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Like many people, I have burnt the pins in the micro-controller connected to the E0 motor - the E0 motor is not working anymore and I need to print tomorrow! I need to control the extruder motor with the working E1 pins. How do I change this in firmware?

I tried to change to the pins in `pins_RAMPS.h" but it was a complete fail, the motors that i tried to change didn't move.

I have a Arduino Mega + Ramps 1.3 in "Extruder Fan Bed" configuration, I use Repetier-Host as host and Marlin as firmware.

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    $\begingroup$ How did you find that Arduino pins were burnt? Have you tried spare motor driver? $\endgroup$
    – Mikhail Z
    Commented Dec 12, 2016 at 18:30
  • $\begingroup$ @MikhailZ Yes definitely ! I swapt the drivers to test them, and I always replace the bad drivers with new/repaired ones. $\endgroup$
    – Thundercoal
    Commented Jan 25, 2017 at 21:23
  • $\begingroup$ Changing pins_RAMPS should work. You must have done something wrong when trying it. $\endgroup$
    – Tom van der Zanden
    Commented Feb 10, 2017 at 12:34
  • $\begingroup$ To elaborate on this answer of Thomas S, a more detailed description of swapping the pins is found in this 3D.SE answer. Please vote and accept an answer (we want this community to get out of Beta stage), thanks! $\endgroup$
    – 0scar ♦
    Commented Aug 3, 2018 at 19:15

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I would change the pin assignments by swapping E0 and E1 in pins_RAMPS.h.

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    $\begingroup$ A more detailed answer is found here. $\endgroup$
    – 0scar ♦
    Commented Jul 6, 2019 at 3:59
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As a quick and dirty solution you may try to enable two extruders in configuration file, re-upload firmware, and then edit your GCODE file to replace all E0 references with E1.

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  • $\begingroup$ That's a really good idea. It should be possible to have the firmware do it. Or there must be a script that can be ran... But it doesn't seem this firmware is all that great. I would suggest a different firmware if it doesn't do what is needed. $\endgroup$
    – MakerModder
    Commented Dec 13, 2016 at 2:28

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