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Can someone give me a hit on where do I need to connect the FANs?
There are 2 fans (one direct on the hotend and one poiting to the print) and on Micromake v1.2 board I have a small connector marked as FAN1 and a big one marked as FAN2.
I discovered I can control FAN2 with M106/M107. I did not find out how to control the FAN1.
Can someone give me some help with this? How should I connect my 2 fans? How should I setup firmware/cura?
10x
Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 11, 2016 01:44AM |
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The micromake firmware is crap. Its an old version of marlin and its in Chinese.
Best to just grab another copy of marlin. and set it up to specs of the printer you build.
Also make sure your bed is flat. An unlevel bed will total mess everything up. Delta arent like prusa printer. IF THE BED ISNT LEVEL then it wont be easy calibrating it.
Also make sure your rods are all the same size.
And make sure the bolt spacing for the effector and the carriages are the same.
Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 11, 2016 08:13AM |
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Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 11, 2016 01:39PM |
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There are a few firmware posted in this thread.
But as said the setting must match what you build or there will be problems.
When i first got my printer the default firmware hakf work.
Turns out i had a motor backwards on the board.
Fix that then all work, but printing was correct till i adjust the firmware to match.
You gotta set Z height, radius, rod.
Google "kossel calibration"
Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 11, 2016 03:33PM |
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xile6
There are a few firmware posted in this thread.
But as said the setting must match what you build or there will be problems.
When i first got my printer the default firmware hakf work.
Turns out i had a motor backwards on the board.
Fix that then all work, but printing was correct till i adjust the firmware to match.
You gotta set Z height, radius, rod.
Google "kossel calibration"
I've gotten mine to actually print on the firmware it came with but its a pain to calibrate through Cura software. I'd rather cailibrate through Marlin. I will try again with the config.h posted..
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Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 12, 2016 08:14AM |
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Okay I feel pretty stupid as I am not able to figure this out. Just picked up this micromake on CL and I plugged it in and hit print, it all seemed to work fine. While checking out the software I hit install default firmware and all hell broke loose. When I try and get it to home it seems as if Z hangs or is reversed or something. So X and Y go right up to the top and hit the switches but Z does not. It also now make a vibrating sound where before it was pretty quite.
I would love to get this figured out if anyone would like to give me a clue as to where I should start it would be appreciated.
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Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 13, 2016 01:38AM |
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Do you have a copy of the build instructions and the firmware you are using? I bought one on craigs list and I am trying to fix it.
Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 13, 2016 04:15AM |
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Weird thing is in Pronterface when I hit +X then X is going down. -X and X goes up. If I hit +Y then Y goes up and -Y and Y goes down. Its as if X is backwards. Is there an easy way to flip the direction X goes?
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I'm still working with the default firmware and my prints are coming along great! Downside is, the 12v connector is melting!!!!! On my prusa i3, I soldered the four 12v wires straight to the board. I'm thinking of doing the same thing to the MKS board and making a custom connector for the end of of it.
Anyone have any idea what I should do? I was thinking of just desoldering the female connector and solder a larger gauge power wire to it. It shows two negative and one positive pins. Should I jump the two negatives together?
What do you guys think?
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I have the Rich Cattel master working.Quote
Otvald
I am running a K800 (micromake clone), but I consider changing FW. I currently run a new DEV version of Marlin. It is OK, but I am not happy with the autobed level.
Some Q's:
Anyone using latest Marlin firmware? - Are there any micromake fixes in the supplied FW, except the configuration file?
Anyone using Rich Cattell autolevel, and is it working?
Anyone using reprap?
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Re: Has any one built the Micromake printer? January 15, 2016 09:02AM |
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*Edit*
I was using a older RC1.04 firmware. He has a testing one that should work better and I'm moving all most settings over. I have gotta everything to work all the way up to G29. I am working on getting G30 A to work.. Getting close!
*Edit #2*
Lots of head crash and bending rod links! I'm surprised I have not cracked the carbon rods yet. I got it to do G30 A and it is currently calibrating. Very interesting to watch!
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bogdanbrudiu
Hello,
I am new to 3d printing (a couple of days ago I finished the micromake assebly) and I have some nube questions...
When auto level calibrating from Cura - > Micromake debugger what tolerance should be used? And is this related afterwards with the layer height?
After 8 calibration tries I was able to reach 0.15 tolerance this means that minimum layer height that I can use is 0.15? Is 0.15 tolerance Ok or I should reach from something smaller?
Sometimes during print (at the first 1-3 layers) I can hear the z-probe limit switch click. Does this mean I did not set the height offset right? How to fix this?
And another thing sometimes I can hear the extruder motor skip is this related how hard I pres the filament on the roller? How to fix this?
10x