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Hoping that someone who is better at electronics can verify what I am going to do. I am trying to follow Tom's Guide on setting up auto bed leveling
3D printing guides: Setting up auto bed tramming leveling tilt compensation!
I am going to just use the open terminals on the power supply to get 12v input and ground. It looks to me like the pin closest to the edge of the ramps board is where I need to hook up the output.
Does that look right? I would prefer not to fry anything.
In case anyone else finds is attempting to do the same thing wiring it up this way worked.
Does anyone have any tips on unloading the filament? I reverse the extruder but most of the time the melted end of the plastic gets caught in the gear and I have to take it apart to get it out.
I usually just cut the filament and force it through with new filament.
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Can someone help please. My pla has been getting caught between the heat block and the filament drive. It would print fine for 10 minutes and then building up between heat block and fan/ filament drive.
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 06, 2015 03:14PM |
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Can someone help please. My pla has been getting caught between the heat block and the filament drive. It would print fine for 10 minutes and then building up between heat block and fan/ filament drive.
It might help if you take a picture of you setup or if the problem is visible the problem itself. Is it the standard unmodified Folger extruder? Also post your basic print settings such as the extrusion temperature.
Off the top of my head a few possibilities....
- Wrong PLA Extrusion temp
- Clogged Extruder
- Inconsistent Filament Diameter or dirty filament (I had some recently that had globs in it so bad in some places it wouldn't even feed into the extruder)
- If you have cleaned your nozzle did your damage or accidentally remove the barrel liner by any chance?
- Nozzle not seated well to barrel/throat.
-Zach
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Can someone help please. My pla has been getting caught between the heat block and the filament drive. It would print fine for 10 minutes and then building up between heat block and fan/ filament drive.
It might help if you take a picture of you setup or if the problem is visible the problem itself. Is it the standard unmodified Folger extruder? Also post your basic print settings such as the extrusion temperature.
Off the top of my head a few possibilities....
- Wrong PLA Extrusion temp
- Clogged Extruder
- Inconsistent Filament Diameter or dirty filament (I had some recently that had globs in it so bad in some places it wouldn't even feed into the extruder)
- If you have cleaned your nozzle did your damage or accidentally remove the barrel liner by any chance?
- Nozzle not seated well to barrel/throat.
-Zach
My temperatures are 225 for 50mms and 240 for 70mms. I recently cleaned my extruder and the barrel liner came out but I putt back in. Also 3 of my fan blades from my extruder fan broke off and I need to get a new fan.
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 06, 2015 06:56PM |
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jrcaster
Make sure you have all of the relevent files in the directory before you compile to arduino. Looks like you are missing the files that it is looking for.
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 06, 2015 07:53PM |
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DMAN120 That is an awesome enclosure. Very clean looking. Great job!
I am curious. Are you using the original PLA parts that came from Folger? If so how long have you been using them in an enclosure?
I used a box over my machine for awhile when I was doing a bunch of ABS prints on it and the PLA parts that were under any tension expanded and became unusable. (It was about 50c in the "enclosure" after warming up)
I reprinted them all in ABS from my other machine and I haven't had any issues since then.
-Zach
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Nice enclosure Darren ! I like the side panel very much. Are the switches for the light only ? Do you have an internal ventilation and do you manage fumes ?
Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 06, 2015 09:33PM |
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Can someone help please. My pla has been getting caught between the heat block and the filament drive. It would print fine for 10 minutes and then building up between heat block and fan/ filament drive.
It might help if you take a picture of you setup or if the problem is visible the problem itself. Is it the standard unmodified Folger extruder? Also post your basic print settings such as the extrusion temperature.
Off the top of my head a few possibilities....
- Wrong PLA Extrusion temp
- Clogged Extruder
- Inconsistent Filament Diameter or dirty filament (I had some recently that had globs in it so bad in some places it wouldn't even feed into the extruder)
- If you have cleaned your nozzle did your damage or accidentally remove the barrel liner by any chance?
- Nozzle not seated well to barrel/throat.
-Zach
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I agree with all the above. I was having the exact same issue and the guy at folger suggested that I run the fan always on in the slicer settings so I did that and set the min. fan speed at 90 and the max at 100 and i havnt had any issues...... before I got this info I managed to wear the pinion gear. so I slid it out a bit. that helped also. if you have been trying for a while like I did for sure check that tooQuote
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Can someone help please. My pla has been getting caught between the heat block and the filament drive. It would print fine for 10 minutes and then building up between heat block and fan/ filament drive.
It might help if you take a picture of you setup or if the problem is visible the problem itself. Is it the standard unmodified Folger extruder? Also post your basic print settings such as the extrusion temperature.
Off the top of my head a few possibilities....
- Wrong PLA Extrusion temp
- Clogged Extruder
- Inconsistent Filament Diameter or dirty filament (I had some recently that had globs in it so bad in some places it wouldn't even feed into the extruder)
- If you have cleaned your nozzle did your damage or accidentally remove the barrel liner by any chance?
- Nozzle not seated well to barrel/throat.
-Zach
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I switched the y-axis and extruder stepper motors on the RAMPS board and the extruder stepper seemed to be working fine. So I guess the stepper motor is not the issue. The extruder stepper motor driver VREF is set to 0.35V. I don't know what the issue is.Quote
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Finally got everything set up and I'm trying to make sure everything is working for my first test print. Everything seems to be operating smoothly except the extruded stepper motor. I try to feed the filament and it feels/sounds like the stepper motor is in a bind. The stepper motor just kinda oscillates back and forth about 1mm. Anyone else had a problem like this?
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Can someone help please. My pla has been getting caught between the heat block and the filament drive. It would print fine for 10 minutes and then building up between heat block and fan/ filament drive.
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Make sure you have all of the relevent files in the directory before you compile to arduino. Looks like you are missing the files that it is looking for.
I've been fighting with the Full Graphic Smart controller as well... I have several LCDs and RAMPS shields, I ruled out electronics, wiring etc... the only thing left is firmware issue or defective LCD board. I get stuff displayed in any other LCD that I plug in.
The LCD turns on, nothing displayed other than a one row of pixels (middle of screen) that are of different contrast than the rest of the screen (i.e. not fully on), That's it.
The folgertech configuration.h doesn't have the "FULL GRAPHIC" smart controller, so I tried adding it, also tried with stock marlin 1.01 to rule firmware out (Added the U8Glib.h library and include in configuration.h) still nothing on the screen.
As stated by other people, there's no pot on the board, and its not a inverted wiring issue else it wouldn't power up, I get no compile error.... using arduino 1.06, what's left?? thanks for any help!
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Hoping that someone who is better at electronics can verify what I am going to do. I am trying to follow Tom's Guide on setting up auto bed leveling
3D printing guides: Setting up auto bed tramming leveling tilt compensation!
I am going to just use the open terminals on the power supply to get 12v input and ground. It looks to me like the pin closest to the edge of the ramps board is where I need to hook up the output.
Does that look right? I would prefer not to fry anything.
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Make sure you have all of the relevent files in the directory before you compile to arduino. Looks like you are missing the files that it is looking for.
I've been fighting with the Full Graphic Smart controller as well... I have several LCDs and RAMPS shields, I ruled out electronics, wiring etc... the only thing left is firmware issue or defective LCD board. I get stuff displayed in any other LCD that I plug in.
The LCD turns on, nothing displayed other than a one row of pixels (middle of screen) that are of different contrast than the rest of the screen (i.e. not fully on), That's it.
The folgertech configuration.h doesn't have the "FULL GRAPHIC" smart controller, so I tried adding it, also tried with stock marlin 1.01 to rule firmware out (Added the U8Glib.h library and include in configuration.h) still nothing on the screen.
As stated by other people, there's no pot on the board, and its not a inverted wiring issue else it wouldn't power up, I get no compile error.... using arduino 1.06, what's left?? thanks for any help!
Several of us have been there and done that wit the Full Graphic Smart controller. The consensus is, use the latest version of the Marlin firmware. Apparently the new version of the Full Graphic Smart controller, the one without the pot, does not work with the old version of Marlin. I too had the single line of pixels.
Make sure you install and import the U8Glib from https://code.google.com/p/u8glib/wiki/u8glib
I installed the new Marlin from https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin
Just configured my configuration.h and it worked.
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Switched out stepper motor drivers and tha did the trick.Quote
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@boy09 - jittering stepper usually is a wiring issue. use a multimeter to find the pairs. Low or no resistance indicate a pair, open circuit indicates its not a pair. Pairs go next to each other in the 4 pin connector. Also try swapping the stepper drivers.
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Re: Folger Prusa i3 Kit from ebay January 09, 2015 06:14AM |
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Your stepsticks output power is not properly set. I guess it's too high, your stepper motor should not be too hot, it should feel tepid to the touch. Maybe your printing speed is too low too. Measure the output power if you can, and lower it to a proper value. Your speed is low but the Folger's extruder do not allow high speeds anyways. PLA makes a lot of chips on the cold end gear. Be sure it's nice and clean. Mybe you can raise a bit the hotend temperature too, that will make the filament travel more fluent. But beware to raise it too high, because the Folger's extruder cloggs quicky when too hot.Quote
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My extruder motor gets hot and then 20 minutes later it starts clicking and not feeding into hot end. Speed is 50mms 190 degrees with transparent pla
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