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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by NULL on 3/20/2025 in #fix-my-printer
New IDEX 500 pre-build problems and need help to decide what to do
From my limited experience and impatience even with a graph that looks like that it will still print with more than acceptable results. Might be worth squaring the thing up and print something and see if you’re happy with it. Otherwise you will end up like a lot of us on here that just keep chasing a better graph when what we had would’ve been completely fine.
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by NULL on 3/20/2025 in #fix-my-printer
New IDEX 500 pre-build problems and need help to decide what to do
Some of this may be explained by the transportation of it. The cracked ooze guard holders will cause your poor shaper graphs. Take them off once the printer is homed and run the shaper. If you do this make sure you put it back on straight away as that ooze guard triggers the y end stop when homing the machine. I had similar cracks in mine from over tightening of the grub screws and the ooze guard set too high
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by NULL on 3/20/2025 in #fix-my-resonance
IDEX 500 Y resonance
Sorry I just noticed in the v core 4 thread that this was pre built for you. So most of what I suggested is probably not much help. Hopefully your supplier rectifies this for you.
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by NULL on 3/20/2025 in #fix-my-resonance
IDEX 500 Y resonance
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by NULL on 3/20/2025 in #fix-my-resonance
IDEX 500 Y resonance
Pretty much everything I described earlier. Aligned everything. Made sure nothing was loose or rattling. I did have to re print some of the tool head parts as I’d messed up with some heat inserts. I do have aluminium y belt connectors ( the ones that sit on top of the y carriage. I actually did these up quite tight as they were a source of vibration) . Get your x axis belt as good as you can before attempting the y belts. Have you used the realtime analysis tool?
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by NULL on 3/20/2025 in #fix-my-resonance
IDEX 500 Y resonance
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by NULL on 3/20/2025 in #fix-my-resonance
IDEX 500 Y resonance
What do your x graphs looks like? How much tension? Unfortunately there’s so many factors that affect these graphs. Start with the basics. Equal belt tension and belt engagement length. Check for any loose wiring and bolts on tool heads. Loose or broken printed parts on tool heads gantry connectors. Loose ooze guards. Loose ptfe brackets. Make sure all of your rails are aligned and evenly tensioned. But I think the most overlooked is the umbilicals. Too many cable ties can be worse than too little. The routing of the umbilicals. Make sure they don’t interfere with each other. Is your machine enclosed? Make your shaper graphs in the same conditions as you print with. Hot end on, bed on at the temps you print with. Graphs can be very different cold to hot. I’m no expert and these are just a few things I worked out along the way. My graphs are decent but like most on here, are a work in progress. Theres some good belt tuning guides on here. Check them out.
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by Aidan on 3/9/2025 in #fix-my-resonance
Struggling with Y Calibration
The fine grey powder is belt material. Slight mis alignment of the pulleys. You will almost always see this with new belts imo. Have you done any shaper graphs?
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by Dave on 1/21/2025 in #fix-my-printer
No VAOC Camera Image
I had the same issue. Email rat rig sales. They ended up replacing the camera, board and ribbon cable. This fixed my problem.
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by Clueless on 12/12/2024 in #fix-my-printer
Vaoc camera not working.
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RRCRat Rig Community [Unofficial]
•Created by Clueless on 12/12/2024 in #fix-my-printer
Vaoc camera not working.
Thanks Helge. I’ll get onto that when I get home from work. Thanks for the reply
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