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A bad thing happened today, I turned the potentiometer for the extruder motor driver whilst printing, and the motor driver fried and smoke came out.
I immmediately killed the power.
I can still connect to the board and move all of the axes, just not extrude anything.
I'm guessing I just need to replace the motor driver.
How do I do this on a gen6 board?
The driver is surface mount and there's no
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YES!
Fixed it.
Unplugged everything from the board and inspected it.
It turns out that one of the pins of the USB connector had been bent, so it wasn't connecting at all.
You can see this in the pic.
I carefully bent the pin back with a flathead screwdriver.
Everything now works.
I am so happy now. Was worried my board had been fried.
Now for a long day of calibration and test printing!
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Tried connecting with another computer and still no luck.
I have searched and can't find anything on the rep rap wiki about DFU mode. A picture of my gen 6 board is attached, could you indicate where I put the jumper?
Also, do you know the meaning of LED1 being constantly lit?
Thanks for your help.
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I will try another computer.
In the meantime, what is DFU mode? how do I connect in DFU mode?
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Thanks Hendo, tried this but no luck
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So last night I finished putting together my portabee.
I could connect to the printer fine and move all axes in pronterface, so I printed my very first test object, a 1cm^3 cube with 25% infill. This came out fine.
I then retired for the night with plans to print out a whole load of objects today.
This morning I plugged in the printer and now pronterface can't connect to it
In pronterface's log f
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I have a portabee on order which has just been dispatched, so should only have to wait just under a week now.
They say on the website that it uses 3mm filament.
Does anyone know whether it would support 1.75mm too?
How difficult is it to change the filament size? Do I need to make modifications to the extruder?
Only asking because some websites seem to do a wider range of colours in 1.75 / only h
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Thanks for the advice, So it has been done before...
I would need to pause the print on exactly the right layer, because too little, and the top of the magnet will be higher than the bottom of the extruder, and possibly the extruder will run into it, because it isn't expecting it to be there. Too high and it will start to bridge the top, and then I won't be able to put the magnet in.
How do I mak
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Hello, I am new here, ordered a portabee and it is on its way, been thinking of all kinds of things to make and can't wait.
I have some neodymium magnets, which are very strong, but brittle, and if allowed to snap together or to a surface too forcefully they chip or break.
One of my ideas was to print a hollow cuboid to put them in so that they have a protective plastic casing completely around
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