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Hi everyone,
I have been happily printing all day. Turned the printer off when it was done. Came back to it, turned it on but nothing happens.
Its a custom machine that uses an MKS SBASE board and is controlled through Octoprint. Both being powered from an LED PSU.
When I turn the power on, the LED's that should flicker on the board dont light up at all. The only thing that happens, is my BL
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azz00
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General
Hi everyone,
Im having trouble to get my Mini differential IR Sensor to work correctly with MKS SBASE V1.1
I have wired it up like so;
https://www.flickr.com/photos/67697705@N06/34641515216/
So I am using pin 1.23
What I am finding is that the sensor triggers too early when im trying to home Z.
I have taken a quick video to show what happens when I try to home Z.
https://youtu.be/bxorFygndPU
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azz00
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General
Thanks the responses guys!
Quotedc42
For that size bed I suggest about 720W heating power, based on 0.4W per sq cm. If the bed will be very thick aluminium, you may want to go a little higher e.g. 900W. You could use those heaters you linked to, but an alternative is to have a silicone heater made to your own size, voltage and power specifications here .
Choose a heater a little smaller than yo
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azz00
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General
Hi everyone,
We have just about finished building a printer that will have a build area of 600mm x 300mm but I am struggling to get my head around heating the bed.
From an old printer I have a HKS BASE V1.1 board and a 12v 360W power supply.
I am thinking that my best and most practical option would be to purchase 2 x 300mm x 300mm silicone heated mats like below.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm
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azz00
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General
Really sorry, I meant to reply to this topic last week.
I found that I had to insert a few lines into the config file. http://smoothieware.org/zprobe
It basically needs to know the probing routine, although im not sure why this isn't in there as standard?
If you are struggling with it, I will copy my config file in when I get home.
Thanks
Quotemunchit1
yes a M119 gives a zprobe 0 or 1,
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azz00
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
Hi everyone.
I have just finished building a kossel mini and I am just calibrating the firmware now, however I am struggling with the automated z probe.
If I use G30, everything homes and works as it should do, including the Z mechanical endstop.
However, when I use the G32 command, the endstop/z probe just gets completely ignored and crashes into the bed?
I have copied in my config file i
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azz00
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
Hi,
I am building a kossel mini but the only electronics I have to hand are Generation 6.
I am ware that all the axis have endstops and usually there is probe or similar on the effector.
Do I need to buy some other controller as I only have the pins available for 3 endstops or is there way round having to buy a new controller?
Thanks
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azz00
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Delta Machines
Good point. I will use some washers for now until I get the carbon tubes etc. And yes I will try the refund now and I may be able to glue the corner back together as well. Thanks!
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azz00
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Delta Machines
Hi everyone. I have just bought this kit as well. I have also had the problems with the extrusions not fitting which resulted in me snapping one of the parts! Not cool.
Anyway, I have sorted the frame out now but I have just read through the issues you are having with the rod ends not fitting the roller carriage and again I have this problem. I don't have access to a printer so I can't print ou
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azz00
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Delta Machines
Quotegforce1
Hi,
You didn't what kind of printer you have.
The fault is in your z-axis, it is not moving in a straight line.
Hi, its an orca 0.3
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azz00
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Printing
Hi everyone,
When I print anything at the minute, i have found that the resulted outcome is not perpendicular to the bed. It comes out more like a parrellelgram.
As far as I can tell/measure, the print bed is level and the X & Y axis are square to each other. Also, the extruder looks to be square to the bed?
Does anyone have any ideas what it could be?
Please see the attached images fo
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azz00
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Printing
Hi,
I am building a Lulzbot Taz 4 and I need someone to print the plastic parts & either lasercut or mill the aluminium bed mount.
This is the BOM... Plastic parts and quantity at the bottom
Source files for the printed parts - http://download.lulzbot.com/TAZ/4.0/production_parts/printed_parts/TAZ_printers/
And finally the PDF for the 3mm thick aluminium bed plate ( I also have the DWG
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azz00
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Job Shop: I need stuff made!
I am also in a similar situation to this.
I have enabled the dual Y steppers and changed all instances of Y2 to E0 (Im not using an extruder).
This has worked, however the Y motor that is connected to E0 will only move 1 way.
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azz00
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
I have managed to get this to work for the most part.
Enabling dual Y in the advanced settings and then changing all instances of Y2 to E0 has meant that the motors power up etc and when I move Y towards the front of the machine everything works. However, when I try to send Y the other way, the motor that is attached to E0 still tries to go the same way as before I.E. the opposite way to Y?
C
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azz00
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
Has anyone tried this with a Gen 6 deluxe board?
I'm not sure if it has any available pins to use.
Thanks
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azz00
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General Mendel Topics
Hi everyone,
I have done this in the past but with the latest version of Marlin I am having difficulty.
Basically I am using generation 6 electronics for a CNC mill. I no longer need an extruder so I want to put a second Y motor on the E to have a dual Y setup.
I have copied an instance of e for whenever I saw Y_enable etc in the stepper file but when I go to upload I get the following messag
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azz00
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Firmware - mainstream and related support
QuoteTraumflug
Quoteit will only go one way
You have to do the same for the Dir pin. {x|y|z|e}_direction() in dda_start().
I have changed the following but with the same results?
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void dda_start(DDA *dda) {
// called from interrupt context: keep it simple!
if ( ! dda->nullmove) {
// get ready to go
psu_timeout = 0;
if (dda->z_delta)
z_enable();
if (dda->endstop_check)
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azz00
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Firmware - experimental, borrowed, and future
And my final development for the night...
I have got the stepper motor to work! However, it will only go one way? I.e. both motors take the Y axis back together, but when I press forward the stepper under E goes the wrong way?
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azz00
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Firmware - experimental, borrowed, and future
In addition to the above, would I need to change any of the pin settings, below is what they are at the moment....
/*
this is the official GEN6 reprap motherboard pinout
*/
#define X_STEP_PIN DIO15
#define X_DIR_PIN DIO18
#define X_MIN_PIN DIO20
//#define X_MAX_PIN xxxx
#define X_ENABLE_PIN DIO19
//#define X_INVERT_DIR
//#define X_INVERT_MIN
//#define X_INVERT_MAX
#d
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azz00
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Firmware - experimental, borrowed, and future
QuoteTraumflug
QuoteI am wanting to use the z output to drive a second motor on the y axis.
Likely you simply want to put both steppers onto the same stepper driver, like all the Prusa-Mendel printers do for the Z axis.
Another way to achieve this is to rewire the board and to connect both stepper driver signals to the same ATmega pin.
A software solution should be to add a z_step() to all occ
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azz00
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Firmware - experimental, borrowed, and future
QuoteTraumflug
QuoteI am wanting to use the z output to drive a second motor on the y axis.
Likely you simply want to put both steppers onto the same stepper driver, like all the Prusa-Mendel printers do for the Z axis.
Another way to achieve this is to rewire the board and to connect both stepper driver signals to the same ATmega pin.
A software solution should be to add a z_step() to all occ
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azz00
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Firmware - experimental, borrowed, and future
Hi everyone.
I am using teacup on my gen 6 electronics to run a CNC mill but I am wanting to use the z output to drive a second motor on the y axis. Does anyone know I'd this can be done? Thanks
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azz00
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Firmware - experimental, borrowed, and future
Abit more information.
I believe it is something to do with how I generate the G-code.
Using Skeinforge to slice some STl files seems to work so would I be correct in thinking that there must be a communication issue between my GEN 6 electronics and the way CNC G code generators export their code?
Thanks
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azz00
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CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping
Hi,
I have just finished building a CNC mill using Gen 6 electronics, marlin firmware and repetier.
Now when I run my first job I just get a long list like the following and no movement from the machine.
09:37:20.848 : echo:Unknown command: "N4407 X57.4686 Y65.0622 *67"
09:37:20.873 : echo:Unknown command: "N4408 X57.246 Y65.0858 *115"
09:37:20.873 : echo:Unknown command: "N4409 X57.0254 Y
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azz00
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Repetier
Hi everyone.
I have just got everything set up but I am having trouble with the following;
Using Gen 6 electronics, Marlin firmware and Pronterface.
If I send a Gcode file that I would have done for 3D printing everything works fine.
However, any G code that is used for CNC milling does not work? I just get a huge list of unknown commands and nothing happens?
Attached is the sample G code ot
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azz00
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CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping
If anyone can help I have 1 more query.
I am going to set up a dual drive on 1 axis, now with me not needing the output for the extruder, could I use that output for the extra drive?
If so, how do I configure it in the marlin firmware? I.e. what do I need to change to make the firmware recognise there are 2 motors working on the same axis?
Thanks
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azz00
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CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping
Thanks for those replies, I think I understand it now.
The power supply that came with the board is a universal supply that can go to 18v so I will set it to that to get the most from the motors.
Thanks again.
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azz00
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CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping
Hi everyone.
I am thinking of building a shapeoko and using my gen 6 board from my old reprap to power it.
From what I can find out people are powering theirs with a 24v power supply but the gen 6 is currently running on 12v
However I have no idea if this will work? And would I be correct in thinking teacup would be the recommended firmware for CNC milling?
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azz00
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CNC Routers, Mills, and Hybrid RepRapping
This looks really good. And seeing as though I was about to build a 1.5 I think I will hold on until this is out.
What do you think the build area will roughly be?
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azz00
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General
Just incase anyone else has future issues like this, it was the pulleys. They had cracked for whatever reason so I replaced with the pulleys with some aluminium ones and upgraded the belts to T2.5. All seems to be working very well now!
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azz00
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General
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