LED pwm pins to drive mosfets

Controllers Smoothie
1

I want to add external MOSFETS to LED1,3,4 pwm pins exposed headers of smoothieboard but these pins are used for status indication in smoothie is there any way to disable the status indication feature and use these pins as pwm

Imported from wikidot

2

You can by uncommenting the following line in the configuration file :

https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieware/blob/edge/ConfigSamples/Smoothieboard/config#L61

3

yes it helped but initially when the bootloader is active it continuously flashes leds for some time this causes the heaters to switch on off

4

Hi.

You can use other pins for this, and use the LED pins as inputs instead, this should solve your problem.

Cheers.