So I think I’ve talked about late night dumb moves recently, and I think I just pulled another.
I grounded the two leads for my part cooling fan while things were powered up. I tried testing them afterwards and it appears as though no power is coming out of that pair. Would dead shorting the part cooling pins, burn out a component on the Azteeg x5v3?
Yeah, probably killed the small FET for those pins. It is a low current FET. So a dead short would overdrive it.
Got a hot air rework station? Feel like doing some rework?
@raykholo sorry Ray, I don’t have the equipment (or the ability, or the parts) to fix stuff at this level… stupid brain fart on my part.
Might just hard wire it into the hot end cooling fan and run them together? Or will that pull too much current?
@raykholo do you have a description of which FET would need replaced? I can have a look at least and see if I dare attempt to fix it.
Hotend cooling fan should be always on, tapping it into the part cooling fan is a bad idea.
I don’t have any Azteeg boards and the sources for that one aren’t available so there isn’t any information I can work off of.
@raykholo so then go buy a different board ?
Wait I got my fans mixed up. Is your hotend fan always on 12v?
You do want to control the part cooling fan as it should be off for first layer and varied by the slicer.
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@raykholo I’m running 24v, my hot end fan is always on. I’ve been running the part cooling full time as well with fine results.
For now I think I’ll just connect it to the 24v supply which will give me cooling at least. Hot end fan works fine.
Sorry Ray I thought you were the guy who produced/sold the Azteeg stuff.
Ray, he could steal some extra pins that are open, map part cooling to those, and use your external MOSFET board if that’s ready for sale?
@jerryflyguy perhaps you can contact @Roy_Cortes at Panucatt and see if he can do a board repair for a price?
@Eclsnowman yeah, I’ll have to log in and put a support request in through their site. If @raykholo has an external mosfet board that could be made to work. I know there are a couple free pins on one of the EXP headers for additional use.
My plan had been to buy one of the Azteeg boards which would allow me to run multiple extruders (eventually; my own Christmas present?) but don’t have the pennies right now.
I’ve hard wired the fan to the PS for now and just print the first couple layers much higher hot end temps than normal to help with adhesion… so far it’s working.
Cannot believe I did this, normally I’m pretty aware of what I’m doing but in this instance… complete brain fart. 
Sure thing. I’ll get more info about that MOSFET board up ASAP.
It’s Ray and Roy, which I find an interesting turn of events.
Panucatt Roy
Cohesion3D Ray
@raykholo thanks. I’m terrible with names… sorry 
@jerryflyguy This is Roy(Panucatt). Happened to me a couple of times already, I now remember to power down for anything I connect/disconnect unless if Im deliberately testing to destroy 
You can send it in for repair (repairs are always free) or if you are handy with the soldering iron I can send you the replacement Mosfet.
@Roy_Cortes thanks very much for the offer. Can you send me the details of what needs to be changed? I’ve fixed boards before but only in the simplest of terms. I’ll have a look and see if I dare try or not 
Thanks again Roy!!