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Printhead pauses during printing

Posted by instmkr 
Printhead pauses during printing
October 27, 2016 02:46PM
My prints have pauses seemingly before and after the rapid movements on each layer.
The behavior is shown at youtube link. Stumped for two days, any help appreciated.

[youtu.be] [youtu.be]

marlin configuration.h [pastebin.com]

Solidoodle2 refitted with ramps1.4, 2560 mega, marlin with repeteirHost on win7pro

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/27/2016 02:52PM by instmkr.
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 27, 2016 04:27PM
Don't print from a PC, print from SD card instead. See #3 at [reprap.org].



Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 27, 2016 08:42PM
Same results from SD print or usb. Good linkage though, 4 years no trouble printing over usb = good luck.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/27/2016 09:06PM by instmkr.
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 28, 2016 02:07AM
Are you certain that your slicer hasn't inserted pause commands into the gcode to enforce a minimum layer time?



Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 28, 2016 09:30AM
Not certian but did not find any Mcode pauses or a G4.
Would the "inserted pause commands" come from Slic3r's Filament Settings/Cooling "Slow down if layer print time is below" ?
Thanks

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/2016 10:53AM by instmkr.
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 28, 2016 04:03PM
I can't see anything obviously wrong with that gcode. All the movements appear to be at least 0.5mm long.

If you can provide a whole layer of gcode and mark in it one or more points where those pauses definitely occur, I'll take another look.



Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 28, 2016 08:40PM
Switched to slicing a 15x15x1.2mm cube. Gcode below starts a few lines before Z move to 1.3 and the two pauses at start of the 4th layer (also roughly start of video.)
Odd thing, printing did not pause during traverse (or any) move in the three previous layers.
Many thanks for your help.

Video [youtu.be] (nothing much to see after printer pauses)

Complete gcode here [pastebin.com]

See the problematic gcode layer in next post, apologies.

Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/2016 10:47AM by instmkr.
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 29, 2016 10:42AM
Evidentally editing posts truncates long text posts...

Switched to slicing a 15x15x1.2mm cube. Gcode below starts a few lines before Z move to 1.3 and the two pauses at start of the 4th layer (also roughly start of video.)
Odd thing, printing did not pause during traverse (or any) move in the three previous layers.
Many thanks for your help.

Video [youtu.be] (nothing much to see after printer pauses)

Complete gcode here [pastebin.com]


G1 X81.676 Y68.542 E99.1427
M106 S170.85 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<no fan on printer. Is a fan the default in marlin configuration.h?
G1 Z1.3 F7200
G1 E97.1427 F2400
G92 E0
G1 X68.077 Y68.077 F7200
G1 E2 F2400
G1 X81.923 Y68.077 E2.72336 F3600
G1 X81.923 Y81.923 E3.44671
G1 X68.077 Y81.923 E4.17007
G1 X68.077 Y68.137 E4.89029
G1 X67.7 Y67.7 F7200
G1 X82.3 Y67.7 E5.50145 F1800
G1 X82.3 Y82.3 E6.11261
G1 X67.7 Y82.3 E6.72377
G1 X67.7 Y67.76 E7.33242
G1 X68.046 Y67.9 F7200
G1 X68.542 Y68.324 F7200
G1 X68.324 Y68.542 E7.34863 F900
G1 X68.324 Y69.139 E7.38006
G1 X69.139 Y68.324 E7.44072
G1 X69.736 Y68.324 E7.47215
G1 X68.324 Y69.736 E7.57726
G1 X68.324 Y70.333 E7.60869
G1 X70.333 Y68.324 E7.75825
G1 X70.93 Y68.324 E7.78968
G1 X68.324 Y70.93 E7.98369
G1 X68.324 Y71.527 E8.01512
G1 X71.527 Y68.324 E8.25358
G1 X72.124 Y68.324 E8.28501
G1 X68.324 Y72.124 E8.56792
G1 X68.324 Y72.721 E8.59935
G1 X72.721 Y68.324 E8.92671
G1 X73.318 Y68.324 E8.95814
G1 X68.324 Y73.318 E9.32995
G1 X68.324 Y73.915 E9.36138
G1 X73.915 Y68.324 E9.77763
G1 X74.512 Y68.324 E9.80906
G1 X68.324 Y74.512 E10.26977
G1 X68.324 Y75.109 E10.3012
G1 X75.109 Y68.324 E10.80636
G1 X75.706 Y68.324 E10.83779
G1 X68.324 Y75.706 E11.38739
G1 X68.324 Y76.303 E11.41882
G1 X76.303 Y68.324 E12.01288
G1 X76.9 Y68.324 E12.04431
G1 X68.324 Y76.9 E12.68281
G1 X68.324 Y77.497 E12.71424
G1 X77.497 Y68.324 E13.3972
G1 X78.094 Y68.324 E13.42863
G1 X68.324 Y78.094 E14.15603
G1 X68.324 Y78.691 E14.18746
G1 X78.691 Y68.324 E14.95931
G1 X79.288 Y68.324 E14.99074
G1 X68.324 Y79.288 E15.80705
G1 X68.324 Y79.885 E15.83848
G1 X79.885 Y68.324 E16.69923
G1 X80.482 Y68.324 E16.73066
G1 X68.324 Y80.482 E17.63586
G1 X68.324 Y81.079 E17.66729
G1 X81.079 Y68.324 E18.61694
G1 X81.656 Y68.344 E18.64734
G1 X68.344 Y81.656 E19.63846
G1 X68.921 Y81.676 E19.66886
G1 X81.676 Y68.921 E20.61851
G1 X81.676 Y69.518 E20.64994
G1 X69.518 Y81.676 E21.55514
G1 X70.115 Y81.676 E21.58657
G1 X81.676 Y70.115 E22.44732
G1 X81.676 Y70.712 E22.47875
G1 X70.712 Y81.676 E23.29506
G1 X71.309 Y81.676 E23.32649
G1 X81.676 Y71.309 E24.09834
G1 X81.676 Y71.906 E24.12977
G1 X71.906 Y81.676 E24.85717
G1 X72.503 Y81.676 E24.8886
G1 X81.676 Y72.503 E25.57156
G1 X81.676 Y73.1 E25.60299
G1 X73.1 Y81.676 E26.24149
G1 X73.697 Y81.676 E26.27292
G1 X81.676 Y73.697 E26.86698
G1 X81.676 Y74.294 E26.89841
G1 X74.294 Y81.676 E27.44802
G1 X74.891 Y81.676 E27.47945
G1 X81.676 Y74.891 E27.9846
G1 X81.676 Y75.488 E28.01603
G1 X75.488 Y81.676 E28.47674
G1 X76.085 Y81.676 E28.50817
G1 X81.676 Y76.085 E28.92443
G1 X81.676 Y76.682 E28.95586
G1 X76.682 Y81.676 E29.32766
G1 X77.279 Y81.676 E29.35909
G1 X81.676 Y77.279 E29.68645
G1 X81.676 Y77.876 E29.71788
G1 X77.876 Y81.676 E30.00079
G1 X78.473 Y81.676 E30.03222
G1 X81.676 Y78.473 E30.27068
G1 X81.676 Y79.07 E30.30211
G1 X79.07 Y81.676 E30.49612
G1 X79.667 Y81.676 E30.52755
G1 X81.676 Y79.667 E30.67711
G1 X81.676 Y80.264 E30.70854
G1 X80.264 Y81.676 E30.81365
G1 X80.861 Y81.676 E30.84508
G1 X81.676 Y80.861 E30.90574
G1 X81.676 Y81.458 E30.93717
G1 X81.458 Y81.676 E30.95338
G1 E28.95338 F2400
G92 E0
M107
M104 S0
G28 X0
M84
M104 T0 S0
M140 S0
M84

end gcode
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 30, 2016 02:22PM
Got it. No retraction no pausing. Duh.
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 30, 2016 03:20PM
I'm glad you solved it, but surprised that 2mm retraction @ 2400mm/min causes such long pauses.



Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].
Re: Printhead pauses during printing
October 30, 2016 04:27PM
Yea and "it" may come back to bite. Printing like a dream now.
Thanks for assist.
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