I turned my new Ender 3 S1 plus on after installing a Creality Sonic pad all went well at first ! Then later on after turning the printer back on again, a flame , not a spark blew out of the small usb end , where you connect the usb cabel into to a connector that fits both you cable and printer .I switched the back on after taking the usb connector out and it was red hot ! I let it cool down switched it all back on again The screen of the Sonic Pad comes on for a couple of seconds then goes off and tells me its an Error 3 .Anybody knows what the hell happend ?
So the flash was at the printer rather than the Sonic Pad? Have you tried another USB port on the Sonic pad to see if you still get key 3 error? A flame at the printer, check for a short. USB is only 5V so shouldn’t make a flame.
Its now saying error codes key 0 .As you can see by the small usb end the connector s melted roundthe front edges ! Any idesa whats happening ? Or do I try and replace the end part that melted , maybe burnt out iside for sme reason . But I thought it looked like over loaded due to high voltage
Key 0 and key 1 errors can be down to the USB cable, I would try a new cable and USB-C adaptor. I would still be having a look inside the printer for any shorts.
So good and fried the board ! I think the connection into the printer is to small and finikey to do the job , itsticks out a lot with the adapter on it . Is there a usb cabel avaliable from Greality to connect direct into the printer not having to use the adapter ? All good fun they told me !!
Isn’t it just a normal USB-C cable that connects your phone to your PC? Amazon should have loads. I have a similar cable for my Ender 5 plus, I have blocked the 5V pin so only ground, Tx and Rx connect the printer to the Sonic Pad in an effort to rid myself of random key 0 and key 1 errors. I assume it is USB-C and not MicroUSB or somesuch, I don’t have that particular printer.
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Its the standard usb cabel suppied with the Sonic Pad , and the spare connectors are for differnt machines .Its all down to it is to small and as to much movement ,justa small touch on it and yousee what happens . Do you think its a good idea to get the newer updated
type board ?
As you can see one end micro usb !!
A USB A to USB C cable, just like a mobile phone cable should do the trick.
Thanks for the tip about the cable .My mate has just got back to me and said his printer did the same as mine , large flame and all burnt mainport where the usb socket goes !! Im hopefully sending it back under garantie .It all looked so good !!
Just had a word with a grown up !! He reckons that I put the USBC end the wrong way round ,as its possible to do on this plug its not idiot safe ! I dont like the way he looked at me when he said that !! What do you think ? Did I put it the wrong way round and zapped the board +socket ? Hope to hear soon H
How do you put a USB-C cable in the wrong way? It doesn’t have an up or down! Besides, there’s nothing about the current in the USB-C cable/connector that should be sufficient to actually flame! My guess is whatever you were connecting the USB cable to had a voltage differential that caused the problem. Sounds like a problem with the device on one end of the cable. The USB-C connector/connection is actually pretty idiot-proof, that was one of the key points in the design!
That what I thought ! About the cable , but the end that goes into the socket is not like other handy cables , its reversable on the spare end plug you get with the Creality Sonic Pad to conect to your PC .If you look at other cables they are shaped to make it impossible to put it in the wrong way . And this is what happend ,I presume it was this , I mean maybe it doesnt matter with this setup which way round .Maybe it just a short near the plugin socket
I wondered what that adapter you had was for. After you get your new PCB, I’d use a plain USB-3 cable that doesn’t have something you can insert wrong. The whole point of making the USB-3 the way it is was to make it easy to insert and hard to insert wrong! Is this a micro-USB/USB3 adapter? Why in the world would they need that?
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I have one to reuse old phone chargers on other devices, but you really can’t put it in the wrong way.
I’m trying to figure out how you can blow up a USB port like that without some hardware fault in one of the devices! I’ve been using and building computers and peripherals since before USB was invented, and I never saw anything like that. There has to be more to this story than a bad USB cable or plugging it incorrectly!
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The USB cable with the Sonic pad has a mini usb connector on it , and with cable came a stick on adaptor thats wider , left is what I got with the Sonic Pad plus adapter now Igot as suggested by John the one piece all in one USBA and other end USBC .So all I need now a new board and where off !
Left of pic usb org Sonic pad to pc to small right USB with correct size end
As I said at the beginning USB is only 5V, the printer shouldn’t need any voltage just Rx, Tx and ground (my ender 5 plus I have blocked the 5V). I’m with there seems to be a short or similar to have caused this.
So, the Sonic pad has a micro-USB and the other end is a USB-C. I’m blown away that the USB-C port doesn’t have the proper current limiting on it’s supply and decided to just cook your board, that’s pretty low class! Since they’re both Creality products and USB-C has been around for almost ten years, why in the world use an obsolete interface connection?
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I have run my German RepRap priter for 6 years and I thought lets get moving ! And thats got a USB into the printer thats brickhouse built , not some tiny mobile telephone plughole !
Can I get something in the line to stop this happening again ?