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Second extruder steps in Marlin Firmware

Posted by Ibrahim Saed 
Second extruder steps in Marlin Firmware
February 24, 2015 04:49AM
Hi

As I know in Marlin, steps/mm, max speed, and acceleration for each extruder are the same. In other words, Marlin assumes both extruders are identical.

But in my case I have 2 extruders with different stepper motor specs...
First extruder motor have 200 steps per rev. (1.8 deg/step), and second extruder motor have 400 steps per rev. (0.9 deg/step).

Now I need to make the first extruder steps half the second one!

What can I do ?!!
Re: Second extruder steps in Marlin Firmware
February 24, 2015 05:47AM
remove a micostepper jumper on extruder 2... then the steps/revolution are the same

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/24/2015 05:48AM by Dust.
Re: Second extruder steps in Marlin Firmware
February 24, 2015 12:44PM
Thanks

There are 3 jumpers on each stepper!

Can you please tell me what jumper must remove?
Re: Second extruder steps in Marlin Firmware
February 24, 2015 05:37PM
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Re: Second extruder steps in Marlin Firmware
February 24, 2015 08:59PM
well I make the assumption that the first extruder has all 3 jumpers on it so it doing 1/16 microstepping
so the second extruder needs to be set to 1/8 microstepping.

jumper Yes/No step size
1 2 3
yes yes no 1/8 step
yes yes yes 1/16 step

So you need to remove the 3rd jumper ie the blue jumper on extruder e1 in this image



And just checking the math for compleatness

extruder 0: 200 steps per revolution at 1/16 microstepping = 3200 steps per revolution
extruder 1: 400 steps per revolution at 1/8 microstepping = 3200 steps per revolution

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/24/2015 09:03PM by Dust.
Re: Second extruder steps in Marlin Firmware
February 27, 2015 04:57AM
Thanks you very much
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