Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 23, 2016 08:13PM |
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All this talk of extruders seems to be reinforcing something I'm discovering with my kit, but I wanted to ask and make sure I'm not overlooking something.
I read through the whole thread, but it's sort of blurred together, and even with the custom search, I'm not sure I'm finding what I'm looking for.
My extruder is skipping/clicking. It looks like the brass wheel is being pressed too hard against the pulley and can't run. I replaced the spring with a weaker spring I had lying around, and now it's feeding (backwards, but that's the typical motor polarity problem). Is this the right fix (replacing the spring) or is there something else I should try?
Thanks!
Has it ever worked? If not maybe you need to increase the stepper current. If it worked a while maybe there is a clog someplace.
Have you tried extruding with the nozzle above the bed.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 23, 2016 08:42PM |
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All this talk of extruders seems to be reinforcing something I'm discovering with my kit, but I wanted to ask and make sure I'm not overlooking something.
I read through the whole thread, but it's sort of blurred together, and even with the custom search, I'm not sure I'm finding what I'm looking for.
My extruder is skipping/clicking. It looks like the brass wheel is being pressed too hard against the pulley and can't run. I replaced the spring with a weaker spring I had lying around, and now it's feeding (backwards, but that's the typical motor polarity problem). Is this the right fix (replacing the spring) or is there something else I should try?
Thanks!
Has it ever worked? If not maybe you need to increase the stepper current. If it worked a while maybe there is a clog someplace.
Have you tried extruding with the nozzle above the bed.
No, this is initial extruder calibration. I did try increasing current, but it didn't seem to help. If you're saying I didn't increase it enough, I can try continuing to increase it while using the old (tighter) spring.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 23, 2016 09:05PM |
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All this talk of extruders seems to be reinforcing something I'm discovering with my kit, but I wanted to ask and make sure I'm not overlooking something.
I read through the whole thread, but it's sort of blurred together, and even with the custom search, I'm not sure I'm finding what I'm looking for.
My extruder is skipping/clicking. It looks like the brass wheel is being pressed too hard against the pulley and can't run. I replaced the spring with a weaker spring I had lying around, and now it's feeding (backwards, but that's the typical motor polarity problem). Is this the right fix (replacing the spring) or is there something else I should try?
Thanks!
Has it ever worked? If not maybe you need to increase the stepper current. If it worked a while maybe there is a clog someplace.
Have you tried extruding with the nozzle above the bed.
No, this is initial extruder calibration. I did try increasing current, but it didn't seem to help. If you're saying I didn't increase it enough, I can try continuing to increase it while using the old (tighter) spring.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 23, 2016 11:18PM |
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All this talk of extruders seems to be reinforcing something I'm discovering with my kit, but I wanted to ask and make sure I'm not overlooking something.
I read through the whole thread, but it's sort of blurred together, and even with the custom search, I'm not sure I'm finding what I'm looking for.
My extruder is skipping/clicking. It looks like the brass wheel is being pressed too hard against the pulley and can't run. I replaced the spring with a weaker spring I had lying around, and now it's feeding (backwards, but that's the typical motor polarity problem). Is this the right fix (replacing the spring) or is there something else I should try?
Thanks!
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 24, 2016 12:35AM |
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All this talk of extruders seems to be reinforcing something I'm discovering with my kit, but I wanted to ask and make sure I'm not overlooking something.
I read through the whole thread, but it's sort of blurred together, and even with the custom search, I'm not sure I'm finding what I'm looking for.
My extruder is skipping/clicking. It looks like the brass wheel is being pressed too hard against the pulley and can't run. I replaced the spring with a weaker spring I had lying around, and now it's feeding (backwards, but that's the typical motor polarity problem). Is this the right fix (replacing the spring) or is there something else I should try?
Thanks!
Has it ever worked? If not maybe you need to increase the stepper current. If it worked a while maybe there is a clog someplace.
Have you tried extruding with the nozzle above the bed.
No, this is initial extruder calibration. I did try increasing current, but it didn't seem to help. If you're saying I didn't increase it enough, I can try continuing to increase it while using the old (tighter) spring.
Do you have the nozzle hot enough for the filament you are using? Is the nozzle near the bed, or higher up? The clicking is the sound of it skipping steps because it can't push the filament through. The weaker spring isn't the right answer, it is just hiding the problem, by letting the filament grind against the gear rather than make the stepper skip.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 24, 2016 09:36AM |
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I'm doing initial calibration, so the hot end is disabled. This is way above the bed, so that I can measure how much it's extruding. ETA: the nozzle is removed, too, so it's not blocking anything.
I put the stronger spring back.
I'll check into whether or not anything is rubbing, as tjnamtiw suggested. What made you think to take your motor apart?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 24, 2016 11:03AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 24, 2016 12:51PM |
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All this talk of extruders seems to be reinforcing something I'm discovering with my kit, but I wanted to ask and make sure I'm not overlooking something.
I read through the whole thread, but it's sort of blurred together, and even with the custom search, I'm not sure I'm finding what I'm looking for.
My extruder is skipping/clicking. It looks like the brass wheel is being pressed too hard against the pulley and can't run. I replaced the spring with a weaker spring I had lying around, and now it's feeding (backwards, but that's the typical motor polarity problem). Is this the right fix (replacing the spring) or is there something else I should try?
Thanks!
Has it ever worked? If not maybe you need to increase the stepper current. If it worked a while maybe there is a clog someplace.
Have you tried extruding with the nozzle above the bed.
No, this is initial extruder calibration. I did try increasing current, but it didn't seem to help. If you're saying I didn't increase it enough, I can try continuing to increase it while using the old (tighter) spring.
Do you have the nozzle hot enough for the filament you are using? Is the nozzle near the bed, or higher up? The clicking is the sound of it skipping steps because it can't push the filament through. The weaker spring isn't the right answer, it is just hiding the problem, by letting the filament grind against the gear rather than make the stepper skip.
I'm doing initial calibration, so the hot end is disabled. This is way above the bed, so that I can measure how much it's extruding. ETA: the nozzle is removed, too, so it's not blocking anything.
I put the stronger spring back.
Before taking the motor apart, if you noticed the gear was turning backwards when you changed springs, I would flip the plug (reverse it at the board) and see if that lets you extrude. They tend to click if running backwards as you grind plastic as you try to get it to go through the extruder. Just a thought.
I'll check into whether or not anything is rubbing, as tjnamtiw suggested. What made you think to take your motor apart?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 24, 2016 05:46PM |
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How long do your guyses print bed take to get to 100c? With 1/8 inch thick glass?
<10 min
Insulate the bottom of the heat bed, and also place a piece of cardboard on top of the glass when it's warming. It'll make all the difference.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 24, 2016 11:44PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 25, 2016 01:58PM |
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So I had an interesting failure last night.
Had an event at my daughters school tonight so didn't get to print until around 7:30. Got home and immediately went to start a print of one of the MPCNC parts I'm working on. But noticed the filament looked "Wrong". Sure enough this eSun PLA had snapped again right at the top of my extruder I even stayed up an extra 30 minutes last night to let it fully cool before shutting things down after printing yesterday...but for some reason this eSun PLA seems to get brittle right above the extruder after printing. Fan is going and it never feels even warm there...but while the filament feels soft and pliable coming off the roll every time I've gone to print with it it's snapped right at the top of the extruder.
(Side note: I never ordered eSun PLA. I ordered Hatchbox from Amazon but was sent eSun with a small barcode sticker saying "Hatchbox" I've had great luck with the two previous rolls of Hatchbox but hadn't tried eSun before. Not sure if this is a bad roll of eSun or if it's always like this but I've had more issues with this roll than with any other filament I've tried so far. It oozes like crazy even at low temps, it strings like crazy even at low temps, it clogged my nozzle, it gets brittle after printing and breaks at the top of my extruder, and it smells almost as bad as ABS. I've heard others say all kinds of good things about eSun so I'm guessing I may have just got a bad roll. I'd say watch out for seller "TOPG" on amazon...except when I ordered it said it was sold by "firesale merchant" and still shows that on the product page with the "You ordered this" message - but when I go into my orders and look at the transaction it says it was sold by "TOPG" so no clue what Amazon is pulling right now. My other two orders of Hatchbox both said "Firesale" and show as "firesale" in my orders.)
Oh well, fired up repetier host and connected to the server - gave a manual command to heat the extruder...then ran it backwards to spit out the broken bit. Seemed fine. Re-loaded the filament, air extruded some to make sure nothing was clogged and all seemed well. Opened rep-server in my browser and hit go on the part I wanted to print. Bed started heating and all seemed well so went to put my daughter to bed.
Came back in a few minutes later...and the printer was just sitting there with the LCD showing all solid white boxes and the C.H.I.P I run rep-server on had apparently powered itself down (which it does if I try to power the printer over it for more than a minute with the printers power supply off.
Hmmm.....
Reset everything, and now CHIP gives a USB error. Tried plugging the printer into my desktop...and windows says there's a problem with the device. Rebooted everything again.
Things are getting odder. The LCD is back and recognizes the SD card...but when I go to select a file to print it say "no card", go back to the main screen and it says "SD Inserted" but go to select a file and still "no card". Tried plugging in the USB again and connecting straight from rep-host...and as soon as it connects rep-host crashes. Hmmmm.....
Turn on the printer with no USB and no lights on the RAMPS and the LCD is dead. Seems like the Arduino is only getting power over USB suddenly.
Of course I just happened to loan my good volt meter to a co-worker for the night. My backup meter is only 1v resolution...kind of a pain to use.
Well, it's up and going but only if I plug the USB into my desktop (the C.H.I.P can't provide enough power over it's port) and print from SD since actually connecting to the USB crashes everything.
So I'm thinking my arduino fried it's 5v regulator. Can't really confirm without my volt meter...but that's my educated guess right now.
Follow-up - I pulled an Arduino Mega off another project, flashed it and swapped it in. All is back to normal. So it sure seems like like the 5v rail got messed up on the original arduino. Co-worker just gave me back my meter so tonight I'll do some further postmortem on the original arduino.
I will say I'm really happy with rep-server on the C.H.I.P for the most part. Liking it a lot better than OctoPrint even though I liked the openness and hackability of OP better. RS just seems more fully featured and better behaved. I do miss the way OP visualizes retractions though.
And while the C.H.I.P. works it's not ideal. It's just powered off a USB cable and a 700ma phone charger, and isn't really designed to power things off it's USB. So it needs a powered hub to work well. If I shut down the printer power supply before shutting down the CHIP then after a few minutes the CHIP will crash because of the power demands of the Arduino/Ramps/LCD setup. So I have to shut down the CHIP first then turn off the printer which means I can't do automated shutdown But for $9 I'm not even close to complaining!
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 25, 2016 03:34PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 25, 2016 04:18PM |
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printer wont connect to rep host.
i keep getting this log message:
No start signal detected-forcing start
Any help would be appreciated. i have searched here but unable to find anything helpful. only thing that might be relevant is maybe it is a clone ftdi chip and computer wont recognize?
Thanks
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 25, 2016 04:27PM |
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printer wont connect to rep host.
i keep getting this log message:
No start signal detected-forcing start
Any help would be appreciated. i have searched here but unable to find anything helpful. only thing that might be relevant is maybe it is a clone ftdi chip and computer wont recognize?
Thanks
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 25, 2016 06:44PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 25, 2016 08:35PM |
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Stupid question:
Sometimes my printer just pauses printing for a few seconds and continues ~10-20 seconds later. Meanwhile the nozzle heats up the already printed layer and a blob forms. (Doesn't look so nice). This happens maybe twice a day. Any ideas what is causing this? Is the PCB heating up too much?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 25, 2016 08:40PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 26, 2016 07:16AM |
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Ah okay - thanks for the info! Guess I will have to keep it the old way with an SD card then.
Or try a different USB cable. Also look at buffer size settings.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 26, 2016 03:01PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 26, 2016 03:09PM |
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Im planning on installing auto level with this proximity switch, below I have made a list of everything I need to do, anything else?
Also since im moving the x endstop to left do I need to change anything in the firmware?
- Upgrade to therippa's firmware
- Move X endstop to left and change the setting's from max to min in rep host
- Change the code in configuration.h that the wiki says to
- Wire it up to the ramps, no idea how to... Help?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 26, 2016 10:14PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 28, 2016 06:39PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) February 28, 2016 07:52PM |
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What kind of extrusion multiplier are you all using? I am using 0.7 right now that seems really low, almost like I am doing something wrong.
Did you calibrate your extruders steps/mm?