I'm re-doing my basement and have to move my printer, I guess I'm going to put it in my office and wanted to try and build something stable that I could easily level wherever I put it regardless of the level of the underlying surface. Based off the bed leveling springs I made this: It's actually really stable and easy to level. Both the lower plywood base and upper MDF surface are 2'x2'.by MD2013 - Let's design something! (I've got an idea ...)
That was the problem and this was the fix Yep the two mosfet plugs need t be clamped to the board connector then the clamsps zip-tied so they don't come off. This is the "perfect fix". Have a new Ramps and will swap it but it actually seems to be working fine like this ... well sort of ... but one problem solved spawned another. I tried printing the Android bot phone holder from thinby MD2013 - Reprappers
Thanks for the replies! I think I figured out the problem and it seems to be bad MOSFET connection on my ramps. If I pressed the onnection up the fans would pick up in speed. I have anpther board but am going to try to jimmy rig this one and see if that is in fact te problem. Thanks again!by MD2013 - Reprappers
So up until now I was printing without connecting the heat bed since it wasn't working but I found a bad solder connection and after fixing it the heat bed worked and everything heated up right and was working. Then I started a print and after a while everything just shutdown. still had power to the board (at 12V) and was still connected but nothing was working. I tried restarting it and afterby MD2013 - Reprappers
OK that's what I figured. Thanks!by MD2013 - Reprappers
Never mind since it wasn't that far along I just cancelled it and will restart it when I get home. Hope everyone has a great memorial weekend!by MD2013 - Reprappers
Hi, hopefully someone can get back to me before I have to leave I started a print for an android phone holder thing an it says it's going to take a few hours ... but I forgot we have to go to a bbq. Would I be able to pause the printing, disconnect and power off the printer, then turn things back on and resume when I get back? I don't mind if there are some imperfections at te point where itby MD2013 - Reprappers
Looks like some sort of composit but anyone try this stuff?by MD2013 - Tissue Engineering
So far so good I'm loving this thing now! Printed the second calibration cube and since it came out well and my kid wanted to watch something print I tried the Mr. Shark Clip from thingiverse, he loved it. My cousin who wants to build one now ordered the Prusa i3 parts by mistake but turned out better to me since I'd rather try something different than another of the same. He was lookingby MD2013 - Reprappers
It's alive!! Can't thank everyone enough for all the help!! Got everything leveled up and calibrated and the extruder all set and just ran the first thin wall test print, I guess by this point I figured something would go wrong but it came out a hundred times better than I expected! I have the heat bed connected but didn't power it on wanted to try without heating it. I used blue painters tapby MD2013 - Reprappers
Couldn't wait until morning so I resoldered a new connection to the extruder and now it runs perfect! If it wasn't 3am I'd start calibrating THANKS!!by MD2013 - Reprappers
Thanks!! That was the problem I had a crappy solder job on one of the wires and it came a little loose when I took things apart. Resoldered it and not it's working. Does what it was doing sometime sin the past where it can't seem to decide if it wants to go forward or backwards but I'm going to just redo that whole connection tomorrow which shuld fix the problem since if I just swap the cableby MD2013 - Reprappers
Man making one of these will sure toil with your emotions! Went from elated to basically right back to where I was in about 15 minute span So I got new stepper drivers in today (actually my cousin's finally came still haven't got mine yet) and swapped out the Y driver that I thought wasn't working for a new one. All the axis were moving perfectly, AWESOME ... except the extruder wasn't worby MD2013 - Reprappers
I originally did have two of the motor wires reveresed on all of them when I first connected everything up. After correcting the wires they started working. I think it's the stepper since if I use any of the other stepper drivers with the Y .. or any other axis ... they all move just fine. It's just this one stepper driver that causes any motor it's connected to stutter (doesn't even reallyby MD2013 - Reprappers
Excellent thanks! So I was making it harder than it is, what's new I'll give it a shot as soon as I get my one replacement stepper in driver today.by MD2013 - Reprappers
Seems like this should be pretty simple once everything else is working but I have another question about homing the axis, watched a lot of vidoes of people showing it working but not how it was calibrated and the documentation I've read is not clear to me. I move the Y axis all the way to the front, esentially Y bed is all the way back, X all the way to the left and Z all the way down a paper'sby MD2013 - Reprappers
OK making some progress I htink ... my cousin wants to try and build one so I wet through and ordered all the parts with him and his ramps board came in today. I already tired replacing the Arduino which didn't help so he brought over his ramps bord just now and I swapped it out with mine. Now the Y axis is at least trying to move. It's getting power and trying to turn but the belt just shakesby MD2013 - Reprappers
I tried disconnecting everything except for the motors but same thing. Strange though I decided to try swapping around the drivers again and (powered everything off before doing anything) and I noticed that if I swap the one that I was using for Y with any of the other axis those axis no longer work, if I switch them back they work again. That was the same for all the axis and the extruder. Howeby MD2013 - Reprappers
Thanks I'll try messing around with the steps/mm and pronterface speed. I had tried using E1 for Y by changind pins.h and just tried it again but still get nothing. I read something about having to set EXTRUDERS>1 somewhere but I didn't find it in sprinter maybe they were talking about marlin or one of the others ....or I missed it. Think I'm going to give a couple of the other firmwareby MD2013 - Reprappers
This site has some good diagrams/explinations as well as a calculator to help figure out sizes/pitch.by MD2013 - Reprappers
Just loaded the test code and get the same results, everything works fine except for the Y which does nothing. The guy on ebay I got the Ramps board from said to try and replace the Mega 2560 and if that didn't work he would replace the ramps board ... which was the first thing I ordered and one of the last to come took almost 6 weeks and I'm not waiting another month and a half so going to ordeby MD2013 - Reprappers
I actually didn't try homing in Y, man would I be both embarrassed and thrilled if that was the problem! I haven't homed any of my axis. For that do I just start pronterface with all the axis to the farthest they go just before tripping the end stops, or do I go all the way to the endstops ... or the opposite way completly? Below is the Y_MAX_LENGTH whixh is set to 200 same as for X. Don't fby MD2013 - Reprappers
Right no matter which physical endstops I have connected to any of the motors X and Z always move fine and Y never moves. If I physically trigger the Y endstop (with any of the three connected to it) with my finger, the red light on the endstop itself goes on but the Y doesn't move regardless if I leave the endstop normal like the others or manually press to activate, no movement at all with Yby MD2013 - Reprappers
BTW I also swapped the X and Y end stops at the board with the same results, the X still works fine but nothing with Y. not sure if it's related but after swaping the end stop cables at the board my extruder motor didn't run as smoothly, made the type of noise it was making when I first tried before I got the driver current and e mm/min in pronterface "dialed in". After swapping the cabes backby MD2013 - Reprappers
Thanks guys. I swapped the end stops and any combination of the three work with X and Z. Y doesn't do anything with any of them conneted. M119 returns: x_min:L y_min:L z_min:Lby MD2013 - Reprappers
Hi, could use a little help with troubleshooting my Y Axis. X, Zs, and Extruder work perfectly and hot end heats up great but I can't get my Y axis to do anything, not even a humm or buzz. I've done the following: 1. Swapped the stepper drivers from working motor to Y axis but same thing. The others still work but nothing for Y motor. This pretty much rules out the stepper drivers. 2. Cby MD2013 - Reprappers
Hi, I see this isn't the most recent post but was hoping to find someone in the NJ to talk to or maybe meet up with. I'm at the calibration phase of my first build a Prusia v2 and could really use someone who knows what there doing to help me get things moving right and calibrated. I'm in Scotch Plains and would be willing to travel or have someone here. Can also meet at my shore house in Belmby MD2013 - New Jersey RepRap User Group