The Helios shipping to Australia was $29.85 - I was just lucky to be able to consolidate a few items with a shipping company to make it affordable. And yes, the Helios is a quality piece of kit.by pnit - General
I agree with DaveX that you may just need some insulation. I ran some tests recently and found that my mk1 heated bed took around 20 minutes to reach 112 C when fully uncovered, which was a few degrees shy of the 115 I was aiming for. Placing a silicon insulator on top (designed for putting pots on) allowed me to reach 115 C in 15 minutes. I also tested a Panucatt Helios with the same setup (eby pnit - General
I've been using a PG35L with a modified Micro-Extruder V5 for a few weeks now. I had to lower my retract speed to 15mm/s to prevent stalling. At the moment I'm using marlin's built in retraction so I can set a separate restart speed of 10mm/s.by pnit - General
If you have plugged your steppers into the two Z-motor headers on your RAMPS board then you have your motors in parallel. This diagram is from the Mendel90 instructions (thanks Nophead!) I'm not 100% sure on the technical explanation, but I'm fairly certain that running the motors in parallel decreases the resistance, hence requires more current from your stepper drivers.by pnit - General
Do you have them connected in series or parallel? My motors did not have enough torque to turn the lead screws when connected in parallel, but in series they are more than adequate.by pnit - General
Which spool were you after?by pnit - Australia, Brisbane RepRap User Group
I might be able to help you out. What material did you want - ABS or PLA? And do you have a link to the parts you want?by pnit - Australia, Brisbane RepRap User Group
Have you made sure you have the right motherboard selected and that pins.h has the correct pins assigned for the endstop?by pnit - General
I had to do a bit of pin editing on for RAMPS 1.3. Had to disable the max endstops and alter the heated bed thermistor pin as well as the fan. All seems well now. I did come across something unrelated - during testing this morning I would home my axes before a print, but the head did not move to the middle of the bed before extrusion started. Previous prints with the same gcode worked. Resetby pnit - General
Found the answer. pins.h had max endstops enabled. eg X_MAX_PIN, Y_MAX_PIN etc. Set those to -1 and now homing is working properly.by pnit - General
Nope, doesn't work on any axis for me. I've been poking around the source code and it looks like the homing code has changed. Could be a bug.by pnit - General
Using mechanical endstops. Pullups are enabled, inverting off. The endstops are functioning - triggering them causes movement to stop. If the x-axis is at 100 and I give the command to home the carriage will move towards the end stop and manually triggering the endstop will stop the movement. What I'm concerned about is it doesn't do the normal behaviour of reaching the end stop, reversing diby pnit - General
I've been trying to get the latest Marlin working on RAMPS 1.3. It almost works - I have an issue with homing not quite working properly. When homing an axis it moves until the endstop is hit and then it stops without retracting. My configs are almost exactly the same Lanthan's, just differing in steps and acceleration. I've tried erasing / disabling EEPROM. An older version of Marlin v1 worby pnit - General
Vik has everything in stock now. The price has jumped up $1 to $29.50 AUD (currency crashed ). There are still a few slots left for those who want to make a last minute order. I'll be submitting the order to Vik as soon as payments are finalized, and the plastic should arrive about 1 week after.by pnit - Australia, Sydney RUG
Vik has everything in stock now. The price has jumped up $1 to $29.50 AUD (currency crashed ). There are still a few slots left for those who want to make a last minute order. I'll be submitting the order to Vik as soon as payments are finalized, and the plastic should arrive about 1 week after.by pnit - Australia, Perth RepRap User Group
Vik has everything in stock now. The price has jumped up $1 to $29.50 AUD (currency crashed ). There are still a few slots left for those who want to make a last minute order. I'll be submitting the order to Vik as soon as payments are finalized, and the plastic should arrive about 1 week after.by pnit - Australia, Melbourne RUG
Vik has everything in stock now. The price has jumped up $1 to $29.50 AUD (currency crashed ). There are still a few slots left for those who want to make a last minute order. I'll be submitting the order to Vik as soon as payments are finalized, and the plastic should arrive about 1 week after.by pnit - Australia, Brisbane RepRap User Group
Hi Guys I'm organizing a group buy of plastic (PLA) from Vik. Everything is in stock except black and white which should be back in stock at by the end of the week. The price per 100m roll is $28.50 AUD, plus shipping if you aren't picking it up from me in Brisbane. I'll be using the upgraded shipping option so everyone can get their rolls quicker. PM me with your order if you are interestedby pnit - Australia, Sydney RUG
Hi Guys I'm organizing a group buy of plastic (PLA) from Vik. Everything is in stock except black and white which should be back in stock at by the end of the week. The price per 100m roll is $28.50 AUD, plus shipping if you aren't picking it up from me in Brisbane. I'll be using the upgraded shipping option so everyone can get their rolls quicker. PM me with your order if you are interestedby pnit - Australia, Perth RepRap User Group
Hi Guys I'm organizing a group buy of plastic (PLA) from Vik. Everything is in stock except black and white which should be back in stock at by the end of the week. The price per 100m roll is $28.50 AUD, plus shipping if you aren't picking it up from me in Brisbane. I'll be using the upgraded shipping option so everyone can get their rolls quicker. PM me with your order if you are interestedby pnit - Australia, Melbourne RUG
Hi Guys I'm organizing a group buy of plastic (PLA) from Vik. Everything is in stock except black and white which should be back in stock at by the end of the week. The price per 100m roll is $28.50 AUD, plus shipping if you aren't picking it up from me in Brisbane. I'll be using the upgraded shipping option so everyone can get their rolls quicker. PM me with your order if you are interestedby pnit - Australia, Brisbane RepRap User Group