Installing RatOS 2. What is a "toolboard" and how do I figure out what version I have?
So step 2 of the initial configuration is asking me to pick a toolboard. What is it, and how do I figure out if I have one and what version it is?
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toolboards are used to simplify connections from MCU to hotend
If you don't have one, you can just click skip
Ok. So it IS possible to not have one. I guess that is my setup, then.
I'll fix the title so it's more obvious that it's optional 🙂
Thanks. I'm just about ready to give it a go. Just need to sort out the probe (had to replace inductive for BL Touch again because glass bed now).
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I know, I know... but I am having way too many issues with the bed leveling. I am hoping the glass will help me straighten out a bit.
Why do you think it will help with bed leveling?
The glass is pretty flat. I am hoping to find out if the bed is at fault (warped) or if it is something else. Basically troubleshooting.
At this point, just trying to figure out what to replace in the printer.cfg.
Take a straight edge to it after heating it up
You need to redo all the probe calibration stuff as well as switching the config to use the bltouch instead of the probe
Done. I can see some warping, though I think it would be too little to be of consequence. I was pretty sure the bed leveling would compensate. The probelm, as you may recall from my first tirades, is that it never helped.
Yes, I am aware.
Just can't find the probe config in the documentation.
Still searching.
Take some tape and wrap it around the z leadsscrews to make flags. Then you can watch as it prints the flags move and prove to yourself it is adjusting the print
No, no... it moves, alright. You can see that. The problem has always been that it doesn't seem to be "enough". I don't really know how to better explain it. So imagine a 100x100 base layer. My printer always starts the first layer bottom right corner (front of the printer) and then starts filling in to the top left.
It starts off wonderful. Then you start to notice the lines starting to get jagged and more and more squished. Some light stringing starts to occure.
So I lift the Z a tad (normally 0.05 though sometimes it calls for 0.1).
That is most likely the X gantry bending
By the end of the first layer, sometimes I have adjusted over 0.4mm.
Maybe. Hence the troubleshooting step.
If the glass performs the same, I have all reason to believe I have an issue with X.