Taz 6 with Duet Wifi board and BL-Touch

Just wanted to post this quick video I took of my Taz 6 which is now running off a Duet Wifi Mainboard, a Pitan extruder available on thingiverse and a BL-Touch for bed leveling. It’s amazing how much quieter the printer is due to the higher microstepping from the Duet Wifi board. The printer is now controlled right from my PC using a web interface and wifi.

I’m working on modifying the titan Aero mount that Itworks3d offers to work with this Pitan extruder since I would rather the single 5015 blower fan. I wanted to print reliably with 1.75mm filament so that I can share it between both my printers and this was the simplest solution I thought. I am putting together a similar extruder that will accept 2.85mm filament as well so I can just swap it easily and use both on the printer.

Here’s a short video showing how quiet my printer is now.

Also a big shoutout to Lulzbot for sending me replacement leadscrews for my printer. One of them had a bad wobble to it which was making some bad banding on my prints…it’s all good now that I replaced it.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHE7XXk6njs[/youtube]

Nice work!

Super quiet!

I’ve always wondered about changing the board. I have a duet wifi on my Delta. Nice job.

Thanks. I was a bit worried the wireless would have an issue inside the metal control box but I haven’t had any issues with reception. I may still design and print a plate to go where the stock display is since it’s not in use any longer.

Any chance you could do a bit of a write on the process for this? I’d love to upgrade the board but I’m not sure about mounting, wiring, or the firmware and haven’t found a good resource to start figuring it out.

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I’m looking to replace my blown Rambo board on my Taz 5. Any how to guides out there on how to swap to the duet 2?

i realize i’m coming late to the party but yeah, +1, can you do a short writeup? i see boards for cheap…

Or at least share the config file? Thanks!

My Taz 6 is long gone at this point so I can’t really help with any sort of write up. I kept having Z problems and couldn’t fix the issue. I did the conversion just on the fly not taking any notes. As for the config I do still have a backup of that and will paste it below.

; Configuration file for Duet WiFi (firmware version 1.21)
; executed by the firmware on start-up
;
; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v2 on Sat Jan 12 2019 00:16:01 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

; General preferences
G90                                         ; Send absolute coordinates...
M83                                         ; ...but relative extruder moves

; Network
M550 P"Taz-6"                               ; Set machine name
M552 S1                                        ; Enable network
M586 P0 S1                                  ; Enable HTTP
M586 P1 S0                                  ; Disable FTP
M586 P2 S0                                  ; Disable Telnet

; Drives
M569 P0 S1                                  ; Drive 0 goes forwards
M569 P1 S0                                  ; Drive 1 goes backwards
M569 P2 S1                                  ; Drive 2 goes forwards
M569 P3 S0                                  ; Drive 3 goes backwards
M350 X16 Y16 Z16 E16 I1                     ; Configure microstepping with interpolation 
M92 X100.50 Y100.50 Z1600 E846.90           ; Set steps per mm 
M566 X500.00 Y400.00 Z150.00 E1500.00        ; Set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 X8400.00 Y8400.00 Z250.00 E10000.00    ; Set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 X1000.00 Y900.00 Z250.00 E1500.00      ; Set accelerations (mm/s^2)
M906 X1200.00 Y1200.00 Z1200.00 E960.00 I30 ; Set motor currents (mA) and motor idle factor in per cent
M84 S30                                     ; Set idle timeout

; Axis Limits
M208 X-9 Y0 Z0 S1                        ; Set axis minima
M208 X300 Y300 Z250 S0                      ; Set axis maxima

; Endstops
M574 X1 Y1 S1                               ; Set active high endstops

; Z-Probe
M574 Z1 S2                                  ; Set endstops controlled by probe
M307 H3 A-1 C-1 D-1                         ; Disable heater on PWM channel for BLTouch
M558 P9 H5 F120 T6000                       ; Set Z probe type to bltouch and the dive height + speeds
G31 P500 X36 Y0 Z3.24                       ; Set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger height 
M557 X40:260 Y40:260 S40                    ; Define mesh grid

; Heaters
M305 P0 T100000 B4138 R4700                 ; Set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 0
M143 H0 S120                                ; Set temperature limit for heater 0 to 120C
M305 P1 T100000 B4725 C7.060000e-8 R4700    ; Set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 1
M143 H1 S280                                ; Set temperature limit for heater 1 to 280C
M307 H1 A685.2 C235.0 D4.4 V24.2 B0	    ; Set heater calibration for hotend
M307 H0 A393.9 C936.0 D10.2 V24.1 B0        ; Disable bang-bang mode for the bed heater and set PWM limit

; Fans
M106 P0 S0 I0 F500 H-1                       ; Set fan 0 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off
M106 P1 S1 I0 F500 H1 T45                  ; Set fan 1 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned on
M106 P2 S1 I0 F500 H1 T45                   ; Set fan 2 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned on

; Tools
M563 P0 D0 H1                               ; Define tool 0
G10 P0 X0 Y0 Z0                             ; Set tool 0 axis offsets
G10 P0 R0 S0                                ; Set initial tool 0 active and standby temperatures to 0C

I Know this is a long shot but any chance you have the config.json file available im looking into upgrading my Taz 6 and it would be a little easier to with the config file