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Calibrating Prusa?

Posted by Rook 
Calibrating Prusa?
July 02, 2011 02:11PM
Things get ugly when I press "home" on an axis in Repsnapper. The printer seems to want to drive the axis off the Prusa! I'm a little reluctant to try the home feature again unless I'm confident I can get it to work safely.

I try "G92 Y0" to reset the relative position of Y, and M114 to confirm the input, but when I press "home" for Y the printer seems to attempt to travel infinitely down the negative Y axis. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Where exactly is "home", and can the user set it?

Finally, will the printer automatically know how to move a given number of inches/millimetres, or will its estimates be unreliable without further calibration?

Thanks!
Re: Calibrating Prusa?
July 02, 2011 08:05PM
To answer my own question...

Apparently the problems were related to firmware. A very helpful person called Action68 on IRC sorted me out. I have the Tonokip firmware installed now. I'll add that the printer is much quieter and seems to be compatible with more host software now.
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