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Issues with Beacon Calibration and Input Shaper on VC 3.1 500

Good day, I have a VC 3.1 500 with the Ratrig toolhead, Beacon H, Sherpa Micro, Rapido UHF 0.6, BTT Octopus, BTT 42 V1.2 Toolboard, CNC Gantry, and CNC motor mounts. However, I am struggling to get it to work properly. The Beacon calibration only works very rarely, and I always get the error "Exceed Sample Tolerance." The bed mesh has a deviation of around 0.6mm— is this normal for this bed size, or is it too much? The first layer isn't good, especially on larger prints. The Shaper graphs also don’t seem correct. The graphs captured by the Beacon are significantly different from those recorded by the Toolboard....

Idex, parking not in the center

I assembled v-core 4 idex 300, after parking in the home position the print head is not in the center of the table, on the Y axis it is also not in the center, when calibrating VAOC it is possible to bring the head to the camera only with the parameter position_max: 450.000 in stepper_y, also when calibrating T1 an out of range error appears on the X axis
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V-Core 3 rebuilt after approx 15 mins of use...

V-Core 3 rebuilt after approx 15 mins of use... Well. Firstly FINALLY got around to building my RatRig V-Core3 400... after sitting in the box for a few years. (bad car accident slowed me down in lots of bad ways) Got the machine built, powered up and started to do some test prints...about 15 mins in, got a boatload of driver temp errors, and I shut it down. Long story short... a couple of the Z steppers drivers FRIED on the Duet 3 MIni5+. I used the stock mounting standoffs supplied by Duet, but had no cooling fan on the board as the docs STATED that passive cooling should be 'enough'. NOT. Ugh. ...

Z banding on large prints?

Hi I noticed some strange banding artifacts showing up on large prints and not sure what could be causing it. Flow and PA has been calibrated for the filament and I have not noticed this on smaller prints before.
Solution:
Realy curious on your sliced files. If there is a repetition in the bands, you might want to look and see in the gcode view of your slicer if there is something similar on (for example) cooling on/off, rotation (extruding clockwise vs anti-clockwise), flow, speed. I sometimes see these bands as well and can see on the gcode view for cooling fanspeed a similar patern... switching it on or off over the whole part could tell you someting? Also, Near the corners it seems to be much better. Could this have to do with pressure advance, properly tuned (as you wrote) and that for normal extrusions you have a slight over extrusion?...
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BTT V1.1 Visual clues for a burnt board?

Spent two days trying to flash the board that came with my V4 - DFU/SD card no go. All apps upgraded in RatOS, and DFU seems to work when following the OS install guide (jumper removed prior to flashing). Only power and USB-C connected to the board. Flashing process seems to proceed normally, but always end with some form of "can't recognize the board - reflash."
All red lights (3) and a blue light at the SD card port if card is inserted. Curious what you see on a board that has been flashed successfully....

Vcore4 IDEX duel carriage motor vibrating

Lower right duel carriage motor vibrating when I select X home. It doesn't move.

One beacon probe

I've assembled VCore 4 500 IDEX printer. In Setup wizard I need to specify probe for each toolhead. But i've only got single beacon probe attached to T0. What shoud i select for T1 toolhead?

VC4 Hybrid pauses at random ocasions after Orbiter 2 Smart Sensor was installed.

Hello! There are no error messages or other identifications that something is wrong, printer just pauses itself like the filament would be not present (green light is on), printhead is parked in the front of the machine. I have assembled and configured it as per these instructions: https://docs.ratrig.com/v-core-4-0/orbiter-2-smart-sensor#Smart-Sensor_Build-Guide Any ideas?...

V minion cannot home

After upgrade ratos when home minion stuck…cannot home z….

Rapido 2 thermistor not reading correctly (pt1000 on EBB42-with max31865)

After a full rebuild of my RR vc3.1 300, my thermistor now reads -237,5-ish (MINUS). I think it is caused by my own doing and am looking for some advise on how to proceed: I am running a 3-wire hot end fan to monitor the functioning of this fan (curtesy of Andrew Ellis: https://ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/articles/useful_macros/hotend_fan_monitoring.html). With the rebuild, I accidently put the fan's tachometer_pin wire in a 5V (probe) output of the ebb42 i.s.o. PB9. At first it all worked as before the rebuild. I heated the hot-end and got warnings for fan stoppage (as now is clear to me, as I did not wire it in correctly). I extruded some plastic and got a shutdown due to the hot-end fan not working (all as it should work!). ...
Solution:
if so, you can use run the thermistor wires directly to the Manta and insert the jumper there. Then you set it up on the manta and make sure you have pullup_resistor: 2200 in the config.

Klipper error at Pi bootup - "Unknown config object 'bed mesh' "

New V4 build trying to make it through the configuration of the machine. HDMI feed from the Pi (during the boot) I get a screen showing "Klipper reports:" with the above error listed followed by "Once the underlying issue is corrected use the restart command." Hoping someone has seen and rectified this issue, or otherwise knows a way to correct the problem so I can continue with the setup.
Thanks!...

Extruder temp not in range

Solution:
One wiggle of the umbilical sent the thermistor crazy.
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Tool heads collide

Idex 400. Finished commissioning guide. Did the vaoc comp? Copy and paste dc offsets. Did vaoc again. Did z offset. Pretty sure I did it all correct, in correct order too. When I start a idex print, 2 colors using both toolheads, the toolheads just barely collide when the print starts. When the heads move to center of x and gantry moves y to 0 portion of print start. Thinking it because I have the led fan ducts on the toolheads. Is there a offset variable i can set to give them 2 more mm seperation?...

VAOC Cam freezing

Hello people. I just received the replacement camera sent from RR as the first one was defective (it was the board, hance I haven't used the second band cable and camera sensor) Now I'm trying to go through the VAOC calibration, but the image from the camera blinks all the time (loosing connection and then restoring it every second or two) when in the WEBCAM tab. This is not bothering me as it's not happening when starting the VAOC calibration, but I still can't finish it. The image from the camera freezes randomly through the process and besides the toolheads are moving and the diod is able to be switch on and off, I'm not seeing that as the image is frozen. Firmware restart or Restart is not helping. I need to restart the whole printer and then I'm able to start all over, until it freezes again. The closest I could get is setin T0, but when summoning T1, the image froze again. Any hint's or tips how what am I doing wrong or how to solve that?...
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Bent Lead screw

And i did it by bumping into it :(, does anyone know where i can buy another one in the EU?? i already contacted RatRig but their support seem slow. It is a TR8x4 475mm as i have a vcore4 400mm

Option 'control' in section 'extruder' must be specified

I'm having this problem together with others, but let's start with this one

Octopus V1.1 won't connect via USB

I'm just building my first Rat Rig (a Vcore 4). My problem is: the board just won't show up as a USB device (it's still outside of the printer, without drivers and without anything connected to it). dmesg output always is like:...

Lead Screw Screeching (Vcore4 IDEX)

Has anybody run into an issue where the Z1 lead screw (the rear one) has some random screeching/squeaking. It happens sometimes, especially on fast Z moves (like during z tilt calibration). I am able to isolate it to that lead screw because if I put my hand on it and give it a little pull towards the front of the machine while it is screeching, the sound goes away. I put some light sewing machine oil on the lead screw which seemed to fix the issue, but I was under the impression that the POM lea...

cant flash skrat

so i messed up an update, and broke ratos. I decided to reflash ratos since i had a backup of the config. However; the skrat doesnt seem to get flashed automatically, over dfu or even sd card. I cant imagine the board itself is broken though.. i undid all cables, tried differnt usb cables etc....

"Must home axis first: 0.000 0.000 15.000 [0.000]" Error After Update to v2.0.2-36-g230929e3

Hello, Machine is a RatRig vCore 3.1. 500mm x 500mm. Has been sitting idle for a few months. Powered up and updated to v2.0.2-36-g230929e3. After update I keep getting "Must home axis first: 0.000 0.000 15.000 [0.000]" error. If i SET_CENTER_KINEMATIC_POSITION command is sent, all axis home and print will run. I have attached the Klippy Log and printer.cfg files. Any help would be appreciated....