Printing Speeds past 150.
I haven't really been able to print anything faster that 150mm/s . I have tried, Elegoo rapid pla +, Elegoo Rapid PETG, Other PETG, Normal Elegoo PLA. The printer is pretty well tuned and my graphs look pretty good. The issue seems to be balancing Temperature, Fans, Speed, Extrusion Multiplier, and Pressure advanced, Retraction and detraction speed and length. It just seems that going faster makes it very inconsistent in how much plastic it is laying down. My filament is feeding from a drying chamber and all my filament is stored and dried before using.
I am assuming that I am just butting my head up against the issues everyone has to figure out and balance but I want to ask if i am missing something. I like to make stuff from PETG, ASA or PLA. Is there a better manufacturer of those I should be using? is there maybe something wrong with how i have my feeder tightened or how much friction there is in the PTFE tube that feeds the plastic?...
Stepper missing steps?
Hey! Please help a noob!
I am configuring a vcore 3.1 300x300, it’s a 2 years old kit that got shelved half assembled between house moves.
Im doing the klipper configuration and I got stuck trying to do the z-tilt because randomly at every round it would position the probe in different points while registering the same coordinates....
VC3.1 - SuperPinda - !! Retries aborting: Probed points range is increasing. -Z-Tilt Problem
I have been struggling for some time with a problem concerning the SuperPINDA probe which is becoming increasingly annoying.
The problems mainly occur during the Z-Tilt procedure. Sometimes I have to run the print 2-3 times to get the levelling to fit within the limit of 0.012. It also happens that it is not until the 8th-9th time that the bed is leveled correctly. If the probe fails to make the correct alignment, I get the message:
"Retries aborting: Probed points range is increasing."
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Printing issues on new 500 IDEX
I have mine pretty much setup. It prints pretty well. However when try print something with tolerance let print in place the parts don’t move. I did the flow rate and extrusion multiplier and looks ok. Here is gear tried. What could I be missing?
VC4 Part cooling fan will only run at 100%
Hi all so i have my 4028 part cooling fan installed it works but irrelevant of what percentage i set it at in slicer or manually in mainsail it only runs at 100% or off currently have blue wire from fan going to what i assume is PA0 on the toolboard i have tried the white wire as well ground is going to one of the heatbed neg terminals and power is going to one of the fan headers on the octopus please help here are my config files i use a user config as well pictures to follow
Crash after running belt tension test
it runs through all the frequencies then shuts down with "MCU 'mcu' shutdown: Timer too close" and "Unable to obtain 'spi_transfer_response' response" in console
generate input shaper graphs runs perfectly fine
watching through ssh the 4th core(?) spikes to 100 when this happens, temps and ram seems normal
I am running on btt cb1
I am unsure which log files to upload so please do tell if needed...
Access to configurator RatOS
Looking to access the configurator page..
Here is my current printer.cgf file:...
Part Cooling fan doesn't work
Cable checks out. Tried to change the pins without success. Put it to 100% but it doesn't move
No idea what to do...
Vcore 3.1 500, stops extruding mid print
For the past week I've been having this issue where my printer stops extruding mid print, at random heights. No clogs, just my pla being worn so the teeth don't grip. I think it's having resistance issues in the routing, and putting on a 3kg roll made it even worse. I have changed the routing, put on a 3kg, 1kg and 200g spools, took the lid off, took the door off, nothing changed, still stopping at random points.
Is there anything I'm missing here?
Could it be the extruder that is at fault? I took that apart and it looked and worked fine and clean. It's been driving me up the walls and I don't know where to look anymore.....
IDEX 500 Orbiter V2 Smart Sensor issues.
I am trying to get this setup right on my IDEX, I loaded filament into T0 and T1 and the green LED is on. In GUI shows empty. Any ideas?
Fix my racking
This is a box that went through hell and back. Was a customer return, got improperly packed etc. disassembled a bunch of it and started to build it with framing issues. Had it squared or so I thought. I think it got ruined when I was installing the motor plates etc later in the build when the directions said to take off the joiners etc. anyways, any pointers would be great
No VAOC Camera Image
I am commissioning my V Core 4 400 IDEX. At the "Initial VAOC Calibration" Step I select the "VAOC" tab but never get a video image only the spinning green circle. I did the _VAOC_RESET command and the M84 as specified. The Z Offset and the VAOC LED work properly.
Any help will be much appreciated....
Solution:
I had the same issue. Email rat rig sales. They ended up replacing the camera, board and ribbon cable. This fixed my problem.
Orbitor filament sensor
Having issues with my filament sensor unloading before print even with clog set to false
Endstop dual_carriage still triggered after retract
My V Core 4 400 IDEX was printing yesterday but today I get the error "Endstop dual_carriage still triggered after retract"
The machine is a pre-configured V Core 4 IDEX with BigTreeTech EBB42 V1.2 tool boards on T0 and T1.
Trouble shooting steps taken:
1. Endstop checked for continuity, pass...
Solution:
I swapped the wireharness from T1 to T0 and now X (T0) is triggered so its the wire harness! Now any ideas on where I can get a new wireharness???
Hotend change, what I need to change in klipper and slicer? (Clogging Problem)
Hi there,
I changed my Dragonfly hotend to a Dragon HF hotend on my V-Minion. I installed everything and so far it has printed really well. Then after 10 hours of printing it clogged up twice. After googling around, I need to change the extruder flow parameter. But I don't know which parameter to change in RatOS and SuperSlicer/PrusaSlicer.
I found the flow rate test from Phaetus on github. It says that the printing flow increased from 15 to 31.5mm³/s and the extrusion flow from 46mm³/s to 62mm³/s. ...
Solution:
From your description it sounds like heat creep, so you need to check the fan is spinning at the correct speed and make sure it is blowing across the hotend and not trying to pull air across the hotend. If all that checks out, get a different fan
VCore 4 500 - "Died mid-print, got an ADC out of range now. Thermistor tests 1.074 kOhm
Printer has been printing for weeks, it died midprint with the above errors. Jumper didn't fall off, the leads at the toolboard end test at 1.074 kOhms which I think is correct? Jumper is seated firmly as is the connector
Cables were secured and happy. Printer.cfg is here - https://pastebin.com/4BY69n5v
I have not messed with ratos.cfg. but that is here - https://pastebin.com/2gqfFZ8w
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YeagerBomb VAOC issues
@YeagerBomb
Starting it here so we can keep track, since your messages seem to be getting lost
again going to ask: i am following the IDEX commissioning guide. I have done everything up to __vaoc_reset. When i go to VAOC and hit start calibration it drives my print heads to the fron of the machine NOT the rear. I can not move the print head with out error and the VAOC calibration only allows me to change Z height. What am i missing. How do i set the camera location?!!!...
Solution:
Updating firmware to the most recent firmware fixed the idex VAOC homing issue and it now goes over the camera correctly.
If you have this issue you must update from the June or July rat os image to the most recent release and rat configurator.
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Adding an extra NIDEC Fan
Hi All,
Having a bit of trouble configuring a new fan on my 400mm VCORE4 IDEX machine. I want to add a PWM fan to the enclosure wall so I can create negative pressure within the enclosure and vent the fumes out of the house. I did some math (may be incorrect) and want to try the NIDEC fan used for the parts fans as apparently, I only need to run it at 20% during printing to create negative pressure then run it at 100% for a few minutes after the print to completely vent the chamber. I don't know if this will work, not the subject of the post, but wanted to give background.
My question is; how can I add another 12V PWM fan to the printer? I seem to get a PWM signal when I plug in to the 12V power for the existing part fans, but I can't find another 12V source to plug in to on the board, and trying to wire it like in the RatOS guide by pulling 12V +ve from a fan plug and putting the negative wire into HE1 -ve only provides 10V and the fan won't turn on. Any suggestions to put me out of my misery?...
Solution:
For those that may come here for the answer, this is the code that I used. I realized that I only needed one enable_pin as PA15 wasn't in use, only the Fan15+ pin for power.
[fan_generic enclosure_fan]
pin: PD14
enable_pin: PA3...
Homing sequence kill homing switch
So, this after normal homing.. and the switch gone. Tomorrow RS components send a new one.