V0 Electronics Cooling Fan

[rynfox13]

I noticed my V0.1 was getting a few problems with overheating so I decided to do something about it. I made a fan duct using a 24V 3010 blower fan and a small circuit board to control it This seems to work quite well so far in my testing.

I am releasing this modification under GPLv3 in the hopes that it'll help others in the future.

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Which mods/configurations/profiles are added by this PR?

• printer_mods/kaze/voron0-pi-fan - A little blower fan (and ducting) to add cooling to the electronics bay of a V0.1.

How was it tested?

It is installed and running on V0.1084, complete with the recommended configuration values.

Any background context you want to provide?

This is to hopefully encourage airflow in the electronics bay of the V0.1, as I noticed I was getting temperature warnings in Fluidd.

Screenshots (if appropriate)

Further notes

This includes a custom circuit board because I could not find extra GPIOs on the MCU. The circuit board can be ordered from JLCPCB complete with the surface-mount components. Unfortunately, this uses EasyEDA for the circuit design, as I could not figure out how to get KiCad to export the BOM and Pick&Place files for the surface mount components.

[cbc02009]

Need to find someone else to validate the gerbers.

[ademuri]

FYI, I use KiCAD, and use this process to generate the BOM and P&P files for JLC PCB assembly - it works great.

[rynfox13]

FYI, I use KiCAD, and use this process to generate the BOM and P&P files for JLC PCB assembly - it works great.

Thanks! I'll check this out in the future!

[VinnyCordeiro]

FYI, I use KiCAD, and use this process to generate the BOM and P&P files for JLC PCB assembly - it works great.

Since I've migrated to KiCad 6.0 I started making heavy use of its plugin feature, and I highly recommend this one - https://github.com/Bouni/kicad-jlcpcb-tools - to automatize the production of all the necessary files to order from JLCPCB.

[rynfox13]

Good to know. I don't want to go back and redo my PCB files as this one is completely tested and lives on my Voron-0. If I redo them, I'd need to get new PCBs and redo the build.

[VinnyCordeiro]

You don't need to redo your PCBs, KiCad 6.0 is backward compatible. However, once you save a project on 6.0, you can't open it anymore on version 5.

[rynfox13]

You don't need to redo your PCBs, KiCad 6.0 is backward compatible. However, once you save a project on 6.0, you can't open it anymore on version 5.

I was meaning the EasyEDA PCB code in this PR. I don't want to redo the work in KiCAD when it was done and works from EasyEDA.

[VinnyCordeiro]

You don't need to redo your PCBs, KiCad 6.0 is backward compatible. However, once you save a project on 6.0, you can't open it anymore on version 5.

I was meaning the EasyEDA PCB code in this PR. I don't want to redo the work in KiCAD when it was done and works from EasyEDA.

Oh, my bad. (There's a github repo with code for an EasyEDA to KiCad conversion, but it only works with the PCB, it does not translates the schematics, so I find it less useful.)

[jlas1]

The only issue i can see on the STL's is the fan_housing.stl touching the bed with a curved surface, should be changed to make sure that there is no angle lower than 45 degrees touching the bed.

[FHeilmann]

Since there was no response to the reviewers requests for quite some time, I'm closing this as stale for now.

[rynfox13]

Sorry! Life happened and I completely forgot about this. I'll make the fixes probably tomorrow and make a new PR.