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        <title>How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
        <description> Is there a PWM solution that can turn on the fan when the stepper drivers power up?

To provide some cooling, I&#039;d like to put a small fan near the board to get some air circulating, it only needs to run when the stepper drivers are on.
PWM would be very hand in this case, then I can set it to 50% or so, whereas now if I hook up the fan it will be on  full speed all the time which is noisy.
I&#039;m using an solid state relay for the heatbed which runs off a spare arduino pin, freeing up one of the ramps1.4 mosfets for the extra fan.</description>
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            <title>Re: How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,584817,585251#msg-585251</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Is it possible to set a PWM value for the FAN_BOARD_PIN?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>TTN</dc:creator>
            <category>Repetier</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:58:16 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,584817,585208#msg-585208</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I can't find it in configuration.h (got it from github) I'll just define it in configuration.h and that should do the trick. :) <br />
<br />
Thanks!<br />
<br />
EDIT: worked :)]]></description>
            <dc:creator>TTN</dc:creator>
            <category>Repetier</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:33:08 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,584817,585006#msg-585006</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ #define FAN_BOARD_PIN yourpinnumber<br />
<br />
should do. In config tool it is in features section.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>repetier</dc:creator>
            <category>Repetier</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:30:37 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,584817,584975#msg-584975</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Thanks!<br />
<br />
Though I can't seem to find the setting in configuration.h<br />
Is it in configuration.h or where should I look?<br />
<br />
For future googlers who come looking here this may also be of interest/use to you:<br />
[<a href="https://github.com/repetier/Repetier-Firmware/issues/16" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">github.com</a>]<br />
[<a href="http://captain-slow.dk/2011/10/28/sprinter-m42/" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">captain-slow.dk</a>]]]></description>
            <dc:creator>TTN</dc:creator>
            <category>Repetier</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:33:34 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,584817,584873#msg-584873</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ There is a board fan pin that does exactly that. It assumes only when printing we need cooling so it turns fan off when motors are off.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>repetier</dc:creator>
            <category>Repetier</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:25:18 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,584817,584818#msg-584818</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I did lots of googling and I searched this subforum but I didn't find what I was looking for.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>TTN</dc:creator>
            <category>Repetier</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:06:52 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>How to turn on fan when stepper drivers turn on?</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,584817,584817#msg-584817</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Is there a PWM solution that can turn on the fan when the stepper drivers power up?<br />
<br />
To provide some cooling, I'd like to put a small fan near the board to get some air circulating, it only needs to run when the stepper drivers are on.<br />
PWM would be very hand in this case, then I can set it to 50% or so, whereas now if I hook up the fan it will be on  full speed all the time which is noisy.<br />
I'm using an solid state relay for the heatbed which runs off a spare arduino pin, freeing up one of the ramps1.4 mosfets for the extra fan.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>TTN</dc:creator>
            <category>Repetier</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:04:55 -0500</pubDate>
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