E3D firmware update for Printrboard (Page 2 of 4)

You'll get it eventually, in the meantime just think about how much you're learning

I've read around and looked though the firmware files and my best guess is that it is a pin assignment issue in the pins.h file, since I have looked though all the configuration file and saw no where to enable/disable a heated bed, and the z-motor is on the second board. Does anyone know of a firmware file more tuned to this solidoodle platform, or where I could find some pin numbering schematics to aid me? I dont know much about reading the pins on a board but I can look that up.

Thank you! One of my coworkers had the idea to find the firmware from Solidoodle and I used this to set up my configuration.h and pins.h pages in the firmware, with proper modifications made for the E3D. I now have control over my z-motor just heated bed control. I'll keep digging around!

Can do! This was a total shot in the dark but seemed to have worked. I thought that maybe the issue was because the board was designed to utilize three heaters and, since I'm using only a single extruder, the second heater being controlled is the bed. I read about issue where a faulty thermistor on the second heater could cause an error to be thrown that would kill the bed heater. So I took the thermistor for the bed and connected it onto the board in place of where my second extruder would have been. This immediately popped up with the bed control and the thermistor and heater behaved properly. I may be wrong about the issue, but I think this fix is working

Going to do a test print and make sure all is well, but its looking good so far. I can send you a file with the firmware that I updated if you'd like, through a PM or email whichever is easiest on here.

Back again, with the last question this time (hopefully lol). I need to set my new z-offset but the old g-code command I used doesn't seem to work. I was using M851 previously, but this may not be the case for the new firmware. Any idea where to poke around to find this info?

You'll want to set z offset in your slice profile but I just run mine at zero and set the bed height accordingly.  If you are wanting to use auto level then you need to enable that in the configuration.h and set it up there.

After flashing the firmware that I posted above, connecting to Repetier-Host, the log tells me...

14:11:24.143 : FIRMWARE_NAME:RepetierVirtualPrinter FIRMWARE_URL:https://github.com/repetier/Repetier-Firmware/ PROTOCOL_VERSION:1.0 MACHINE_TYPE:Mendel EXTRUDER_COUNT:1 REPETIER_PROTOCOL:1

The instructions on page 1 of this thread mention that it should read "MACHINE_TYPE:Solidoodle", but mine reads "MACHINE_TYPE:Mendel".
I swear I changed line Configuration.h properly (my edited version is attached).
Is it correct to read "Mendel" instead of "Solidoodle" with this most recent firmware?

So. I have a dual extruder Workbench printer. I installed both ed3 with a newly printed 3d mount (from thingverse). I also followed the instructions word for word on updating the firmware. Now in repiter host (with the updated firmware) it says my solidoodle only has 1 extruder. My question, what line in the arduino code do I have to change for dual extruders?

You'll need to define the number of extruders on this line as 2

Then you'll need to change the temp sensors to 5

You'll also need to change MAX TEMP for both to 290

Lastly if you haven't devised a way to extend your auto level probe, you'll need to comment out the auto level by placing "//"
in front of this line.

Hope that helps

What version of Marlin are you using?