I have finally received my RAMPS-FD from Geetech. My observations so far are:
- It's a bit dirty and missing jumpers (particularly for microstep configuration), as was observed by Dust. No pins were bent.
- Bed heater (D8) and first two extruder heaters (D9, D10) work (haven't tested D11). I've installed a heatsink to the bed mosfet (the one from RAMPS). It's running pretty cool; heatsink temperature slightly above 50C. Compare that to >100C for my RAMPS1.4 without a fan.
- FET5 and FET6 work. HOWEVER, they are fully activated in the default state of the respective pins on the MCU (I think it's high impedance). This pretty bad; my fans go crazy every time I reprogram the chip (they're very powerful, and normally only run at 15%).
- The first 5 steppers work (I don't have a sixth driver).
- X-min, Y-min, Y-max, Z-max work.
- Z-min does NOT work; it always reads as closed. I'm fairly confident it's a problem with the board because the same setup except for the RAMPS-FD worked before. Don't know about X-max.
- THERM0-THERM2 work (haven't tested THERM3).
- It's a bit dirty and missing jumpers (particularly for microstep configuration), as was observed by Dust. No pins were bent.
- Bed heater (D8) and first two extruder heaters (D9, D10) work (haven't tested D11). I've installed a heatsink to the bed mosfet (the one from RAMPS). It's running pretty cool; heatsink temperature slightly above 50C. Compare that to >100C for my RAMPS1.4 without a fan.
- FET5 and FET6 work. HOWEVER, they are fully activated in the default state of the respective pins on the MCU (I think it's high impedance). This pretty bad; my fans go crazy every time I reprogram the chip (they're very powerful, and normally only run at 15%).
- The first 5 steppers work (I don't have a sixth driver).
- X-min, Y-min, Y-max, Z-max work.
- Z-min does NOT work; it always reads as closed. I'm fairly confident it's a problem with the board because the same setup except for the RAMPS-FD worked before. Don't know about X-max.
- THERM0-THERM2 work (haven't tested THERM3).