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Fan Troubles

Posted by Denial 
Fan Troubles
March 29, 2014 09:45AM
Starting to commission my reprappro mendel and long story short the hot end fan isn't spinning.

I'm sure i've snipped the right wire and attached the other two up correctly. Voltmeter is showing +12V running through the fan wires and the blue LED light is coming on. But it still won't spin. Given a flick a few times and it spins for a moment then stops dead. The centre motor is heating up as well.

What have I done wrong?
Re: Fan Troubles
March 29, 2014 12:26PM
Sounds like the PWM might be too low for the fan. My fan needs at least a setting of 127 to start spinning, or 50%. It can be reduced after that and keep spinning, but it needs that extra juice to get started.


MakerFarm 8" Prusa i3v
RAMPS 1.4
0.4mm E3D v6 for 1.75mm
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