Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 11:33AM |
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tnm
Just for an update, it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted.
I've gotten my printer built, programmed and printing I want to say thanks to you all
for posting your tricks and tips on this thread, and for therippa's firmware update.
Surprisingly, my first print came out as an identifiable ultimaker robot.
No complaints yet, except for the printed parts that came in the kit
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 11:40AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 12:52PM |
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tnm
Just for an update, it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted.
I've gotten my printer built, programmed and printing I want to say thanks to you all
for posting your tricks and tips on this thread, and for therippa's firmware update.
Surprisingly, my first print came out as an identifiable ultimaker robot.
No complaints yet, except for the printed parts that came in the kit
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 01:14PM |
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tnm
Just for an update, it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted.
I've gotten my printer built, programmed and printing I want to say thanks to you all
for posting your tricks and tips on this thread, and for therippa's firmware update.
Surprisingly, my first print came out as an identifiable ultimaker robot.
No complaints yet, except for the printed parts that came in the kit
Just curious, how long does it take you to heat up your bed to 100C? It's been taking me almost an hour, which just doesn't seem right.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 01:20PM |
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tnm
Just for an update, it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted.
I've gotten my printer built, programmed and printing I want to say thanks to you all
for posting your tricks and tips on this thread, and for therippa's firmware update.
Surprisingly, my first print came out as an identifiable ultimaker robot.
No complaints yet, except for the printed parts that came in the kit
Just curious, how long does it take you to heat up your bed to 100C? It's been taking me almost an hour, which just doesn't seem right.
I let my extruder get to about 200C but I use PLA so I'm not really concerned about the bed. I don't think it gets more than 60C at the most,
and it gets there well before the hot end gets to its point, maybe 8-10 minutes
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 01:41PM |
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tnm
Just for an update, it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted.
I've gotten my printer built, programmed and printing I want to say thanks to you all
for posting your tricks and tips on this thread, and for therippa's firmware update.
Surprisingly, my first print came out as an identifiable ultimaker robot.
No complaints yet, except for the printed parts that came in the kit
Just curious, how long does it take you to heat up your bed to 100C? It's been taking me almost an hour, which just doesn't seem right.
I let my extruder get to about 200C but I use PLA so I'm not really concerned about the bed. I don't think it gets more than 60C at the most,
and it gets there well before the hot end gets to its point, maybe 8-10 minutes
Thanks - i think most slicers heat up the bed before the extruder, which is why the bed is getting to temp faster than the extruder. My extruder alone gets to temp within a minute or so. It does take maybe 5-10 minutes for my bed to get to 60, but to get to 90 or 100 it takes much much longer.
Does anyone know how big of a role ambient temperature impacts the bed temps? I'm thinking about building an enclosure and wanted to see how much of an improvement i might see. But first, i want to rule out if there is something wrong with my set up - i'm hearing some people have their beds up to ABS temps within 10 minutes... even the PID autotune at 90 time's out at 10 minutes.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 04:01PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 07:46PM |
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Anyone upgrade the extruder stepper? I have an email in to Folger about a faulty stepper and I was considering just upgrading to something better. Was considering the following:
[www.amazon.com]
Not sure how I would get everything mounted though. Was wondering if anyone found something a bit more drop in.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 09:47PM |
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Do you guys like it that the extuder fan is just directly connected to the + and - like in the folgertech instruction? Or do you prefer it hooked up to the ramps board?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 09:57PM |
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Do you guys like it that the extuder fan is just directly connected to the + and - like in the folgertech instruction? Or do you prefer it hooked up to the ramps board?
Now that you mentioned it, my fan is directly connected to the
power supply, and it hasn't kicked on yet. At this point, it's toward
the bottom the bottom of my "to-do" list. Since I posted this morning,
my extruder came off in the middle of a print, and I'm looking into
a possible clogging issue
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 10:13PM |
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Do you guys like it that the extuder fan is just directly connected to the + and - like in the folgertech instruction? Or do you prefer it hooked up to the ramps board?
Now that you mentioned it, my fan is directly connected to the
power supply, and it hasn't kicked on yet. At this point, it's toward
the bottom the bottom of my "to-do" list. Since I posted this morning,
my extruder came off in the middle of a print, and I'm looking into
a possible clogging issue
Your fan not running could cause clogging.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 08, 2016 11:26PM |
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Do you guys like it that the extuder fan is just directly connected to the + and - like in the folgertech instruction? Or do you prefer it hooked up to the ramps board?
Now that you mentioned it, my fan is directly connected to the
power supply, and it hasn't kicked on yet. At this point, it's toward
the bottom the bottom of my "to-do" list. Since I posted this morning,
my extruder came off in the middle of a print, and I'm looking into
a possible clogging issue
Your fan not running could cause clogging.
Good point. I'll look at that and get the fan running or blow the
box fan on it until I get the fan replaced. Before that I need to
get a guitar "e" string to unclog the extruder nozzle, Does
anyone know if dipping the extruder nozzle in acetone will
eat up the leaky heat sink?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 12:05AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 12:19AM |
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So i'm trying to calibrate my setup and I'm running into a boat load of problems. For some reason, when I'm in manual mode and I'd like to level the bed, the output in repetier tells me that it's hitting an end stop but it's not touching an end stop nor is the light on the end stop on. I'm using therippa's Marlin code and I believe I have all of the settings right, the settings in the configuration.h file is already setup for the x to be swapped, I have the end stop on the left hand side, opposite of where the power supply is, the end stop plug has been moved to be next to Y (min), and the end stop is set to max yet it's trying to go to the right side of the board.. I have all of the motors having the right cable to the left except the far one on the top right, then the red cable is on the right side. Am I missing something? I assume whenever I hear the high pitch hum, it means it's low on power? I haven't messed with the driver boards yet as I'm scared that I'm going to end up fry it but I think that's where I'm falling short on some of it from working.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 12:54AM |
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tnm
Just for an update, it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted.
I've gotten my printer built, programmed and printing I want to say thanks to you all
for posting your tricks and tips on this thread, and for therippa's firmware update.
Surprisingly, my first print came out as an identifiable ultimaker robot.
No complaints yet, except for the printed parts that came in the kit
Just curious, how long does it take you to heat up your bed to 100C? It's been taking me almost an hour, which just doesn't seem right.
I let my extruder get to about 200C but I use PLA so I'm not really concerned about the bed. I don't think it gets more than 60C at the most,
and it gets there well before the hot end gets to its point, maybe 8-10 minutes
Thanks - i think most slicers heat up the bed before the extruder, which is why the bed is getting to temp faster than the extruder. My extruder alone gets to temp within a minute or so. It does take maybe 5-10 minutes for my bed to get to 60, but to get to 90 or 100 it takes much much longer.
Does anyone know how big of a role ambient temperature impacts the bed temps? I'm thinking about building an enclosure and wanted to see how much of an improvement i might see. But first, i want to rule out if there is something wrong with my set up - i'm hearing some people have their beds up to ABS temps within 10 minutes... even the PID autotune at 90 time's out at 10 minutes.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 01:10AM |
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So i'm trying to calibrate my setup and I'm running into a boat load of problems. For some reason, when I'm in manual mode and I'd like to level the bed, the output in repetier tells me that it's hitting an end stop but it's not touching an end stop nor is the light on the end stop on. I'm using therippa's Marlin code and I believe I have all of the settings right, the settings in the configuration.h file is already setup for the x to be swapped, I have the end stop on the left hand side, opposite of where the power supply is, the end stop plug has been moved to be next to Y (min), and the end stop is set to max yet it's trying to go to the right side of the board.. I have all of the motors having the right cable to the left except the far one on the top right, then the red cable is on the right side. Am I missing something? I assume whenever I hear the high pitch hum, it means it's low on power? I haven't messed with the driver boards yet as I'm scared that I'm going to end up fry it but I think that's where I'm falling short on some of it from working.
Click the x button to home it
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 03:08AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 06:12AM |
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Just curious, how long does it take you to heat up your bed to 100C? It's been taking me almost an hour, which just doesn't seem right.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 10:04AM |
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So i'm trying to calibrate my setup and I'm running into a boat load of problems. For some reason, when I'm in manual mode and I'd like to level the bed, the output in repetier tells me that it's hitting an end stop but it's not touching an end stop nor is the light on the end stop on. I'm using therippa's Marlin code and I believe I have all of the settings right, the settings in the configuration.h file is already setup for the x to be swapped, I have the end stop on the left hand side, opposite of where the power supply is, the end stop plug has been moved to be next to Y (min), and the end stop is set to max yet it's trying to go to the right side of the board.. I have all of the motors having the right cable to the left except the far one on the top right, then the red cable is on the right side. Am I missing something? I assume whenever I hear the high pitch hum, it means it's low on power? I haven't messed with the driver boards yet as I'm scared that I'm going to end up fry it but I think that's where I'm falling short on some of it from working.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 10:23AM |
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So i'm trying to calibrate my setup and I'm running into a boat load of problems. For some reason, when I'm in manual mode and I'd like to level the bed, the output in repetier tells me that it's hitting an end stop but it's not touching an end stop nor is the light on the end stop on. I'm using therippa's Marlin code and I believe I have all of the settings right, the settings in the configuration.h file is already setup for the x to be swapped, I have the end stop on the left hand side, opposite of where the power supply is, the end stop plug has been moved to be next to Y (min), and the end stop is set to max yet it's trying to go to the right side of the board.. I have all of the motors having the right cable to the left except the far one on the top right, then the red cable is on the right side. Am I missing something? I assume whenever I hear the high pitch hum, it means it's low on power? I haven't messed with the driver boards yet as I'm scared that I'm going to end up fry it but I think that's where I'm falling short on some of it from working.
If you moved the X endstop to the left, then make X MIN in Repetier. AND move your endstop plug back to where it was, all the way to the right. That's your problem. Also in config.h, you need to make
#define X_HOME_DIR -1
#define Y_HOME_DIR -1
#define Z_HOME_DIR -1
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 06:45PM |
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I've been running my BLTOUCH off of an external wall wart; however, I bought a 12V/5V regulator at Radio Shack and was going to install it on the back of the plexiglas where the Arduino is mounted. I think I remember reading that someone was using one of these 7805's and, for some reason, switched back to the external supply.
Whoever that was > why did you switch back? Like to know before installing mine.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 07:07PM |
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I've been running my BLTOUCH off of an external wall wart; however, I bought a 12V/5V regulator at Radio Shack and was going to install it on the back of the plexiglas where the Arduino is mounted. I think I remember reading that someone was using one of these 7805's and, for some reason, switched back to the external supply.
Whoever that was > why did you switch back? Like to know before installing mine.
That was me but I didn't switch back. I'm still using the 7805 regulator connected directly to the power supply and feeding +5v to one of the unused servo +5 pins. I removed the jumper at the ramps board. I noticed that without the extra 7805 regulator I would see some flickering of the LCD screen whenever the BLtouch pin cycled. Maybe I just have a wimpy 5 volt regulator on the Arduino but I had a 7805 in stock so it was a cheap fix. I did go back and forth a few times but I've decided to leave the regulator in place.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 09, 2016 08:04PM |
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