Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) August 31, 2015 11:49AM |
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I finished the induction autolevel sensor this weekend. The hardest part was getting it dialed in initially, and then having to do some serious changes in the configuration since Folgertech makes the X endstop max, which doesn't work with autolevel. Also, animoose and others using E3D's, I would HIGHLY recommend getting this thermistor...
[www.amazon.com]
I learned this weekend taking apart the head to fix a clog that the thermistor/insulation is only good for one screw tightening, after that the insulation falls apart and the thermistor shorts, showing a temp of 999F.
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I finished the induction autolevel sensor this weekend. The hardest part was getting it dialed in initially, and then having to do some serious changes in the configuration since Folgertech makes the X endstop max, which doesn't work with autolevel. Also, animoose and others using E3D's, I would HIGHLY recommend getting this thermistor...
[www.amazon.com]
I learned this weekend taking apart the head to fix a clog that the thermistor/insulation is only good for one screw tightening, after that the insulation falls apart and the thermistor shorts, showing a temp of 999F.
What did you do to make the inductive sensor work? I tried connecting a inductive sensor with both a voltage divider and a voltage regulator. The sensor activated when I brought it close to a metal surface, but the controller still did not register it as triggered.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) August 31, 2015 11:21PM |
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I finished the induction autolevel sensor this weekend. The hardest part was getting it dialed in initially, and then having to do some serious changes in the configuration since Folgertech makes the X endstop max, which doesn't work with autolevel. Also, animoose and others using E3D's, I would HIGHLY recommend getting this thermistor...
[www.amazon.com]
I learned this weekend taking apart the head to fix a clog that the thermistor/insulation is only good for one screw tightening, after that the insulation falls apart and the thermistor shorts, showing a temp of 999F.
What did you do to make the inductive sensor work? I tried connecting a inductive sensor with both a voltage divider and a voltage regulator. The sensor activated when I brought it close to a metal surface, but the controller still did not register it as triggered.
I built the circuit described in this post - [forums.reprap.org]
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 01, 2015 10:47AM |
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Forgive me if this has been covered yet. I am new to 3d printing and bought one of these folgers i3 2020 kits last week. I have it all together but im having a few issues. Im getting a MINTEMP triggered on the extruder and from what I read there should be 100ohms reading on the thermister. I get that with the heated bed one but I am getting no reading at all with the extruder thermister.
Problem number two my Y axis motor wont turn. Ive got my driver set around.550v it just sits there and vibrates back and forth like it wants to do something ( and I have it completely disconnected from the belt and carraige.) Ive upped it more but it just makes more noise but doesn't spin. All my connections are right and my x and z axis move fine (though im going to have to figure out the x axis end stop).I even put in a new driver thinking that was the problem. Think I have something wrong with my board? I'm new and out of ideas. ;-(
Update: I unplugged my z axis and plugged the y axis into that and the y motor worked great. So something is wrong with my y axis in the card somewhere. I have all my jumpers in?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 01, 2015 10:53AM |
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Forgive me if this has been covered yet. I am new to 3d printing and bought one of these folgers i3 2020 kits last week. I have it all together but im having a few issues. Im getting a MINTEMP triggered on the extruder and from what I read there should be 100ohms reading on the thermister. I get that with the heated bed one but I am getting no reading at all with the extruder thermister.
Problem number two my Y axis motor wont turn. Ive got my driver set around.550v it just sits there and vibrates back and forth like it wants to do something ( and I have it completely disconnected from the belt and carraige.) Ive upped it more but it just makes more noise but doesn't spin. All my connections are right and my x and z axis move fine (though im going to have to figure out the x axis end stop).I even put in a new driver thinking that was the problem. Think I have something wrong with my board? I'm new and out of ideas. ;-(
Update: I unplugged my z axis and plugged the y axis into that and the y motor worked great. So something is wrong with my y axis in the card somewhere. I have all my jumpers in?
Any clues or is this a dead forum?
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 01, 2015 01:15PM |
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Forgive me if this has been covered yet. I am new to 3d printing and bought one of these folgers i3 2020 kits last week. I have it all together but im having a few issues. Im getting a MINTEMP triggered on the extruder and from what I read there should be 100ohms reading on the thermister. I get that with the heated bed one but I am getting no reading at all with the extruder thermister.
Problem number two my Y axis motor wont turn. Ive got my driver set around.550v it just sits there and vibrates back and forth like it wants to do something ( and I have it completely disconnected from the belt and carraige.) Ive upped it more but it just makes more noise but doesn't spin. All my connections are right and my x and z axis move fine (though im going to have to figure out the x axis end stop).I even put in a new driver thinking that was the problem. Think I have something wrong with my board? I'm new and out of ideas. ;-(
Update: I unplugged my z axis and plugged the y axis into that and the y motor worked great. So something is wrong with my y axis in the card somewhere. I have all my jumpers in?
Any clues or is this a dead forum?
your thermistor is fried you need a new one. If you have verified it has no resistance and it's wired in correctly.
your Y is set to home max or min when it wants the other or the motor is plugged is backards check for both. Look in Repetier for the homing options.
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 01, 2015 08:05PM |
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So I just get my 2020 Prusa i3 from folgertech and was wondering if anyone else had problems with connecting the sk8s to the frame? It says to use m5x8mm but they aren't long enough... Any thoughts?
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 01, 2015 09:25PM |
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Hi all, still not getting my printer to work. I emailed Folger Tech and waited the two days for a response, but the response didn't fix anything. Here's what I am at: I can connect to the printer with no issues. However, hitting the home x and home y buttons do almost nothing. Sometimes the home x button moves the carriage about 10mm, but never a big sweep to the limit switch. I have tried about every possible combination of movements and some times something allows the y axis or the x axis to move in both directions, but it's random. I believe that hitting home, should ask the machine to move the printer carriage or heated plate until it hits the endstops. Which would either make them 0,0 since they are min endstops or 200,200 if they were max endstops. This isn't happening. Is there somewhere that spells this out for people who are not familiar with these machines? Folger said to move my endstops to the MAX position. That had no effect.
I also noticed that my limit switches are having an issue, I used M119 on the x_min and y_min and they seem to work when hand toggled, but the z_min ignores any input, I used the working y_min plugged into the z_axis_min and it didn't read what was working before, I don't see any solder issues on the RAMPS board. What could be the issue there?
I also notice on pg 28 of the build doc, the x-axis stepper is reversed WRT to the others, that is carried through on the wiring check on pg 38. What is correct? Why is X reversed if this is correct?
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 02, 2015 01:03AM |
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Hi therippa, and others
If I place the printer head in the middle, and home the xaxis, it moves about 10mm to the left, each time I press home it moves about 10mm away from the endstop. That's with the stepper motor plugged in like the picture on p28/38 of the config doc. If I flip that connection, it moves 10mm toward the endstop. The y axis most often does what I would expect, it buzzes along until it hits the endstop in the rear of the machine. The z axis seems like it would want to zero itself, but since the Z_min_endstop is not working, it would just press into the table and cause issues. I'm getting the idea that something is wrong with my Ramps board for both the x-axis and the z_min_endstop.
I have swapped the z_axis_min endstop to test it, and a known good one, doesn't produce a reading in the z_axis_min when doing M119. That same sensor does read postively in the y_axis_min endstop. I also replaced the x_axis motor driver to make sure that wasn't it and it still misbehaves. Also in Repetier, I can use @isathome to make it think it's homed, then move the xaxis in it's little 10mm jumps, and get to a position of say 80, but then when I hit xhome, it moves 10mm away from the endstop and claims a x position value of 0.
Any ideas would be very welcome.
Thanks,
Dave
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 02, 2015 07:58AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 02, 2015 01:58PM |
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Hi,
Downloading that firmware didn't change the behavior. So I want to try moving the Xstop connector over, but that opens a new batch of questions. If I look in pins.h, I think we have Gen7 v 1.4 pin assignment, which says X_STOP_PIN 0, is that what I would change and to what, because Y_STOP_PIN is already 1 and Z_STOP_PIN is 2. Of course, none of that seems to match the RAMPS 1.4 schematic [reprap.org] . Should I be looking at something else than these two places? If I look at Arduino Mega pin assignment, I get the right matches, which is what was suggested in the posts 20 pages ago, but do I change 2 to 3 and make the min pin the max?
Of course none of this will fix my Z-axis not registering, I think that's a board issue. I ordered another board from Amazon last night, which will probably get here tomorrow.
Thanks,
Dave
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 02, 2015 07:09PM |
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Trickiest print so far - printed as one piece (with tiny supports, and a ramp to hold onto the tiny supports)...
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 02, 2015 09:54PM |
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Trickiest print so far - printed as one piece (with tiny supports, and a ramp to hold onto the tiny supports)...
A bit low res, but it looks pretty good. What layer height did you print it in?
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) September 03, 2015 12:54PM |
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Mach
So, I am trying to setup a full graphic lcd controller, but I cannot get the screen to show anything other than the blue backlight. I have downloaded and included the u8glib library in config.h, uncommented
#define REPRAP_DISCOUNT_FULL_GRAPHIC_SMART_CONTROLLER, #define ULTRA_LCD, #define DOGLCD, and #define SDSUPPORT. The contrast pot is set to a proper amount and I am using the latest version of marlin. The selector knob does beep when I press it, but nothing else seem to work. I know a few people on this thread have hooked up this controller, so I was wondering what you had to do to get it to work? Thanks
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So, I am trying to setup a full graphic lcd controller, but I cannot get the screen to show anything other than the blue backlight. I have downloaded and included the u8glib library in config.h, uncommented
#define REPRAP_DISCOUNT_FULL_GRAPHIC_SMART_CONTROLLER, #define ULTRA_LCD, #define DOGLCD, and #define SDSUPPORT. The contrast pot is set to a proper amount and I am using the latest version of marlin. The selector knob does beep when I press it, but nothing else seem to work. I know a few people on this thread have hooked up this controller, so I was wondering what you had to do to get it to work? Thanks