Anet A8 extruder thermo-sensor settings

Flid

Hello!
I've got an old Anet A8 printer with no-name red Melzi v2 board. I've downloaded the official firmware, flashed, it works, but I want more flexibility and the newest version of Repetier! So I've downloaded the latest one (0.92.8), used online tool to configure it, flashed, and it sort of works... everything except extruder thermistor.
So, what we have:
* Thermistor works with the default firmware (tried to flash it again, still works, and doesn't work with Repetier). So the thermistor and mother-board both work, it's just a configuration issue.
* Thermistor is just the same as heatbed's one (type 1), which works fine in both firmwares.
* I've tried dozen of different options for thermistor type in config. It always shows either 0.0 or def.
* Tried to replace thermistor just in case - nothing changed.
* I've checked the board, the resistors for both heatbed and extruder thermistor are the same - 4.7k

I'm running out of ideas. What can cause this problem, what am I missing?

Repetier

0/def is when no thermistor is connected. So since you checked the type it most likely that you selected the wrong pin number.

Flid

Good point... Menzi v2 schematics says it's ADC7 pin, that's what I have in configs. Should I just try other ADC pins (7 of them total)? Can't it be harmful for the board?

Repetier

Don't think making a output input does any harm as inputs are just high ohm input. Have you set it explicitly to Analog input 7 or used Tempsonsor 0/1/2?

Flid

Hm... makes sense.
I've just used TEMP_0_PIN for extruder thermistor, which is set to 7 in pins.h for my board, which matches the schema I found here http://reprap.org/mediawiki/images/7/7d/Melzi-circuit.png.<br/>I'll try other ADCs (there are just 7 of them on ATMega1284p according to datasheet) in the evening.
Thanks for help!

Flid

Didn't work :(
I've tried all pins - 0 to 7. It's def for all pins except 6 (heatbed thermistor, works fine).
Setting TEMP_1_PIN to 7 gives def for bed temperature. Setting TEMP_0_PIN to 6 gives good readings for extruder, but that's not what I want.
Any other ideas? What other settings could affect it? What else can I try? I'm completely lost.

Repetier

Ok, there is one other thing. Lets assume 7 would be the right pin. That analog pin has also a digital pin id which is most likely not 7, see melzi doc. If some other part of firmware is configured to use this pin as output it will not work as input and also return nonsense when reading input. So check your config for anything using the digital output pin.

You can also run
M105 X0
to see the raw output measured which is between 0 and 4095. You should be a few 100 away from these edges or you get def.

Flid

Thanks for your help, but still no luck.
Basically I've copied the latest git repo (master), uploaded boards/Zonestar P802M/Configuration.h to online wizard, modified some stuff, put the config file back and compiled. So the problem can be only in Configuration.h (and pins.h).
I've checked every single line in the config - neither 7 or 33 is not found anywhere.

Here's my config file. The rest of the files

Any ideas, what else can I try?

Of course I can just upload the original firmware, but I don't like it, and I've spent 3 evenings to burn a bootloader to the board, I can't just give up :)

Flid

Ah, I know what can be wrong!
I couldn't compile the code initially because of two places in Commans.cpp - lines 1616 and 1953 have INPUT_PULLUP, which is undefined for some reason. Quick googling suggested to just set it to 2, and that's what I did.
Should I fix it somehow else? Can it be the case?

Repetier

Thats for M42 and M226 which has nothing to with your problem if you do not call these gcodes.

You should also check in pins.h if any symbolic name refers to 7/33 which is the last idea I have.

You could of course write a simple sketch reading pin 7 and writing result to serial to see if you are hunting the right one. Since this sketch sets definetly no other pins it is good test for pin number.

Flid

Genius! Of course! I can just read pins 6 and 7 and check if the circuit is functional. Thanks for the great idea, I'll try later.
I checked pins.h. All places mentioning 7 or 22 are inside other boards' definitions, so should not affect me.