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Thermistor requires special table to convert its output to human reading, and different thermistor might has a little difference.
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Then at last, record the reproted Z position (M114 command), tune the end stop or firmware if necessary.
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4. Heat up the extruder and heated bed in free air, without filament yet. Make sure the heater and thermistor works. And that tape and whatsoever works.
5. While the heat is up, in the free air, load the filament.
6. Try to extrude in the mid-air. Make sure it has a good grab of the filament but not stripping it (no residuals on the hobbed bolt). Calibration the E steps per mm. Go slowly...like it should takes 5 seconds for the big gear to turn 1 round.
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7. Calibrate the Z again when hot, the measurement is somewhat different after some extrusion and when the machine is hot.
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8. Now you can start printing. (http://reprap.org/wiki/Calibration).
I'm anxious to get a print, but not so much that I want to go through a week of tuning on parameters that are well known to everyone and I should have set them correctly from the beginning.Quote
The most important is you start at the correct Z level such that you don't have the head crash on the bed. It doesn't matter if you have the skeinforge settings wrong, slight wrong temperature, or too much/too less plastic, start extruding and see what you get.
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