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by lemaru
Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:08 am
Forum: Geeetech I3 Pro B
Topic: GT2560 board fried and blown steppers
Replies: 2
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Re: GT2560 board fried and blown steppers

Looks like I found my issue. My heater cartridge appears to be shorted to its outer casing, so although it works, it also causes the whole hot end to go +12v.

Guessing the thermister then shorted to the block, hence the pop and spark, and then blew U2, and all the steppers and possibly other stuff ...
by lemaru
Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:32 pm
Forum: Geeetech I3 Pro B
Topic: GT2560 board fried and blown steppers
Replies: 2
Views: 4313

GT2560 board fried and blown steppers

Hi,

I had an issue yesterday. I was just about to level the bed, and there was a little "pop" noise, a small flash and smell of burning. Upon inspection is appears U2 on my GT2560 board is fried, particularly pin2 (VIn). The fuses didn't blow and it was continuing to get hot and smoke so was glad I ...