Extruder temperature is going crazy.
If I leave the extruder heater at let say 250 celsius for 30 minutes is pretty stable. During the print is reaching insane high peaks. I've not been using the printer so much lately but last time there were no issue at all. Now I cannot complete even the firstlayer_test print which is a 25 minutes print. What's happening?
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Have you run a PID_CALIBRATE ?
yes few minutes ago and without any issue
those spikes actually seem too steep to be real
thermistor might be going bad at those temps?
and mis-reporting, causing the heater to turn on when it shouldn't be?
maybe but how to fix. I've a genuine phaetus the one from the basic vcore standard kit
is not supposed to fail after less than 50 hours print
here the logs, don't know if it can help
replace would be the fix and/or diagnostic step
Actually, triple check the thermistor wiring too
Does the PID_Calibrate show the same spikes?
zero
perfect
Are you using the MAX31865 chip? I and others have had issue with that causing the PT1000 thermistor to read +/- 3℃
So it only does it under heating AND motion, further suggesting its a wiring issue
again i can leave the printer unattended at 240 celsius the temperature doesn't make a move, is a perfect flat line
The spikes are bigger than that
speaking of spikes of +160°
yeah that sounds like a wiring issue if it is only happening while it is moving
this is on the logs
BlockingIOError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailablewhat kind of SD card do you have and how old is it?
on the raspberry you mean?
yes
is pretty new like 128GB
what brand?
I've to check for brand and model
but high performance
I trust the logs when it says it is having trouble writing to disk
SanDisk 256GB Extreme Pro
mmm
yeah that should be a good card. Maybe it got damaged if you are seeing a lot of that in the logs
I'm trying an fsck
let see
with no print running:
thats pretty steady with no movement
meanwhle I'm running a benchmark:
40 minutes without a single spike
can this be the cause?
Yeah, undervolting things wil result in unpredictable behavior. And a thermistor is just a resistor, so if you're trying to measure voltage drop...
updates: changed RPI 3b+ with RPI 4
update2: the rPI is not powered anymore with GPIO, but has a separate power supply at 3A
system load is under 0.5
with some luck maybe I'll be able to complete firstlayer_test print
but still it doesn't look good at all
why? why? why? 😢
why the last 9 minutes of the print were stable?
It was a wiring issue
Tada! Glad you found it 😎
Hi, would you care to elaborate on what the wiring issue was? I am experiencing similar issue on my VC3.1 with Rapido PT1000.
Might be in the same spot, considering it seems to be the same setup
Most likely it was a cold soldering
I put the temperature high and than with the hand I bended spot by spot all the wiring group from the hotend to the frame
And found out that touching in a specific point the temperature was sky rocketing
So as I'm a moron and I didn't want to disassemble and redo properly the junction I just put there ten zip ties at half a centimetre one from the other very very tight and the problem never showed again
Okay, thanks
ill go bend some wires then