Connecting the chamber heater ¶ 

Chamber heaters are typically AC mains powered, so you will need a Solid State Relay (SSR) to drive one. Use a zero-crossing DC/AC SSR such as Fotek SSR-25DA + safety cover, or Crydom D2425 + safety cover KS101. If your chamber heater draws more than about 5A then the SSR may need a heatsink.

Connecting a SSR to a heater output on the Duet, Duet Shield, DueX4 or DueX5 ¶ 

SSRs generally accept anywhere between 3V and 32V input voltage, so you can connect the SSR to the heater terminal block. Make sure you connect the + and - terminals the right way round. The + terminal on the SSR goes to the heater terminal marked + or VIN, and the - terminal pin the SSR goes to the heater terminal marked -.

Connect the thermistor that measures chamber temperature to the associated thermistor input.

Connecting a SSR directly to the expansion connector ¶ 

If you have a Duet without an expansion board and no spare heater channels, you can connect the input of the SSR directly to the expansion connector. The heater outputs of the Duet are active low, so connect the SSR - input terminal to the appropriate expansion connector pin, and connect the SSR + input terminal to +3.3V (pin 3 on the expansion connector).

You will also need a thermistor input channel to monitor the chamber temperature. If you are using a PT100 or thermocouple sensor for a hot end, then you can use the thermistor input pins that would otherwise be used for that hot end. The following applies to all Duet versions.

Configuring the chamber heater ¶ 

You will need to add a M141 command to config.g to tell the firmware that you have a chamber heater and which heater channel it uses. You will also need a M305 command to configure the temperature sensor, and a M301 command to configure the PID parameters. Here is an example:

M141 H3 ; heater 3 is the chamber heater
M305 P3 R4700 T100000 B3950 ; heater 3 is monitored by a 100K thermistor with B=3950 and a 4.7K series resistor
M301 H3 B1 ; use bang-bang control for the chamber heater

To use a different thermistor channel form the heater channel, add a suitable XS parameter to the M305 command. For example, X1 would tell the firmware to use the thermistor channel associated with heater 1 (which is normally the first extruder heater).

You can use PID control of the chamber heater if you wish. RepRapFirmware uses low frequency (10Hz) PWM on the chamber heater channel so as to be compatible with most SSRs.

Using the chamber heater ¶ 

Add the command M141 S### to your slicer start gcode, where ### is the required chamber temperature at the start. Also make sure there is a M116 command somewhere after the M141 command, to wait for all temperatures to reach their assigned values.

In your end gcode, either use the command M0 (which normally switches all heaters off), or the command M141 S0 to turn the chamber heater off.