Welp I somehow fried the Printrboard on my Simple Metal. Should I get a new revF or go to Smoothieware?
You know what my answer is going to be. Seriously though the Mini is about to be in stock and I can get one out to you next week.
Definitely considering it although I’d go for the full size one you offer for inevitable dual extrusion via a Y splitter.
Yeah pretty much
After a second look it seems the connection between the molex coming from my board and the cable from the ATX PSU is what fried. May not need a new board after all. If I do though I’ll actually probably get your mini board Ray. I won’t make use of the Y splitter for a while. Especially since I’m on the waitlist for the new i3 mk2.
Brook is working on an upgrade kit for the simple metal to convert it to the new G2 version. It’s 32 bit, and quite fancy. Don’t think he’s released it yet, but might be worth investigating.
Now that you can print without the cloud the G2 electronics are more appealing. When my board fried I went back with the F with the USB B port for strength.
No mention on their website about the upgrade kit. I remember hearing someone mention it in one of their YouTube videos but it sounded more like a hardware upgrade (rods to rails). Their 32 bit board might be nice but they don’t even sell it separately on their site and I need this fixed ASAP. Most likely gonna go with Ray’s Mini.
Printrbot is indeed preparing to sell our Printrboard G2 separately. It will be a drop in replacement for a Marlin board. We have a special Mac build of Cura2 working now, but we have seen the light: it needs to be Marlin-compatible. So Alden and Rob are working on some additions to the firmware to play nice with typical Marlin hosts. This is an unofficial early announcement, but getting all the buttery 32bit motion and crazy math from G2 (tinyg) firmware is too good to relegate to a limited audience. Our initial goal is to get it compliant with off the shelf Cura2, so that’s the first goal. After that, we hope to see it work with… whatever open source or even closed source host you have. We believe we have a winner that will smooth the jump to 32 bit and give smoothie some competition.
Working with tinyg- a small company- has real benefits: unbelievable expertise, solid partners (shopbot, othermill, evil mad scientist, etc), but the best is having the project lead’s and the main software author’s number at hand to get real answers and make decisions. We see each other in person whenever possible and even have had them fly across the country to get the whole team together! That’s how progress happens- get all those smart guys in the room. It’s open source, but doesn’t have the “herding cats” feel that the Marlin project had- that left my frustrated.
We are breaking new ground and it is incredibly complicated, so the price we pay is cost and time… but it’s moving along very rapidly now. There is more to the story, but I’ll save it for after it’s for sale 
or it didn’t happen, right!?
When it releases, it will have no equal. Mark my words. And, yes, I’ll have beta units available for those who can beat the crap out of it AND offer useful feedback
Brook
@Brook_Drumm any comment on my issue? The connection between the two molex cables is fried. I submitted a support ticket 2 days ago but no response.
What do you need to fix? Is it the board or the wires?
@Brook_Drumm Looks to be simply the wires but I haven’t done extensive testing. It actually runs until I heat anything but the hotend or try to move at higher speeds
Support got back to me and told me the PSU needs to be replaced and to connect it directly to the board instead of using an extension, but won’t replace it because it’s outside of the 60 day warranty.
So is it not the wires? It’s the psu? Are you using an extension from the psu?
@Brook_Drumm Yeah i’m using an extension. The connection between the cable from the PSU and the extension fried and melted the plastic connectors.