Formbot T-Rex 3

Configs
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Hello!

I managed to run Klipper on my Formbot/Vivedino T-Rex 3.

Profiles-Formbot-T-Rex3.zip (8.1 KB)

There are three profiles:

  • printer-Formbot-T-Rex 3 : is a profile for a regular printer.
  • printer-Formbot-T-Rex 3-uart : is a profile for the use of TMC2209 in UART mode. The uart connection is made using the MISO/MOSI connectors on the printer board (SD card isn’t use with Klipper).
  • printer-Formbot-T-Rex 3-all : is the same as the one above with an additional z-axes (stepper_z1). You need a small stepper driver board for this. It is controlled by 3 free ports on the EXP1 connector (pins 3,4 and 5). 5V is provided by MISO/MOSI socked and 24V just near the USB socket.

If I missed some info, please tell me.

— Be careful with the 24V. It kills all 5V components instantaneously. —
I lost a printer board, 8 TMC2209 and a LCD.

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Hi, do you need to solder when using all 6 tmc 2209? Do you have any photos or indications?

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Hello!

No soldering required on the printer board.
The connections mentioned in my first are all marked on the board.

A can make images soon.

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Thanks for the anwer, i was hopping to use klipper at this machine, but there is 0 info about the vivedino 1.1 board, son dont know pins or uarts for the klipper config.
Then i think by your post that using tmc2208 It is just plug and play.
And by using tmc2209 do you need to solder to use miso mosi uart conections.
Am i right?

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I’m a bit busy these days, but I can make you a detailed plan what to do.

Do you want to go for the two seperate Z-axes drive? (Gantry Tilt)

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I im not hurry so take your time, if two Z separate drive is a great upgrade i ll go for it. I’m kinda new on 3d printing but want to learn. So i believe in your experience :sweat_smile:
Im triying to know why the bed get hot really slow and dont get more than 90º.

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I was reading a bit about tmc2209, seems like i can use them whiout connecting to uart ports, with your first config file i ll be fine while u can show me hice to Connect then to uart.
Is your mother board the vivedino 1.1?

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Hello,
I am new to the forum. I have a T-Rex 3.0 that I want to switch to Klipper. I’m still waiting for my Raspberry 4B 2Go which should arrive next weekend. I got your configuration files. Have you evolved since 2021? What advice for installing Klipper?
Thank you for your answers
Sorry for the translation, I use Google because I’m French.

Guy

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Hello,
I am looking for how to correct in the “printer.cfg” the position of the right head. The offsets in X, Y and Z relative to the left head. The parameters that were entered in the original IDEX menu of the printer.
Thanks for your comments

Guy

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Hello OxFire795,
Did you make the switch to Klipper with the T-Rex 3?
If so, everything went well and did you get the photos from EddyMI3D?
Thank you for your answers

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Sorry, but I’m lately quite busy with my job.

I’ll get the infos ASAP.

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Ok thanks, no problem. At first I will take the basic configuration.

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Here we go.

For the UART only:

VIVE_UART
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At the top you can see how to set the UART addresses.

For the UART pins on the driver boards, you have to do some changes:
The pins marked UART have to show the opposite direction:

grafik

You need to have a wire loom to connect the drivers to the UART pin:

grafik

A single UART wire is sufficient.

For the 2nd Z axes stepper:

VIVE_UART_ALL
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The pins of the EXP 1 are not used by the display.

Just connect to the connections on the mini board:

mini_board
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On the mini board set MS1 & MS2 to ON, MS3 to off.

I looks a bit clunky in my T-Rex 3 box:

grafik
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Z-axes
Align the height of the right head as even as possible to the left head. It is possible to move the hotend a bit up and down when you lose the screws on the heatsink clamp.

Y-axes
Set the offset here (Y_ADJUST):

[gcode_macro T0]
gcode:
    PARK_{printer.toolhead.extruder}
    ACTIVATE_EXTRUDER EXTRUDER=extruder
    SET_DUAL_CARRIAGE CARRIAGE=0
    SET_GCODE_OFFSET X_ADJUST=0 Y_ADJUST=0.5

X-axes
Set the offset here (position_endstop, position_endstop):
If the right head is too much to the right, reduce the value.
If it is too much to the left, increase the value.
(I hope, I did not mix the reduce/increase stuff up - it’s some time ago.)

[dual_carriage]
axis: x
step_pin: PL7
dir_pin: !PL6
enable_pin: !PL5
microsteps: 16
rotation_distance: 40
endstop_pin: PE4
position_min: 0
position_endstop: 446.25
position_max: 446.25
homing_speed: 50

I hope, I did not forget something.

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Thank you EddyMI3D for all this information. Does the UART bring a lot in terms of speed and quality or is it very limited?
Because apparently, you have to weld the Drivers and I’m not good at this…
For the correction in Y of the second head (the one on the right) we act on T0 (thus the one on the left) in the macro [gcode_macro T0]?
And no way to correct the Z axis?
Another small question, the LED light of the machine, can it also be controlled by a menu or a Mainsail button?
I hope it’s understandable what I wrote because I use Google translate.

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It’s more comfortable: Changing the motor current for example.

To my excuse: My T-Rex was delivered with TMC2208. So I upgraded and had to solder in the pins anyway.

You can do it on T1 too, but you then have to set it to 0 on T0

Should work with Z_ADJUST:

https://www.klipper3d.org/G-Codes.html#set_gcode_offset

But, when you want to do a copy or mirror print (I know it’s not possible with Klipper yet), it should be at the same height. I did it formerly with Marlin too.

I’m running OctoPrint and did it with the Enclosure Plugin and have two buttons at the frame.

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Thank you for this additional information

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Hello EddyMI3D
I allow myself to contact you, because I can’t flash the T-Rex. In Mainsail, I created the “printer.cfg” file and pasted the contents of your “printer-Formbot-T-Rex 3.cfg” file into it. by modifying the line [mcu] by mine. Then in the “Putty” console I stopped the Klipper service, then flashed, but there was no way:
sudo service klipper stop
make flash FLASH_DEVICE=/dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_AK0706Q9-
if00-port0.
Do you have a procedure that will work for me?
I installed “Mainsail OS V1.0.1-64 Bit”
Personally, I followed the following tutorials:

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Do you get an error message after make... ?

Is the USB cable proper for data transmission?

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Bonsoir,
Good evening,
No, no error message. The cable is compliant for data and I even tried a second one.

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Is it rather a command line like the following?
make flash FLASH_DEVICE=/dev/ttyUSB0

?

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Have you done the first steps too as described here:

https://www.klipper3d.org/Installation.html#building-and-flashing-the-micro-controller