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Question about Gen2 Electronics & Mendel

Posted by vonslatt 
Question about Gen2 Electronics & Mendel
December 14, 2009 10:51AM
Hi Everyone,

I have a completed set of gen2 electronics and intend to build a Mendel gantry - are there any reasons why this won't work and am I correct that I'll need to start with the firmware in the Darwin build instructions?

Cheers!

Jake.
Re: Question about Gen2 Electronics & Mendel
December 14, 2009 12:24PM
I believe Gen 2 has a DC Motor driver for the extruder, but the Mendel design uses a stepper for the extruder. So, you need to replace the DC Motor driver with a 4th stepper driver. Otherwise, everything should work.
Re: Question about Gen2 Electronics & Mendel
December 14, 2009 09:16PM
>I believe Gen 2 has a DC Motor driver for the extruder.

This is correct however the DC motor board can drive two DC motors OR 1 stepper motor.

Check out [reprap.org]
and look for cool hacks section at the bottom.

regards

Stephen
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