1 Topic by Staffordknot

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Topic: Azteeg X3 pro - anyone using this with 3 or 4 extruders yet?

Hi just wondered if anyone is using this yet for 3 or 4 extruders? I have bought an e3d kraken and was hoping to use it to drive it?

I know Ian had / has one but don't know if there's firmware to support this number of extruders yet?

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Re: Azteeg X3 pro - anyone using this with 3 or 4 extruders yet?

Hi,

I picked up both a kraken and teh azteeg x3 pro. The folks here: panucatt com  can answer questions but yes it will work. It actually will work with up to 5 extruders...

The x3 pro board I have is sitting right beside me actually. It was recommended by a few different people I talked to. The board will work just fine. I'm still in the process of building my printer so I can't say i'm printing with it as of yet.

details on the x3 pro:
panucatt com / Azteeg_X3_Pro_p / ax3pro . htm

3 Reply by RTRyder (edited by RTRyder 2014-08-05 23:20:40)

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Re: Azteeg X3 pro - anyone using this with 3 or 4 extruders yet?

I currently have the X3 Pro running in a dual extruder printer. As I recall from when I was setting it up, the very latest version of Marlin can support 4 extruders but you will need to go into the code to make sure the proper settings are turned on for them to work. Most importantly you will need to check the pin assignments in Pins.H to make sure you hook things up to the correct outputs and that those outputs are configured as extruders and not for some other function. I had to make a minor change to the pin assignments to run the dual E3D V6 extruders n my printer since I already had it all wired up only to find what I thought was the output for extruder 2 was actually configured for a PWM fan in the default config. I believe the default setup assumes single extruder with fan and heated bed, you will need to tell the firmware which pins beyond the defaults are to be used for additional extruders or reorder them so the extruder outputs are sequential on the board and then have the heated bed and fan outputs next in line.

The good news is that the latest Marlin version has the Pro X3 already defined so you can just select the appropriate number for the board in Config.h. I'm also using mine with a VIKI LCD which is also fully defined and supported in the latest version so once I got the outputs configured correctly everything worked as you would expect without having to hack the code further to get the LCD working.