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siderala
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Look what I made!
Nice print mutley, I'll have whatever she was printed with. That blending looks awesome!
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siderala
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General
did you try to run a PID auto tune? are there any fans or ac units close by that could be cooling the thermistor? could be gremlins... look into it and get back to me
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siderala
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Printing
do you have a cooling fan on the print?
if not you need one, the overhangs need cooled or they curl up and cause that ugliness
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siderala
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Printing
i dont know if you can make the supports bigger in cura or not. what are you trying to print? in simplify3d you can place your own supports but that cost a bit of money. there are other free options i think meshmixer has an option to add supports.
if im wrong im sure someone will correct me but id start there.
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siderala
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Printing
looks like you could have a little over extrusion going on too. maybe reduce the extrusion multiplyer
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siderala
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QuoteFloyd
I find that Slic3r's start/stop lines are much more defined than Cura.
i think it has to do with how long it takes to go to the next layer and your right cura seems much more efficient
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siderala
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Printing
did you try reflashing the firmware? which firmware are you using?
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siderala
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General
if you have extra length on restart up too high on the retraction settings it will make a little blob at the beginning of each line.
if you dont have extra length on restart then idk. i think it shows more with over extrusion than anything so maybe back your extrusion multiplier down a bit and try again.
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siderala
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Printing
im just guessing but if you didnt seat the nozzle at the exact same height as the last one, as well as the block, i figure your retraction settings would have to be redone? if its off by a mm or anything it would change the heat distribution from your last nozzle and might cause a need for increase/decrease in retraction length or speed.
i dont know though im really just guessing, try increasin
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siderala
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Printing
what I do is use TeamViewer, gives you access to your whole computer. i have mine on my phone and work computer so i can always watch, start, stop, get home if the house is burning down, that kind of stuff.
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siderala
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Printing
Hello all,
my mendel i2 was running very well. I built an enclosure for it recently and now I have created a large Z-wobble. I printed some z constraints with bearings i put them on just the free hanging end of the rod and still had the wobble. i put them on the top by the coupling as well, then all hell broke loose, one side started going up and down faster than the other.
I took all the rest
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siderala
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Printing
do you know what software was on it originally? I updated to a new version of marlin and it made my printer all funky. downloaded an older version and it worked fine again.
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siderala
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Printing
then im thinking maybe a slicing issue with cura. have you tried a G-code from Slic3r or anything?
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siderala
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Printing
are any of the contacts on the board loose or shorting? it has to be that.
or Demons...your on your own for that though...
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siderala
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Printing
I had that same problem when i started with my I2. it ended up being the Baudrate. it was set to 250000 and I changed it to 125000 and it never happened again.
im about to make the move to the SD card too
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siderala
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Printing
so as I was trying to get the Ninjaflex dialed in on my printer I could tell I was going to run out. the only thing I had that was even close was the PTEG sample I had left from some Chinese manufacture.
I figure I could slide the PTEG in right behind the Ninja after it passed the Hobbed bolt, so I paused the printer and opened up the extruder and pushed the PTEG in and started it again.
We
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siderala
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Look what I made!
hello all,
I am trying to print with ninjaflex, I keep seeing the filament stop extruding pretty soon after the print starts. never in the same place. to me it seems like a clog. I know with flexible filament that it can buckle in between the hobbed bold and hot end opening, however once it does stop extruding there is no pull on the filament at all even though the gear is spinning still. I have
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siderala
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QuoteJamesK
I'd recommend you put an inline fuse in the line from the psu to the bed.
thank you for reminding me to "borrow" from our warehouse! and that is to just protect the Ramps board in case of a surge correct?
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siderala
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Quotejannetta
Hi siderala
Could you explain a bit more about how you wired up the relay please?
I will certainly try. warning though, I am very new to all this so im just saying that this is what works for me and my house is still standing.
two files I attached. the Relay wire guide is the relay i used. it cost like 6 bucks online. it also has the pin out for the wiring. the two tabs at the to
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siderala
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i had this problem last week. it ended up being the Mosfet on my Ramps 1.4 board, the temperature shut off was being triggered and when i touched it on the board right when it started cooling down the board was fire hot. i fixed this by installing a Relay to power the heat bed straight from the power supply and not the print board.
try that
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siderala
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Quotechngyian
From my experience, the extrusion in free air is pretty close to the nozzle size.I was getting 0.4-0.5 from a 0.4 nozzle.
Are you trying to find out the nozzle size or is it part of a bigger problem? You can consider getting one of those nozzle cleaning sets of aliexpress/ebay. Just go thru the sizes and you can find out the nozzle size.
I am trying to confirm my nozzle size, its
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siderala
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hello all,
so ive been running my printer a lot and today my heat bed started cutting off at around 40C. i felt the fuse on the board and it was smokin hot. I have a wiring diagram for using a relay to wire the heatbed to the PSU instead of the ramps 1.4 board. Problem is I cant figure out how to wire the Relay I got. Im putting up a picture of the relay and diagram of whats on it. also will lin
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siderala
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Safety & Best Practices
QuoteDaGameFace
Were these samples fromthe the bed? If so, that sounds about normal, it leaves the nozzle at.5 but them get squished and flattened by the edges of the nozzle. This is by design, it makes the fiLament stick to the bed other layers and we'll as neighboring extrusions much better
no, I put the z axis up and turned the fan on to make it cool right away and grabbed it off the nozzle.
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siderala
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Printing
ill keep it short.
i believe I have a .5mm Nozzle on my printer. last night I manually extruded some filament to measure, I measured many samples and they all were reading .74-.78 mm. is it possible that my actual nozzle diameter may be more around .75mm? or is this over extrusion of some sort?
thanks
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siderala
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Printing
hmm first ive heard of that. any tips on best way to dry?
thanks for taking the time to answer
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siderala
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Printing
so I have had to move my printer to the garage, since then I have noticed a significant increase in what im calling Pitting. I cannot pinpoint exactly what is causing this but one issue I can visually see is while the perimeter is being layed down. sometimes during a lap around the object the nice, smooth, free flowing bead of plastic will abruptly stop, or dribble might be better term, for a cou
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siderala
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hey im not good at this shit but i had that happen to me today. it was because my fan was on during the first layer.
is your fan running?
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siderala
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Quotenebbian
Maybe look at a Printbite surface, apparently parts unstick all by themselves when the temperature drops below a certain point.
Then you could have a flat scoop type thing attached to your extruder, and run some gcode to get your effector to push the parts off the bed into the bin, ready for the next one.
You might have to set things up to not print a skirt, but just print a brim,
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siderala
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Hey All,
I have recently just build my first RepRap. one of my goals with setting up my printer is to be able to have the unit be completely operable from my phone (or computer)
so far I have the easy stuff taken care of, ex. wifi power outlet to cut power incase of emergency, webcam to monitor progress, temp sensor for ambient temperatures, remote computer access to the printer (using Teamview
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