Main board fried?

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Oxalainen
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Main board fried?

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Alrighty then... Did I, or did I not just fry the main board in my Artillery Sidewinder X2?

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I've been struggling with nozzle swap in this particular machine for couple of weeks already, this Artillery seems to be especially finicky with nozzle swaps and I constantly did it wrong. Today I finally got new PTFE tube (along with actual tube clippers to get perfectly cut end on the tube) and after having cleaned the heat block mounting hole with thread tap, I was sure I'll get the nozzle flush with heat break and PTFE tube.

But, as I was heating up the hotend for final tightening, I swear I saw a mild puff of smoke coming from the vent of the bed frame -where main board sits. After that the nozzle temp started dropping by itself. Soon after that the machine restarted itself, a few times. I shut everything off for a minute, then switched back on. The screen went bonkers, showing half of the selected menu and half main menu. I noticed the cooling fan was also out, so I swapped into spare one. Now the machine booted fine, I even got to level the bed, but once I started loading filament, the nozzle temp reached 200C but again started dropping by itself.

Fortunately, new main board isn't expensive. I'm just annoyed by the fact that I probably need to wait a month before receiving one, as Artillery's service isn't exactly the fastest around. I might be able to score one off Amazon too, but at noticeably higher cost.

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Re: Main board fried?

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Found this on a Reddit page:
I've had this same issue. I did some trouble shooting from changing thermistor to making sure all cables are not damaged and plugged in. To even changing the entire hotend with another printers head. I spent hours trying to figure this problem out. I got in contact with support, and they sent me a semi detailed list of things to check next. I can send you the email with the instructions. After doing everything I used a multi meter to determine that a mosfet chip on my mainboard went bad. Which is an issue on older X2's with the ruby main board 1.0. So in short the fix for me was a new mainboard.


Other people mention a thermistor failed (more likely a thermocouple).

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