RepRapFirmware supports a chamber heater, but by default no chamber heater is configured. To use a chamber heater, you will need a spare heater channel, and either the thermistor channel associated with that heater or another temperature sensing channel.
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.
If you have a chamber heater that runs on the same voltage as your Duet, you can connect it to one of the extruder heater outputs (5A maximum), or to the heated bed output (15A maximum).
SSRs generally accept anywhere between 3V and 32V input voltage, so you can connect the SSR to the heater terminal block, or any other PWM pin that has sufficient voltage and current to turn the SSR on and off. 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.
If you have a Duet 2 WiFi/Ethernet 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.
Add the following commands to your config.g.
Example:
; Heaters
M308 S2 P"temp2" Y"thermistor" T100000 B3950 ; configure sensor 2 as thermistor on pin temp2
M950 H2 C"out2" T2 ; create chamber heater output on out2 and map it to sensor 2
M307 H2 B0 S1.00 ; disable bang-bang mode for the chamber heater and set PWM limit
M141 H2 ; map chamber to heater 2
M143 H2 S60 ; set temperature limit for heater 2 to 60C
M308 S2 P"e1temp" Y"thermistor" T100000 B3950 ; configure sensor 2 as thermistor on pin e1temp
M950 H2 C"e1heat" T2 ; create chamber heater output on e1heat and map it to sensor 2
M307 H2 B0 S1.00 ; disable bang-bang mode for the chamber heater and set PWM limit
M141 H2 ; map chamber to heater 2
M143 H2 S100 ; set temperature limit for heater 2 to 100C
Add the following commands to your config.g.
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 X 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.
Use M141 and M116 to control 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.