{"id":362,"date":"2024-12-02T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2024-12-02T21:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:47:23","slug":"voron-repair-part-1-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/voron-repair-part-1-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Voron Repair Part 1: Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looking at Voron #3667 and it did not take very long to find that one of the stepper motor lines has a discontinuity. Somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2997-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2997-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robingingras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2997-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robingingras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2997-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robingingras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2997-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robingingras.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2997-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Testing wires for continuity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than try to replace one wire, the logical choice would be to replace the entire toolhead harness, since it&#8217;s likely to have another break at some point. However, replacing the whole wire harness would be a huge pain, and more costly than going CAN on account of the expensive wire you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve already placed an order for a <a href=\"https:\/\/kb-3d.com\/store\/controllers-displays-drivers\/793-mellow-fly-sb2040-v2-can-toolhead-pcb-for-voron-stealthburner-1674910664639.html\">Mellow Fly SB4020<\/a> CAN toolhead board and the accompanying wire harness. At first I was apprehensive about going CAN just due to the scattered nature of information I was finding, but I think I&#8217;ve managed to find enough quality procedures to do each part of the upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step will be to remove the old wiring harness in preparation for CAN. I will be sticking with the cable chains for now, but I&#8217;m currently researching the umbilical that I can always add later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at Voron #3667 and it did not take very long to find that one of the stepper motor lines has a discontinuity. Somewhere. Rather than try to replace one wire, the logical choice would be to replace the entire toolhead harness, since it&#8217;s likely to have another break at some point. However, replacing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5,29],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","tag-3d-printing","tag-voron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robingingras.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}