second extruder driver since June is broken

[3dCase]

I have the Spider V1.1 with TMC 2209. For the second time since I have this printer my extruder driver has gone faulty.
Coincidence or is the original setup with those 2 fans on the side only while the MCU is placed in the middle under the bed not sufficient?
Either way it cannot hurt to create better cooling but I thought I ask here what people have done and what are their experience with regards to this problem.

 

[NoGuru]

Try a different driver. 2226 are pretty cheap. I like the TMC 2240's for the built in Temp sensor.
If they are easily accessible to you.

 

[3dCase]

Try a different driver. 2226 are pretty cheap. I like the TMC 2240's for the built in Temp sensor.
If they are easily accessible to you.

And they are interchangeable without any new settings or cfg changes?
And why you suggest these, other then being cheap? I do like the temp sensor idea, even though I am not using it at the moment, not even sure if these TMC2209 have it.

 

[3dCase]

Try a different driver. 2226 are pretty cheap. I like the TMC 2240's for the built in Temp sensor.
If they are easily accessible to you.

I looked them up and basically the same but new product as replacement for the 2209. Looks like totally the same features functions and stuff. The only thing I can find that is slightly different is the voltage control which it states saves energy. This might (might as it is not a given fact) mean the driver could run slightly cooler. But it is not given as a benefit as such. Compared one for one they seem totally the same if not a little bit more expensive (at the time of the article I read).
The 2240 seem to offer slightly more in the way of diagnostics but I have not found anything yet about the temperature sensor (on BTT site). Diagnostics might be nice if you knew what you were doing exactly, and I don't, I am just a simple user

 

[Spice_King]

I looked them up and basically the same but new product as replacement for the 2209. Looks like totally the same features functions and stuff. The only thing I can find that is slightly different is the voltage control which it states saves energy. This might (might as it is not a given fact) mean the driver could run slightly cooler. But it is not given as a benefit as such. Compared one for one they seem totally the same if not a little bit more expensive (at the time of the article I read).
The 2240 seem to offer slightly more in the way of diagnostics but I have not found anything yet about the temperature sensor (on BTT site). Diagnostics might be nice if you knew what you were doing exactly, and I don't, I am just a simple user

As far as BTT is concerned it's a feature to implement on the firmware side. In Klipper, the driver just shows up as a temperature probe automatically after being told it's a TMC 2240 there.

I just enabled my Extruder stepper, so the spike is just old data that started to come back in. If I swapped all my steppers to 2240s, I could add a fan for them that's 100% controlled by the temperature of the drivers, meaning I could get Klipper to up the fan speed if they started to get hotter, or stay quieter if cool. If you have ever had overtemp errors out of the TMCs, this does let you get a warning sooner and see where the problem is better, rather than the failsafe binary pre warning and post overheat error.