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@Wurstnasse
What did you end up doing? On the Delta, the U8Glib routines still introduce brutal pauses in effector motion . . . to the point that just a simple 'G1 Z0 F4000' occurs as three separatemoves with a full stop in between. I had seen some efforts to introduce delays in thr 'stock' Marlin 7290 function, but have not been able to find a combination that works correctly with the Due . . .
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tadawson
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Controllers
Quotemel0n
I am super happy with my E3D V6 so far. The hot end temp curve is insanely smooth now. It used to drop/overshoot by +-5 to 7 degrees while printing. I think that was due to the 40W heater, and horrible thermistor placement. The E3D has a 25W so it can heat more frequently without overshooting, and since the heater-block is smaller the whole thing comes to temp faster even though its 15
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tadawson
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Prusa i3 and variants
Quotecvanclev
Huh. Might try just the Arduino as the budget is tight and the RAMPS board appears okay. Is there a better way to tune the drivers? Considering putting a dab of hot glue on the pins right next to it if they're that crazy close to a short.
Use power supply ground for your black lead, and do it with no heaters on or motors running . . . that way, with no current on the traces, there
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tadawson
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Prusa i3 and variants
Well, I got my first reply from Folger today . . . They recommended putting a corner on each section of extrusion to make three pieces, and then basically distribute the gap, and force it together, pretty much like the prototype part user ended up doing. I'm not sure I consider that an acceptable solution for parts of this cost, and have asked that if they cannot provide parts that actually fit,
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tadawson
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Reprappers
Take a look, and join in the madness! I think Wurstnasse is on a Prusa i3 with a RADDS, and I am on a Kossel with RAMPS-FD v1 . . . I may get a few v2 boards etched, but for short runs, it's about $25/each, plus parts and time to build, so not sure yet . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Controllers
QuoteMarkIngle
Thanks Tim! I have Z level on all points now! However I noticed my X carriage bottom out when testing height on the right side of the bed. I'll dig around for setting limits on print radius. Thanks so much for the help!!!
The Folger has a max radius of about 76mm when built per the docs. That's X=76, Y=0, X=0, Y=76, or, IIRC, X=54.7, Y=54.7, so if if you are trying to get to X
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
QuoteKoenig
Quotetadawson
Adjust "DELTA_SMOOTH_ROD_OFFSET" until it is correct. This is in Configuration.h, and unfortunately, is not in EEPROM, so will require recompile/reload to set.
PS:
Just looked it up . . . To lower the effector in the center, you increase the value. Start small . . . a little goes a long way . . .
- Tim
You can use M665 to set it in EEPROM, no need to recompile.
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
QuoteDaveOB
Quotetadawson
Were it me, I would define a new pinning and function - IE FILSWAP_PIN or some such, map that to pin 41 in pins.h, and then clone and rename the kill function, and then could do either, were I to decide to add another switch . . . The connection between the switch and the function is soft, so why bugger up good existing code?
IE:
pins.h:
#if defined(REPRAP_DISCOUNT_SM
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tadawson
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Developers
Linux. I wouldn't let my dog poop in the box Windows came in, for fear he'd catch something :-) :-)
Honestly, I have no use for WhinDuhs whatsoever, so have never tested there . . .
There are, however enough users of Win*, that I can't imagine it staying broken for long. Looking at your other thread, those are errors due to sloppy programming that the older kit just ignored . . . successful er
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tadawson
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
Not that I recall, I think it just tweaks the center. In any case, once they all match, you can either reset height in Configuration.h, or set an offset with M206 and save in EEPROM.
- Tim
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
Are you aware of Marlin4Due, which has a thread in Firmware-Experimental-Borrowed-Future? This has already been done by Wurstnasse, and is available on GitHub, if you want to avoid duplicating too much effort . . .
And, FWIW, I'm running it now. I had to make a few changes for the V1 RAMPS-FD to get more than just the heaters to invert control (I use chassis fans, and a layer fan . . . That w
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tadawson
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Controllers
Adjust "DELTA_SMOOTH_ROD_OFFSET" until it is correct. This is in Configuration.h, and unfortunately, is not in EEPROM, so will require recompile/reload to set.
If forget at the moment which way causes which change, but it will be pretty apparent once you make your first adjustment.
PS:
Just looked it up . . . To lower the effector in the center, you increase the value. Start small . . . a lit
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
There are basically three parts involved . . . The sensor, a pullup resistor, and the A to D converter in the Arduino. Since RAMPS has three thermistor inputs, and we use two, you can always move to the unused input, modify pins.h, and call it good . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Prusa i3 and variants
Are you against the endstops? If not, then there is at least one problem . . . They should only show "TRIGGERED" if they are pressed.
- Tim
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tadawson
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Prusa i3 and variants
Hey, I'm fine with whatever works for you . . . But to suggest to someone who is having problems to regress to something that may have even more problems . . . Well, I just don't go there myself.
Now you have me wanting to put on 1.6.5 and see if there is an issue on my end. 1.6.4 had a dynamically linked avrdude loader (unlike static for 1.6.3) that would not run on my box, but that was a tr
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tadawson
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
You made a relatively clueless choice to run an ancient toolkit, based on a casual comment that has not been updated, and you blindly defend it. Never mind the fact that most, if not all, of the new stuff works flawlessly . . .
Never mind the fact that they wrote the new ones because the old was deficient/broken/feature poor . . . Not sure you can even build for a Due on those fossilized release
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tadawson
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
First, that's not the Arduino, that's the RAMPS . . .
These are the most common failure I have seen, and are primarily because they used cheap Chinese knockoffs of a Molex connector. The good news is that the board is fine, you just need to replace the fried connector, preferably with a Euroblock screwdown terminal block. If you search, I have posted the info for those before . . . cheap, quick
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tadawson
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Mechanics
Which implies that you need to go to a jurasically antique version of IDE, implying that nothing else works, despite the Marlin release notes no longer making this statement or claim . . . had you suggested 1.6.4, I'd be right there with you . . .
Myself, I'm not a fan of an obsolete toolkit . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
As an off the wall thought, any chance this is a 24v fan on a 12v printer? Myself, I can't imagine a fit bad enough to compromise heat transfer that much that wouldn't be basically flopping around and falling out. Even then, when tightened, the tension on the threads should still make solid contact . . . In my mind, this almost has to be a fan/heat sink cooling issue . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Delta Machines
You would be best served to move your values to the new template . . . I don't think I have ever been able to transport stuff between versions, and a lot of clean up and restructuring has happened in 1.0.3 . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Reprappers
QuoteCustom_Mendel
it is the newest version of marlin and is marlin release
config is attached
Does that imply that you pulled the release branch from GIT? If so, then you have 1.0.2, which is not actually most current, but the most current *released* version. If I recall, autolevel was pretty borked in 1.0.2 . . . you might try 1.0.3-dev . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Reprappers
I confess . . . I did a cut and paste into a file, and was able to immediately find the line numbers . . . not that big of a deal here . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Reprappers
What version is this? There have been a few oddities along the way, but ? ? ?
In any case, it appears to be unhappy that it is being asked to do a logical comparison with a floating point value in the lines:
#if X_PROBE_OFFSET_FROM_EXTRUDER < 0
#if ((X_PROBE_OFFSET_FROM_EXTRUDER * AUTO_BED_LEVELING_GRID_POINTS) >= (RIGHT_PROBE_BED_POSITION - LEFT_PROBE_BED_POSITION))
#if Y_PROBE_OFFSET
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tadawson
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Reprappers
Any chance you took a config file from a different version, threw it in this on, and tried to compile? That almost never works, since they change . . .
Oh, and I just looked . . . I actually never went to 1.6.5 on this system, but 1.6.4 has been flawless on 1.0.0, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3-dev . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
QuoteDownunder35m
You are a bit wrong assuming heat energy produced equals the power consumption.
If I take a given length of nichrome wire and use it to heat to a certain temp it will use far less current than copper getting to the same temp.
Take a 1mm copper wire (for ease o calculations) and @12V increase the current until it reaches a temp of 100° C.
Now a 0.2mm copper wire and do the same.
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tadawson
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Printing
QuoteCustom_Mendel
In file included from /Marlin.h:22,
from BlinkM.cpp:5:
/Configuration.h:440:9: error: floating constant in preprocessor expression
/Configuration.h:445:13: error: floating constant in preprocessor expression
/Configuration.h:449:9: error: floating constant in preprocessor expression
/Configuration.h:454:13: error: floating constant in preprocessor expression
A
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tadawson
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Reprappers
The nuts were is clear air - no contact whatsoever . . . the pieces were floating in free space, with no contact, as well as the nuts turned endwise in line with the slot in the extrusion. I was able to attempt to flex it together, and found the amount of tension excessive, so did not attempt to go that route . . .
Unfortunately, the printer is reassembled with printed parts, so no more chan
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tadawson
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Reprappers
Mine ran hot enough to deform the corners. I turned down the drivers at first, and nlw have fans and heatsinks on my motors. I don't think the change in steps should have much effect, but others may have more insight onthat topic.
I put my filament in a 2.5 gal ziploc with it's dessicant bag . . . so far, so good . . .
- Tim
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tadawson
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Delta Machines