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stepstick overheat

cornfield

stepstick overheat
October 26, 2016 06:57AM

Registered: 7 years ago
Posts: 2

Hi
I just built my first prusa i3 (Geeetech) and have ramps 1/4 with drv8825 stepstick on the ext motor wich overheats.
I was told to turn the screw counter clockwise to reduce the heat... I did that and it still overheats...
any help would be appreciated

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Veesta

Re: stepstick overheat
October 26, 2016 10:18AM

Registered: 8 years ago
Posts: 165

Get a multimeter and measure the voltage from top of the potentiometer and ground.
around 0.5V probably works. Maybe more, but that is a good starting point.

Add a cooling fan to stepper drivers / Whole RAMPS board.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2016 10:19AM by Veesta.

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cornfield

Re: stepstick overheat
October 26, 2016 04:38PM

Registered: 7 years ago
Posts: 2

thanks might be a while until i find a multimeter

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Roger123D

Re: stepstick overheat
October 30, 2016 11:20PM

Registered: 8 years ago
Posts: 195

The 8825 should have a small aluminum heat sink on it. Being warm or even hot is not a problem the whole little board is a heatsink and if it aint smoking and still working forget about it!