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Expanding fans on radds for part cooling.. Can it be done with repetier firmware?

Noah410Noah410
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I'm in the process of getting my qidi dual printer switched to something other than sailfish (what a piece of proprietary trash). I want to go with radds since in need two fans that are automatically cooling the hotends. Now can I pin out an extra fan? What would I need hardware wise to drive one or two manual control fans? I saw something about a D9 pin, but what do in use from there?

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  • RepetierRepetier
    RADDS has 5 FAN/Heater outputs you can use. Having dual printer you only nead 2 heater outputs, so you have 3 outputs left to connect fans. The first 2 are then used for heaters and the next 3 are then used for fans in this order:
    #define HEATER_3_PIN     11
    #define ORIG_FAN_PIN   9 
    #define ORIG_FAN2_PIN           8 

    So use 11 and 8 for extruder cooling fan (these enable when extruder is hot) and you can use 9 for filament cooling.
  • Noah410Noah410
    Repetier said:
    RADDS has 5 FAN/Heater outputs you can use. Having dual printer you only nead 2 heater outputs, so you have 3 outputs left to connect fans. The first 2 are then used for heaters and the next 3 are then used for fans in this order:
    #define HEATER_3_PIN     11
    #define ORIG_FAN_PIN   9 
    #define ORIG_FAN2_PIN           8 

    So use 11 and 8 for extruder cooling fan (these enable when extruder is hot) and you can use 9 for filament cooling.
    Thank you! I thought I could use them since a mosfet is a mosfet and will drive anything. 
  • RepetierRepetier
    Exactly!
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