Question Manta M8P printer.cfg issues [SPI/UART]

[silverfields1]

Hello all. I'm working on a 2.4 kit, and I have the Manta M8P board, with the CB1. I have four BTT TMC2209 drivers for the Z motors, and the BTT TMC2240 drivers for the A&B motors. I'm wanting the use the 2240 on the A/B to see if they provide better performance.

I'm trying to get an initial take of my printer config file created so that I can get Klipper to run. I'm not yet trying to test any of the hardware, just getting Klipper running with no errors.

I've done a lot of reading, and gone over the Bigtree Tech docs, but I'm not understanding it all, and a lot seems to be missing. For reference, these are the documents I'm using:

• The Manta ver 1.1 pin out image
• The VORON Design M8P wiring guide
• The Klipper3D config reference for the TMC2240
• The VORON Design example M8P 1.0 printer.cfg

First issue is, I can see in the example cfg file the values PE2, PB4, PC11, PF3 are all referenced in the [stepper_x] section with PC10 referenced in the [tmc2209 stepper_x] section. In the pin out image, I do see PF3 in the end stops, and I see the other pins in the green box with the blue last row in the M1 column. Fine. But what about for SPI? It looks like in the on the TMC2240 Product Page that the driver only works in SPI mode, not UART. I do not know why this is, and the driver chip itself does support UART. So do I need to just use the CS pin for the part_pin: entry in the tmc2209 sections, and also for the cs_pin: entry in the tmc2240 sections, with the actual stepper section the same either way?

The second issue is, are the TMC2240 on an SPI bus, or addressed individually? The config reference shows entries for sclk, mosi, and miso pins, and in the pin out image I do see I the top blue box those listed, so are they the same for every TMC2240 entry in the config file?

Does anyone have an example of TMC2240 usage?

Any help appreciated!

 

[silverfields1]

Thanks for all the great responses.

I'll update this myself, as I did get it to work. There are no issues using both the tmc2209 & the tmc2240. And the tmc2240 are surprisingly quieter, even with the same motors. So that's something. Here is the tmc2240 stepper_x config from my printer config file:

[tmc2240 stepper_x] cs_pin: x_cs_pin spi_software_sclk_pin: SCLK spi_software_mosi_pin: MOSI spi_software_miso_pin: MISO interpolate: false run_current: 1.0 stealthchop_threshold: 0

I have aliased my pins to make it a bit easier. The only thing that really surprised me was the need for the spi_software_* lines; the documentation make it seem if this were only for software SPI, not hardware. But I'm sure I just misunderstood it.

Another thing to note is that the tmc2240 drivers will show up under the temperature monitoring section of klipper web UI, but they will not show actual values until the motors are turned on (by homing for example).

 

[Skautik]

I have TMC5160 which is SPI too. I didnt want to use software SPI too, and after some searching and thinking i got them working on HW SPI.

I guess there are some HW issues on MCU board so you have to tell at what speed SPI should run. ( impedance of PCB tracks and this kind of black magic )
3.5MHz looks stable for me

[tmc5160 stepper_x]
cs_pin: PC10
spi_bus: spi1
spi_speed: 3500000

But i run into issues when i tried to use SPI pins on board - connected them on cable to connector in skirt for use from outside of printer (ADXL )

 

[FernandoT]

Hi Silverfields1 I am trying to accomplish the same (getting klipper initial setup) with a similar combination.

Also a Voron 2.4 350x350x350
Manta M8P v1.1CanBus EBB2209/RP20240
6 x TMC2240
1x TMC2209 (extruder)

I was wondering if you are willing to share your printer.cfg so I can use it to reverse engineer stuff and see if I can figure out how my setup should be.
Documentation on TMC2240 and EBB 2209/RP2040 seems to be very limited, but maybe I am just missing something.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.