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How do you know you are at 80? Is that coming from Marlin, or are you reading it yourself? My first guess would be that your thermistor is defined incorrectly, or plugged in to the wrong port . . . . but neither of those would explain why you get a mintemp error (set at 5 by default) when the temp should be rising . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
It's not supposed to reply - it *SETS* values. Use M503 to see what they are . . . Note also that values to M666 *MUST* be negative, or they are ignored. Marlin is smart enough to not try to power through your endstops . . .
M666 Xn Ym Zo
- Tim
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
Possibly the thermistor type, and PID values if you were running a radically different hot end before the E3D . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Ormerod
In Slic3r, it's in the printer section where you can add gcode to run at the beginning, etc, etc. of a print, and, IIRC, the default is something like 'G1 Z5 F3000'
G1 means move
Z5 means to 5mm height
F3000 means at a speed of 3000mm/min
I suspect that Cura has a similar section that needs tweaking . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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General
It takes multiple probes of a point to verify consistent results, and isn't needed unless the probe is flexing/inconsistent. Whether it is enabled or not has no effect on autolevel . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
Try commenting out the feature it is telling you is unsupported . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
You should just be able to edit your values into the Configuration.h from 1.0.3 and be good to go . . . stuff has been added and reorganized, but none of the config parameters have changed since at least 1.0.0 (which is where I started . . . ).But no, you can't just drop the old Configuration.h file into 1.0.3 and have it work . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Controllers
You don't take the file over, you edit the values from the old version into the new version, by reading and comparing. As you have noted, a bunch of stuff has restructured in Marlin, and the old Configuration.h file won't just drop in.
To get the entire release, you need to be up a few levels at You can select 'Download Zip', or, if you feel like installing git on your box, use the link given a
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
That's what I did - 7805 and a small cap dropping the 12v to 5v to feed the servos. If you really want to go low-road, tie the cap ontomthe regulator, attach and shring tube the output lead, and stuff the input and ground into the 12v input connector to the RAMPS . . . works quite well for me, since I discarded the crap Chinese knockoff Molex connectors and went to screw down Euroblock . . . The
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tadawson
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Have you wired in a dedicated 5v power source for the servo, or are you running it from the Arduino regulator? If from the Arduino, I think you just discovered that that regulator isn't up to the task, and you would benefit greatly from adding one.
If you have, then shielding (which I am not sure will help, since PPM to the servo is so low frequency) . . . other than that, not many ideas . . . I
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tadawson
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Quotematthew900
Quotetadawson
I would have liked a few other angles on the photos, but that's it. What part of the kit did you feel the documentaion overlooked?
-Tim
Everything past calibrating the axis. There's nothing on loading the filament, calibrating the extruder, calibrating the temperatures on the hot end and hot bed, loading and printing the test print, and how to make adjustments base
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
How do you propose to measure filament movement if you are extruding, and have no access to the unmelted filament?
If you skip steps while extruding, or the extruder slips, you have bigger problems that need to be corrected prior to calibration . . . and since a step is typically 1.8 degrees and not variable, extruding or not, the amount of filament moved should not change in either case. Myself
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
Quotematthew900
If they included instructions for the part they shipped I would have a starting point which is my complaint.
I tried to put in the 100mm in that box but then it started freaking out about the hot end not being heated. Is there a line command to just feed the filament or a way to bypass the hot end safety protocol?
Just noticed the hotend question was answered while I typed this.
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
Quotemmcginnis9272
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Using something like Pronterface, enter '100' in the length box, and hit the 'extrude' button . . . . Others should be similar. Considering that there are multiple printer interface packages, myself, I can't fault Folger for not documenting things they didn't write, sell, support, or ship . . .
And, unless the drive gear on your extruder is a different dimeter t
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
Using something like Pronterface, enter '100' in the length box, and hit the 'extrude' button . . . . Others should be similar. Considering that there are multiple printer interface packages, myself, I can't fault Folger for not documenting things they didn't write, sell, support, or ship . . .
And, unless the drive gear on your extruder is a different dimeter than what came with the kit, extru
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
Nothing magic that I can see in CAE . . . any of that stuff should build on any relatively recent Linux distribution . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Printing
You want to measure the resistance of the heated bed, not the RAMPS . . . put the probes on either the heatbed wires or solder pads (one probe to each). And I asked about the 'right pads' on the bed because the photo was so narrow, that it wasn't possible to see if those were the only ones or not.
And it sounds like the MOSFET has failed, and needs to be replaced. Whether the problem is a bad be
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tadawson
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Reprappers
The D9 connector should be the terminals between the heated bed and hotnend connector, and should be screw terminals, just like then others . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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You don't have to modify anything in Marlin to support that. Simply uncomment 'SD_CARD_SUPPORT' and 'REPRAP_DISCOUNT_GRAPHIC_CONTROLLER' (or close to that . . ) *AND NOTHING ELSE* in the LCD section and it just works . . . it's already fully supported by Marlin . . .
In Pronterface, you need to select the correct port and speed (it is clearly telling you that you have that wrong . . . the Marl
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Slic3r, because it works, and it's open . . . generally, I avoid proprietary software like a disease, unless there is no option. I build from source, since that gets the most optimal build on most platforms, and Slic3r supports that. I also get to follow development, instead of waiting in the dark . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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If he truly has a shorted bed, it likely overheated and failed.
And I was under the assumption that the LED was only on when autotune or heating was attempted . . . not always. In any case, the MOSFET should not smoke or get that hot if the heatbed is good, no matter how long it is on.
Simple test . . . separate the Arduino and the RAMPS . . . if it still comes on, the MOSFET is pretty much all
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tadawson
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Reprappers
The presets/names mean nothing . . . add a set for your own, put the values that autotune gives you in them, and make sure that your is the only one uncommented, compile and upload . . . .done!
- Tim
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tadawson
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Since heater parameters don't really change unless you change hardware, myself, I just compiled mine in, uploaded, and called it good. To that end, running a PID calibration prior to every print is something I can't see value in, and the routine doesn't store the values anyhow, it just gives them to you.
I have not looked, but are these not given in the info given by M503?
And I can't help on
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Novel, but considering that the shots look like the business end is a MIG nozzle, I wonder how reliable the metallurgy is, considering that the product is basically a sculpted weld deposit, or so it would appear . . .
And you gotta wonder how many *miles* or wire a bridge will consume . . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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If you loaded the exact same firmware image to the new board as was on the old one, then questionable that it's a firmware issue. If you didn't take the jumpers (if this board uses them) to set microstepping from the old to the new board, or one is bad or misseated, then that could do it as well.
Microstep at 8 instead of 16, and you will be at 2x the height, and so forth . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Printing
Temperature? A lot of firmware will not allow the extruder motor to move if the hot end is not heated . . .
- Tim
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Reprappers
Autotune is M303 . . . M301 just sets the values you gave it, and thus has no return info . . . and those would be the wrong values for M303 anyhoo . . . so I'm a tad unclear exactly what you are trying to do . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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It was as clear as mud . . . and it made no sense to talk about current limits of RAMPS is all that was being discussed was the ability or add another independently controlled fan And yes, another MOSFET will be needed for that, but not due to any possible current limitation . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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I think that any of us can truthfully say that is we got paid evertime we took off looking for a deep, complex problem, and in the end found it was something simple like this, well, let's just say a fair number of us would be quite wealthy!
Glad you got it figured out! Have fun!
- Tim
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tadawson
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Printing
Have you checked your steps/mm calibration? If you are running a typical .4 mm nozzle, .3 mm first layer height is pretty much exactly where you want to be, but you can change it in your slicer . . .
If your microstepping is notsetup correctly, that will cause you to be too high also . . . this really looks like a mechanical or setup problem, not bad gcode . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Printing