Wiring the printer
CAUTION: Never plug in or unplug motors or heaters from your Duet board when the power is on.
Especially with the motors, you risk damaging the motor driver chip, and rendering the whole Duet board useless.
This includes unplugging the motor end of the loom, too.
A good rule is to ALWAYS turn off the power when connecting or disconnecting ANYTHING from the board.
Especially with the motors, you risk damaging the motor driver chip, and rendering the whole Duet board useless.
This includes unplugging the motor end of the loom, too.
A good rule is to ALWAYS turn off the power when connecting or disconnecting ANYTHING from the board.
NOTE: You may have received the Y axis endstop wires and the Hot End fan wires with a 2-way housing. It should be a 3-way housing on each of these, with the centre connector unused. However, you can remove one crimp from the housing (lift the little tab on the housing and pull out the wire and crimp) and plug it into the board directly; the image below shows we have done this on the hot end fan.
Wiring the Duet
Connect each loom as per the diagram shown:
Pay particular attention when connecting the hot end heater and hot end thermistor connectors. If you put them in the wrong place, 12V can run down the 3.3V line of the thermistor, and will immediately destroy the main processor. We regard this mistake as a user error, and is NOT covered by the warranty. Also take care with the Extruder motor and proximity sensor connections
NOTE: From firmware 0.78 (3rd July 2014), the pin the proximity sensor uses has changed. On EXPANSION header, it has moved from the 9th pin from the right, bottom row, to the 6th pin from the right, bottom row. The diagram and picture below has been updated to reflect this.
NOTE: that the order of the X motor wires are reversed compared to the Y, Z and Extruder motors. If you plug the X axis in the same as the other axes, the direction of movement of the X axis will be wrong.