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extruder gear

Posted by printer_man58 
extruder gear
October 26, 2013 04:17PM
In my extruder the gears move in the wrong direction which makes the plastic not extrude. Is there a way in the marlin code that allows me to change my gear direction.
// For Inverting Stepper Enable Pins (Active Low) use 0, Non Inverting (Active High) use 1
#define X_ENABLE_ON 0
#define Y_ENABLE_ON 0
#define Z_ENABLE_ON 0
#define E_ENABLE_ON 1 // For all extruders

When i set the extruder in that piece of code to 1 the gears wouldn't move. Also what is the difference between orca and mendel. I have a mendelmax 1.5 with ramps 1.4
Thanks
Re: extruder gear
October 27, 2013 01:25PM
The simple solution is to just plug the extruder stepper in the other way on your Ramps board.
Re: extruder gear
October 28, 2013 03:02PM
Thanks. Are you talking about the polulu stepper driver or the actual wires?
Re: extruder gear
October 28, 2013 03:06PM
There is a later section of the config file that has a name like INVERT_E. There is one for each axis, and actually multiple for the E axis since you can have multiple extruders. I just did this last night - you set it to true or false. Actually in my case, I have a dual extruders with PL35 motors facing each other, so they need to be set opposite from one another - one is true and one is false. Of course I guessed wrong the first time.
Re: extruder gear
October 28, 2013 04:22PM
On the RAMPS just unplug the cable from the extruder and plug in in again after turning it 180 degrees.

No need to do anything with the wires.
Re: extruder gear
October 28, 2013 05:47PM
Thanks to everybody for all the help! I just fixed it.
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