am looking at the TMC2130s and there are some kits on AliExpress with the patch wires for SPI mode. My 2 concerns are (1) the chips are mounted on top but from what I understand the TMC2130's need to be mounted on the underside of the board with a heatsink on the opposite side and (2) can I do SPI mode and have a BL Touch at the same time (as in, are there enough input pins)?

Teaching Tech
>>20162018

If you just want a cheap and quiet solution, the 2100s were impressive. 2208 needs a bit of stuff around to do the fancy stuff, but you can still use it as a drop in. 2130 has some wiring too but the fancy stuff is more useful.

Teaching Tech
>>20162018

On an MKS Gen L there are (almost) millions of pins, so no worries there. For the 2130s I have one brand with the hip on the top and one with the chip on the bottom, do we'll see how testing goes.

Lord Sarix

Do you have a recommendation for which driver to use on the extruder? I am planning on the 2208's for the others but I've seen some back and forth about using them for the extruder.

Kumra

I have installed the 2130's on my MKS Gen L which I installed using your videos, for some reason the microswith end stops stopped working so I was forced to work out how to make sensorless homing work. I think I got it working properly but sometimes it seems to think it has hit the endstop but it hasn't. Hopefully your video will reveal some details that I missed perhaps!

Kumra

I would love your firmware config for the 2130's when you have time to post them :) thanks

Kumra
>>20153989

What is the point of the resistors, why are they required?

Robert Allen Payne

I bought a Fysetc F6 mainboard and ordered 2130s from Filastruder. And I’m terrified to do anything with them. It’s crazy. I have no problem ripping a $3,000 computer apart and doing all kinds of things to modify it. But a $30 main board and some breakout boards has me quaking in my boots. Lol. Ever so grateful you are doing this series. Thanks again and again!

Axel Johansson

Really like the stepper driver series! (And all the order videos of course) Any opinions here if installing motor dampeners is redundant (noise wise) if switching to a MKS Gen L with quiet stepper drivers..? Contemplating going that route instead to get some lower dB, since I have pressed on pulleys..

Michael Earls
>>20316308

You probably saw his latest video, but in case you didn't, Michael stated that having dampers and smoothers is redundant when you upgrade the stepper motor drivers. I had this same question until I watched the video last night.

Teaching Tech
>>20463206

I noticed the references to the F6 board in the versioning of the Fysetc drivers. Might be an interesting board to try.

Kumra

Hi Michael, when will you get around to posting the firmwares that you mention above? Thanks

Teaching Tech

I think I should be able to post them this week from Melbourne. Sorry for the delay.

Grant Le Sueur

I loved this series. I used Clearpath servos on my cnc machine perfectly silent with no compromise on torque. For my 3d printers I just place my ender2 and ender 3 on a rubber mat

Kumra
>>20624545

Hey man, don't forget to upload the firmware please, I have an identical setup as yours but have a few issues and am hoping that your firmware will answer a few questions for me :)

Jason Kohn

Hey Michael in your videos you show on the 2208's going option 3 the uart. you show X,Y,Z,EO for wiring extensions...where do I plug in E1? mks gen-l board running dual extrusion on my ender3. thanks in advance!

Jason Kohn

Thanks Michael, I tried a couple different pins and swapped drivers and on Prontoface I only see my X,Y,Z,E0. E1 shows up but all 0’s. I currently have them on tx-4 and rx-5. I moved my filament runout to pin 6 from 4 so I could keep the E1 on the same servo(if that matters). I double checked configuration_h and config_adv.h,,,all seems correct. Any thoughts?

Teaching Tech

I guess since it is already assigned as a servo, you may need to comment out the servo define in the ramps pins file.