unfortunately with sprinter on gen6 Pronterface is not an option right now, after a long chat with kliment and a few others on irc today i got sprinter "working" with my electronics. the problem with pronterface and gen6 right now is that it will home before starting the print.. then just stop. it will just home and sit there. and if you use the mendel-parts 5d firmware, you get resend errors oby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
I can confirm at least that the electronics restarting is an issue with sprinter on my gen6 board.. i switched back to the mendel-parts firmware, and didn't encounter the problem at all... man this is frustrating Good to hear about your stuff working well jim. Were you ever able to get the teacup firmware to communicate with repsnapper or are you still just sticking with the host software?by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
well i got sprinter running on my gen6 board. but now am running into another problem entirely.. the build gets a few layers in, then the electronics just reset, board shuts off and powers back on. I don't see any errors in repsnapper's log, so i'm at a complete lossby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
that was totally it. in doing everything else i completely forgot to set the baud rate to match between repsnapper and the firmware. Thanksby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
Hey Madkite, would you mind posting your configuration.h file for sprinter. I want to compare it to mine. I got everything to upload to the board, but when I try to connect to it in repsnapper it just times out, and I'm trying to figure out why.by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
Good info Madkite, and sprinter has no problems communicating with repsnapper?by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
thanks jim, I'll give this a shot today. Though I can't test any actual extrusion till i get a new hot end, as mine is kaput. But I can get the firmware on my board and test out movements, and do dry runs of some g-code in the host softwareby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
Jim I would also love to get my hands on your files for the teacup firmware setup for the gen-6 board.. i'm having some trouble getting mine to upload to the board, get a different error every time just about..by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
so if teacup can't communicate with repsnapper, what are you using to send commands to the board then jim? edit: sorry i reread your post and answered my own questionby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
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Does anyone know an accurate way to set heating and cooling rate in the Temperature tab? I've got an approximation from just watching my temperature readings in repsnapper, setting the update to 1.0 seconds, but i'm wondering if there is a better way to figure out this settingby cgjeff - Skeinforge
why not just get a laptop power supply... most of those are powerful enough to run a machine. I got the one i have running my gen-6 electronics on amazon for under 10 dollars.by cgjeff - General
it wouldn't be all that difficult to make a simple mold of your print and make wax castings from that though.. that's the way i would go if i wanted to do any metal casting from a printby cgjeff - General
without seeing pictures i can't really be certain, but the only difference i'm seeing with this compared to any of the other heater block hot end designs that have been popping up everywhere lately is that it has a fan mount.by cgjeff - General
yep I believe ahmetcemturan is correct. I was comparing each tab and it looks like the only thing that has any changes is skirt.by cgjeff - Skeinforge
@brnrd i just tried lowering my retract speeds (original was 30) i tried 15, 10, 5, 4, and 2 i was still getting the errors till i hit 2mm/s retract speed.. while i was happy to see the error disappear, that is an unacceptably slow retract speed and actually makes things worse, because there is a bit of ooze as it's trying to retractby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
i'm watching my log in repsnapper right now as well, and seeing the same thing as you jim. seems like the errors are only coming on mine on a retract.by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
let us know what you find out jim, that sounds very promising towards figuring out an actual solution to this instead of just workarounds.by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
let us know how that works out inh, it would be nice to be certain of what is actually causing the problem instead of just finding workarounds.by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
yea not pushing the temperature too high helps. I'm now using retract (about .75mm works well for me), printing at 200, using clip, and printing infill>loops>perimiter that seems to get around the problem the most. it doesn't completely get rid of the problem of pausing at the start of a thread, but with printing in that order, clip will move mostly seamlessly from one line to the nextby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
well i just tried with your settings for clip mrjohn, and it totally worked, blobs reduced in size by about 90%, I'll up it by another .01 or .02 and that should get rid of it entirely. Thank you so much.by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
that is the hot end i'm using, as he states in there, it melts around 10mm of the filament, which is only a few mm higher than the nozzle itself i believe (i haven't actually measured how long the nozzle itself is) but i can let the filament sit with the hot end heated all the way up to around 200C and just start extruding without the filament bending or being a problem at all. Nor do I get anyby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
good information brnrd, I don't think that solves my problem as the filament is only getting heated a couple mm up from the actual heat zone. And wouldn't explain why there's oozing on every layer including the first few. With your theory there wouldn't be any oozing at first and would get worse as it goes. Whereas I'm getting consistent ooze every layer. Could it be an issue with the gen6 elecby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
it could be the z speed.. honestly I have no idea how to set the z speed in skeinforge. And I haven't noticed any blobs in the infill, so it could just be happening on the outer perimeter at one point I did try doing the infill first to try to get the blobs to stay on the interior, but that did not help at all. That's why I thought that it was happening at the start of each line it's extruding.by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
i'm honestly not entirely sure how long the pause is, but it is under 1 second, but still very noticeable. I'm really getting immensely frustrated trying to figure this out. Could it be some setting in repsnapper that I'm missing maybe?by cgjeff - General Mendel Topics
I recently put together a Mendel Isaac, using Gen6 electronics and an Arcol hot end. I absolutely love the setup except for the fact that anywhere a perimeter starts i get small blobs. Using jitter in skeinforge makes it very easy to tell that regardless of my retract settings the blobs are staying about the same size. The retract settings i have work fantastic to completely eliminate any ooziby cgjeff - General Mendel Topics