attached plz find the gcode im hoping its a seting somware in skeinforge but to be honest im not sure what half thoes setings doby mupwi - General
Hi I finaly got my printer working after almost 2 years of fighting with it os problems electronics problems firmware problems. well thats all over and I tried my first proper print last night the humble shot glass. The base of the glass whent down nicely albeit with a bit of warping ( a heated bed should fix that) but before it carryed on with the sides of the glass the printer stoped and waitby mupwi - General
Im planing on installing an old laptop I have to me my dedicated print machine was going to do it yesterday but then found that it couldn't boot off a usb drive and we didn't have any Cd's to burn the installation iso's to.by mupwi - General
after finaly geting my printer runing after many months of fighting with it finaly came down to windows causing problems with the serial coms. I am interested to hear what os everyone is using to run there printer. windows linux mac?by mupwi - General
well turns out there wasn't really a problem with the printer. after much fighting with moving cables different firmware installing toroid's running of battery's different pc's. I decided to call in reinforcements and took it over to my brothers house we plugged it into his linux box loaded the repsnapper and wala printing so it seems to be a windows issue ARRRG.by mupwi - General
I droped the baud rate to 9600 no real difrence still get linenr is not the last linenr+1 on like every second line of gcode until it just stops dead at about line 19tried without the laptop power supply conected and going to try this weekend powering the printer off a deep cycle batery to eliminate any posable noise from that supply also going to try printing from my brothers linux machine to sby mupwi - General
tried on another pc didn't make a difference. I am running the techzone monolithic board I think there is only one firmware for it. how low can I go on the speed would 9600 be ok? it is currently set to 19200 will change it and test it when I get home from workby mupwi - General
Hi I am getting the following error quite often and then my printer stops dead any idea what would cause it? linenr is not the last linenr+1by mupwi - General
hi all I curently have a mendel with techzone electronics and am thinking about upgrading them what is the current best electronics available I am looking for hi rez microsteping and hopfuly support for a heated bed and second extruder if posableby mupwi - General
ok worked it out 644p managed to compleat a print but in minature have to look at the steps per mmby mupwi - General
I was thinking we should start a thread where we can each put up our printer spec so if we have a question we can ask somone with a similar machine for help. I notice ppl often asking questions relating to one version of hardware and getting answers relating to another version. ill start bot: techzone laser cur mendel electronics: techzone monolithic electronics exby mupwi - General
thanks no I never received the mail ! question when I upload the firmware what board do I choose the howto I found just says sanguino but when I added the sanguino files to arduino I ended up with 3 sanguino options 644p, 1284p 8Mhz and 1284p 16Mhzby mupwi - General
bump still looking for the firmware almost finished the new hotend with thermistor should finish tonightby mupwi - General
hi I am wanting to change my monolithic electronics over to sprinter can anyone give me a link to the files I will need I am having issues trying to download from github Im hoping there is a mirror else ware or if someone could email them to me.by mupwi - General
thanks also found some more details seems they need to be ntc aswellby mupwi - General
thanks I think ill do the mods and go to sprinter I wish I had just gone for a standerd electronics in the beginning it has meant the completion of my printer has been delayed by about 6 months with back and forths with techzone do you know the specs of the thermistor I have been doing some reading but all I see is 10k , 100k,200k or spisific vendors that I cant get hold of localy would any 10,10by mupwi - General
hi all I have been having wat seems to be endles problems with my mendel and I think ive come to the conclusion it is to do with the techzone monotronics firmware. Is there any other firmware that I could try preferably without having to modify any hardware?by mupwi - General
well I ran it again to get the log file to copy here and this is where it stopped 17:22:49 Echo >>Echo: N411 G1 X91.368 Y91.007 Z2.774 F12000.0 *62 17:22:49 Send >>SendData: N413 G1 E982.6694 *91 17:22:49 Echo >>Echo: N412 G1 F1320.0 *87 17:22:49 Send >>SendData: N414 G1 F12000.0 *98 17:22:49 Echo >>Echo: N413 G1 E982.6694 *91 17:22:49 Send >>SendData: N415by mupwi - General
yes it is always in the same spot line 414 of my 20mm test cubeby mupwi - General
after trying a few things I notice the last line when it falls over is "received start" don't know if this helpsby mupwi - General
hi I have tweak skeinforge to generate gcode that prints nicely but now my mendel (techzone monolithic electronics) stops at about layer 3 repsnapper still says it has a few hours of print time remaining but it just stops dead any thoughts?by mupwi - General
Well I generated the gcode loaded it up in repsnapperand clicked print it homed the extruder then stopped any ideas why. thaught it was the wait for temp line so I deleted that but still nothingby mupwi - General
thanks downloaded it and will give it a try when I get home tonightby mupwi - General
Hi I have a techzone laser cut Mendel kit that I have put there monolithic electronics on I have finished the build and everything seems to be working I am just having a problem generating gcode that produces a decent print I was wondering anyone has the same setup and could send me a coppy of there a skeinforge config or something that I could start with I am running 3mm abs btw. thanks Brianby mupwi - General
THANKS IT DIDNT HAVE THE ECODE NOW IT DOESby mupwi - General
Hi i finally got my mendel up and running hardware wise but now I am having some isues with generating usable g code. Repsnapper just plain refuses and skeinforge generated a usable tool path but seems to forget to tell it to extrude. When I put my stl files into 3dtoolchain it works fine unfortunately I don't have an internet connection at home so every time I need to do a print or tweak a paraby mupwi - General
hi there I original had the thechzone gen 3 remix and have changed to the monolithic electronics. My question is what is the difference between the old tip manger board and the new bed controller board? I can sea the layout is a bit different but are they interchangeable? They both have the rj45 on the one side and 4 terminals for the heater wire and thermocouple I was thinking of using my oldby mupwi - General
Hi I completed tech-zone mendel last weekend. when I connect to it with reprap host it connects fine but when I try to move any of the axeis or try switch on heater the program freezes the extruder temp is also displaying ether 0 or 000. any ideas as to what the problem is?by mupwi - General
have you posably got email addresses for the others I was in contact with kimberly but I had to go away for work for a couple of months and since coming back about a month ago I havent been able to get any response maybe she is awayby mupwi - General
does anyone know if techzone is still operating ore have changed there email address I have sent them 3 emails so far about some isues I have with missing pieces of hardware and have had no responseby mupwi - General