So my #Re-Arm came in today duely installed on the FB2020 Harlequin and is now being tested. I’m not showing the back of the printer at the moment as it’s a bit of a Rat’s nest. First impressions are thst movements are noticibly smoother and less jerky compared to the Arduino. It also is a lot quieter, admittedly I turned down the voltage on X&Y but Z and the extruder motors are pretty much silent now. I’m still trying to work out the firmware configs properly and can’t exactly get my extruder retractions and movements fast enough for the Hydra Dual extrusion splitter yet (needs to be around 170mm/s for the intial retract/re-insert/retract). I may have also derped, soending about 2 hours replacing the fan MOSFET & swapping out the RAMPS for a new one due to the layer fan.not working, last thing I did is check the firmware to discover I hadn’t set the fan module to true… you live and learn. I’ve also added custom GCode scripts to the LCD menu, but some don’t work, I need to work out why. Finally, one thing I’m missing from Marlin is M0 - wait for user input as it’s part of my levelling script, which currently doesn’t work correctly and I need to work out tge quirk of M80 needing to be used twice to switch the printer on, it seems to hit reset/kill and then recovers on the first press, 2nd keeps the power on. All things to iron ou, initial impressions are really good, though. Many thanks to @Roy_Cortes and the Panucatt team for getting this out there.
I wholeheartedly believe Smoothieware makes drivers quieter than Marlin. Proper motion control.
Oh yes. Just waiting on the print to cool now. Think I was running a little hot, but a cursory inspection with the print on the bed it looks pretty good.
Not worth it on the Re-ARM as you can’t set the Digipots as the RAMPS doesn’t support it. I chose my drivers before I chose the board on the AX-02, and bought them it was a bit late to realise I could have bundled the Panucatt ones in with the X5 Mini, I’ll be picking up some from them at some point for it.