Well, min came with an SBase board, which I fought for a year and now I go back to the trusty RAMPS. If it indeed does not work with the RAMPS, I put the smart controller back on. But my smart controller has so much backlight I cannot see the wording on accept for at an angle. I don't really care which one is on there, as long as I can print from SD or USB stick. The printer is stand alone in the shed.
The TFT does light up now and funcion, I didn't get it to communicate with the RAMPS yet. The 7805 got a little hot but has no cooling body on it yet, nor a fan. I wonder whether the TFT3 is really that different, or whether the power source issue is the reason it cannot work on the standard RAMPS set-up. I haven't given it up, yet, but I just want my printer back to working order ASAP, and I don't like both my screen / SD option seem to fail...
Hugo