thanks cozmicray this is great. I will do this. I do have the firmware from my printer. as I ran into issues and someone on here a year ago had it and gave it to me, he also included optimizations shall do this over the weekend much appreciated Yeah I did cut off the notch but the pins are off centre so I would have the rip the entire housing off the motor, so i am not going to do thatby bizit524 - General
sadly i would do that but it is key'd and i can't reverseby bizit524 - General
hey guys. I just installed a titan extruder. looks quiet nice however a few problems. my filament is not extruding at the proper rate, which i will fix by doing this right? steps_per_mm = (motor_steps_per_rev * driver_microstep) / thread_pitch ??? also my motor is now spinning in the opposite direction.. is there anywhere in the screen where i can tell it to go the opposite way? if not where woby bizit524 - General
nevermind I read the entire thread .. it has been updated since I last read itby bizit524 - General
ahhh this is the same exact thread I found before christmas when I was googling about the shortage. Thanks for this But does anybody know why they don't show filament on their website anymore?by bizit524 - General
Hey guys I had a question that I can't really seem to find an answer to. I used to buy Excelvan exclusively because it was super cheap and respectable in quality. However before Christmas I noticed most ebay sellers had it all out of stock except a few weird colours. I originally dismissed it as there was an influx of people buying cheap filament and I'll wait it out. Now checking a few months laby bizit524 - General
Well I have upgraded to the 24v system. very nice. heats up quicker and seems a little more responsive? stronger motors? idk. I printed a few prints and it doesn't seem to be off any more but to be fair I didnt monitor it much. just when it finished I homed it and then measured. maybe taking half of it apart helped realign something that I was missing. will continue to monitor then updateby bizit524 - General
I will try this, I am going to go ahead and upgrade to the 24v system this weekend and well replace the springs with ones I have ripped out of a CPU heatsink they are much much stronger However how would that affect the z axis sipping steps?by bizit524 - General
anybody? any suggestions? There is one thing I have done and it seems to have improve the situation slightly. What I did was loosen the screws that mount the motor to the frame so the motor can move side to side if it needs to while still staying in place. this hasn’t resolved it completely but it skips less steps nowby bizit524 - General
So I have a perplexing problem that I hope someone can shed some light on. For the past 2 weeks every time I printed I had to manually level the bed and each time set the z offset higher and higher. It was annoying and didn't think much about it though as I like tinkering. fast forward to a few days ago when it finished a print there was a grinding noise and the z carriage tried go up at a slant.by bizit524 - General
Thank you this helped alot and saved me a fair amount of time as I was going to power it up with only the heated bed and probe with my multi meter what voltages on the screw terminals. sort good for the fans. I have been needing new fans anyway as mine rattle and are loud will buy 24v hotend @sig did you have to do anything with the firmware or anything? adjust settings etc?by bizit524 - Reprappers
Thanks for this Would the motors need replacing or would they operate fine at 24v? if need be when I get home I can get the model number off of them from my understanding they should work fine as they are dirven by the drivers which are A4988 which accept 8-35 volts. would they need more cooling on them if I juml up to 24v? in my mind I would say no because its more volts less amps so less heby bizit524 - Reprappers
I have a question about 24v system. from what I have read they heat up faster and tons of other jazz which is great. I went out and bought a 24v PSU and a 24v heated bed. I was needing a new bed anyway as it was bent in 1 corner and it pulled so many amps that the cables started to melt because the campany gave me crappy wire (I have since bought better) The board I am using MKS 1.4 >> Itby bizit524 - Reprappers
so what i ended up doing is dipping it for 20 sec then let that dry. it then has a white layer on it, put it in a cup propped abve the acetone and set it on top of my heated bed on for 3 min. it got rid of the white layer permanently. I tried just the vapor without dip it works just much slower had to leave it in there for an hour. not to concerned about details on these models because its onlyby bizit524 - General
haha sorry i misspoke. I kept the nozzle size the same and the setting the same what I changed was extrusion width. still using .5 on nozzle physical size and .5 nozzle size in the settings just smaller extrusion. I suspect if I actually changed it to .3 nozzle size then it wouldn't look greatby bizit524 - General
i just tried it and it works out great! I went down to .25 without any problems on my .5 nozzle then added more top layers and boom beautifulby bizit524 - General
i have a question about acetone dipping. I see there are many ways to do this but not many explanations. There is acetone dipping, acetone vapor. one better than the other? I have tried dipping my item for 30 seconds which produces a great result however after sitting for a long time parts of it become hazy/ white/opaque almost. I can't find any youtube videos on this Has anybody else tried thiby bizit524 - General
I had a question actually about nozzle diameter that I can't seem to find the answer to. I currently have a .5 nozzle on my printer, it works great i use it for wood filament because it clogs if I put a .4 on it. I find it a huge hassle to take it on and off when switching plastics because I have to re-level it etc. My question is since I have a .5 mm nozzle is it able to print at .4 equivaleby bizit524 - General
so i would just put in G91 G1 Z5 like that? Sorry don't know much about gcodesby bizit524 - General
so my end script is pretty basic I set it to turn off fans and motors and bed. and I set the nozzle to move away from the print. However the nozzle move height is just a set distance. I have run into issues where I started a print and it was higher than the move away height and I forgot to change it. for example I just printed a 15 hour print today it was 160mm and move distance was to 150 wheby bizit524 - General
so this is sort of 2 questions that are the same but different at the same time. Let me explain I have octoprint, works great its awesome. I have it on version 1 of the raspberry pi, runs great. I saw in octoprint it has an option to turn on and off the printer. This is great however I am guessing this would involve a relay somehow? because there is no switch on it? From what I found is this Isby bizit524 - General
Just an FYI as a closure for this thread. if anyone ever has this same question/ issue. I did end up ordering the bed I found. I installed it, works beautifully with the hictop bigger bed. Converted it to 3 point bed leveling system which is much better. However one thing i still noticed was it was still taking more to level one side even though the bed wasn't warping. so to remedy this order anoby bizit524 - General
@the_digital_dentist. - Thanks however I cant find anything on ebay for a y- under carriage or undercarriage this is why I am calling it carriage. Same with I can find a ton more items related via google when I search carriage instead of undercarrige, but fine we can call it w/e it still does the same thing @mccarman - yes it deflects upwards. I have already replaced bolts and springs and bentby bizit524 - General
I believe you and i are talking about two different things Thanks for the input but yes it would help with the bent plate. The physical plate that I am printing on is flat, the heated bed and the glass plate are both perfectly flat. with the bent Y carriage (not undercarriage, you have glass plate, heated build plate and y carriage) it is always higher on the bent side no matter how many timesby bizit524 - General
Hey guys So I want to buy a new Y carriage this one specifically Reason is because I have an aluminium Hictop Prusa I3 and the original carriage that it comes with bends. After doing research this seems to be a fairly common issue with these models of Hictop because the thin metal they use. With it warping it makes it IMPOSSIBLE to level the bed unless you want to use auto bed leveling to correby bizit524 - General
Hey guys. I was curious if anybody has ordered for themselves and tested any ABS and PLA from excelvan. I just wanted to know your opinion on it. I know its really cheap and actually I have ordered many reels of PLA from them and 1 reel of ABS. Reason I am asking is I started using the ABS and it seems alright however I wanted to make a slurry of it with acetone to it would stick better. I haveby bizit524 - General
holy crap thanks DJ for all this information I am going to have to absorb it all over the next few days as I wont be able to use my machine due to a large order I am doing on 3d hubs. But after it is done I will certainly try all of this and read through all your information thanks! you've be really helpful koko I will check that stuff out as wellby bizit524 - General
Well I guess I am back to square one and back to no clue. I appreciate all the detailed schematics and suggestions with relays and what not. I thought I had it working but I dont. I have it wired up and it currently sits at 4.9 volts when connected to the Z end stop when I put some metal in front of it it goes down to 3.3 volts. This is NOT enough to trigger it to stop. however when I unplug itby bizit524 - General
I was wondering. I see online that you can cut different colors of plastic and then put them together to make multi color printers. I have a good printer but its not amazing as a high end or business class one. My question is there anyway to calculate how much plastic is used per layer? because I would like to offer a service on 3dhubs to do multi color prints. But I don't want it to be just genby bizit524 - General
I will try the aluminium foil. I tried with my sensor with different things. aluminium, steel and it didn't seem to affect the detecting distance. i was thinking of getting a step up transformer to 24 volts, but then I would have to change the resistors again That is interesting, nice catch about the differencesby bizit524 - General