2nd Hotend temp issue

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I have a Temp issue and not sure where to trouble shoot. This is on a MKS SBase V1.3 board (I know but I could not find a smoothie board in stock when I was looking to buy ), flashed with the January 2017 Edge firmware with a December 2016 Config File. Running Windows 10. I have formatted the SD Card last night as a precaution. I also have network enabled.

Recently I decided to connect my 2nd hot end. This is a brand new E3D V6. Hot end 1 is also a E3D V6.
Hot end #2 does not display the correct temperature in Repetier. Reads 100.00C if the thermistor cable is plugged in or not.
I have swapped the thermistor cables between HE1 and HE2 and the temperature does register as expected except the one plugged into hotend2.
I changed the pin configuration between the heated bed, hot end 1 and hot end 2. All registered except hotend 2.
Currently Heated Bed is Pin .23, Hot end 1 Pin .24 Hot end 2 Pin .25

I must be missing something in my Configuration file… Can someone double check?

[[code]]
## Temperature control configuration

  1. First hotend configuration

temperature_control.hotend.enable true # Whether to activate this ( "hotend" ) module at all.
# All configuration is ignored if false.
temperature_control.hotend.thermistor_pin 0.24 # Pin for the thermistor to read
temperature_control.hotend.heater_pin 2.7 # Pin that controls the heater, set to nc if a readonly thermistor is being defined
temperature_control.hotend.thermistor Semitec # removed link…
#temperature_control.hotend.beta 4066 # or set the beta value
temperature_control.hotend.set_m_code 104 #
temperature_control.hotend.set_and_wait_m_code 109 #
temperature_control.hotend.designator T #
temperature_control.hotend.max_temp 270 # Set maximum temperature - Will prevent heating above 300 by default
#temperature_control.hotend.min_temp 0 # Set minimum temperature - Will prevent heating below if set

  1. safety control is enabled by default and can be overidden here, the values show the defaults

#temperature_control.hotend.runaway_heating_timeout 900 # max is 2040 seconds, how long it can take to heat up
#temperature_control.hotend.runaway_cooling_timeout 900 # max is 2040 seconds, how long it can take to cool down if temp is set lower
#temperature_control.hotend.runaway_range 20 # Max setting is 63°C

#temperature_control.hotend.p_factor 13.7 # permanently set the PID values after an auto pid
#temperature_control.hotend.i_factor 0.097 #
#temperature_control.hotend.d_factor 24 #

#temperature_control.hotend.max_pwm 64 # max pwm, 64 is a good value if driving a 12v resistor with 24v.

  1. Second hotend configuration

temperature_control.hotend2.enable true # Whether to activate this ( "hotend" ) module at all.
# All configuration is ignored if false.
temperature_control.hotend2.thermistor_pin 0.25 # this was 0.25 Pin for the thermistor to read
temperature_control.hotend2.heater_pin 2.6 # This was 1.23 Pin that controls the heater
temperature_control.hotend2.thermistor Semitec # removed link…
#temperature_control.hotend2.beta 4066 # or set the beta value
temperature_control.hotend2.set_m_code 104 #
temperature_control.hotend2.set_and_wait_m_code 109 #
temperature_control.hotend2.designator T1 #

temperature_control.hotend2.max_temp 270 # Set maximum temperature - Will prevent heating above 300 by default
#temperature_control.hotend2.min_temp 0 # Set minimum temperature - Will prevent heating below if set

#temperature_control.hotend2.p_factor 13.7 # permanently set the PID values after an auto pid
#temperature_control.hotend2.i_factor 0.097 #
#temperature_control.hotend2.d_factor 24 #

#temperature_control.hotend2.max_pwm 64 # max pwm, 64 is a good value if driving a 12v resistor with 24v.
[[/code]]

Imported from wikidot

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Hey.

For help with MKS SBASE, we request that you first contact MKS for help.
They are hurting the project they should at least do their own customer support.
If/once they are not able to help you, you are welcome to come back here and ask again.

Thanks.

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I did sent them a email. I don’t expect a response. However I do think this is a configuration issue and not hardware. I just can’t figure it out.

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This could be a corrupted SD card, we have had many reports of MKS using counterfeit SD cards and they are known to cause this sort of problems.
Could you try another SD card you have at your place, with the latest firmware, and starting from the example config file on the wiki, only changing strictly what is required to get the second hotend to work ?

It’s pretty sad you don’t even expect a response. It matches what we know of them, but you have to understand, they have no respect for the hard work of the volunteers in this project, but on top of that they rely on those volunteers to do their support for them. Parasites.

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Arthurwolf thanks for your help. Is there a place where $$ can be donated towards the project?
I once worked for a overseas based company. They didn’t care about about anything except how much money they could make, the parent company even screwed over the US based division without any remorse. My name as well as a couple others was left off a patent and the owners name was put included… Someone who never worked on the project. Sucks…

I figured out the configuration problem.

Original Configuration was this.
temperature_control.hotend.designator T
temperature_control.hotend2.designator T1

When I changed to:
temperature_control.hotend.designator T0
temperature_control.hotend2.designator T1

The temperature now registers in Repetier

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Hey.

For donations there’s a paypal thing on the smoothieware.org home page you can use. We are more looking for help with documentation, coding, pcb design, etc though, donations are not a priority, and the thing about refusing to help MKS with their support definitely has nothing to do with looking for donations, it’s just about not helping them destroy the Smoothie project.

I’m glad you got it to work in the config.

7

I have to ask is Roy Cortes / Panucatt Devices new Re-Arm for Ramps helping smoothieboard / Smoothieware?

Amazingly I got a response from China…It went to the junk mail folder most likely because of the email address…
Unfortunately his help didn’t help.
King <king@makerbase.com.cn>

Dear sir, good day to you.
I’m King from Makerbase.
Reading your mail, I have some advice to you.
“temperature_control.hotend2.thermistor Semitec # removed link…” change into “temperature_control.hotend.thermistor EPCOS100K”, then run repetier to read the tempurature again to see whether it’s normal. If you have 12864 display, you can connect it and observe whether the tempurature between the 12864 and Repetier is the same.

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Panucatt does Open-Hardware boards, which is a very good start. They also send free hardware to contributors from time to time. They plan on helping a bit with the new web interfaces projects we have too, which is very appreciated. They definitely don’t contribute as much as Robotseed or Uberclock which are very integrated with the Smoothie project’s development, but in a world where we have things like MKS I’m definitely not going to complain about a company like Panucatt ( except maybe I’d like it if we heard less complaints about their customer support/documentation ).