Rate my weldi...I mean 3d printing

[Fred Trevvett]

Ok cool

 

[ukracer]

Just doing a bit of googling on this, it would appear that the chip in the filament cartridge dictates the print temperatures. But if I print from cura, does it use the temps I specify in cura or the ones on the cartridge?

Filament cartridge??

 

[ajlelectronics]

Filament cartridge??

Some of these printers use cartridges rather than spools,the idea is to try to make it simple, the cartridge making all the required settings for the material contained within.

 

[Fred Trevvett]

And it's a nightmare because you either have to pay £££ to get the genuine cartridges, or you can take them apart and put aftermarket filament in, but if you do that you have to 'hack' the chip in the cartridge to tell it that it has more filament

 

[daedalusminos]

I know you've only just acquired it but I think if I were you and you're serious about 3D printing I'd look for something else before you invest too much time and money into that printer.

 

[ajlelectronics]

I know you've only just acquired it but I think if I were you and you're serious about 3D printing I'd look for something else before you invest too much time and money into that printer.

Agreed. I did see one for sale secondhand for £150. After looking at the details of it, I decided that it wasn't going to be much use to anyone except maybe a primary school.

The Ender 3 V2 is still available from about £180 anyway.

 

[carbon]

How much cooling fan did you have set?

Looking through the manual I can’t find any mention of one. Searching google quickly show several designs for one but seems the fan then isn't controllable from a slicer

It does seem to be rather restrictive on what the end user can adjust

 

[ukracer]

I know you've only just acquired it but I think if I were you and you're serious about 3D printing I'd look for something else before you invest too much time and money into that printer.

I was just thinking the same. Sell it and get an Ender 3. They are plentiful, cheap, easy to set up and repair.
Profiles can be used from guys who spend hours tweaking them etc etc

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Fair enough, not opposed to that if that's what it comes to. I'll do some more fiddling and see what happens.

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Right, more problems. Getting a bit sick of this to be honest. When I turn it on, it preheats the bed and nozzle absolutely fine. But when I try to unload the filament, the temperature starts to drop, until it says error code 0011 - no power to the nozzle. But clearly it can give power to the nozzle, because it preheats absolutely fine??? Looks like a problem with it's firmware?

 

[ajlelectronics]

Right, more problems. Getting a bit sick of this to be honest. When I turn it on, it preheats the bed and nozzle absolutely fine. But when I try to unload the filament, the temperature starts to drop, until it says error code 0011 - no power to the nozzle. But clearly it can give power to the nozzle, because it preheats absolutely fine??? Looks like a problem with it's firmware?

Maybe it is time to look for another printer?

(Shame you are so far away, I have an Ender 3 for sale now, fully calibrated and including the enclosure.)

 

[AndersK]

Can you send a command directly from the printer Interface?

Then pre heat and send G10 S100, tells extruder to retract 100mm

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Maybe it is time to look for another printer?

(Shame you are so far away, I have an Ender 3 for sale now, fully calibrated and including the enclosure.)

How much do you want for it? If you could box it up I can arrange a courier

Can you send a command directly from the printer Interface?

Then pre heat and send G10 S100, tells extruder to retract 100mm

Not sure how you can do that...but that's not really the problem, the problem is the extruder doesn't heat when it's told to, unless I'm missing something

 

[ajlelectronics]

How much do you want for it? If you could box it up I can arrange a courier

It cost me £150 with the enclosure, so I would be happy with getting that back. It wasn't working well when I got it as the PO had no idea how to set it up and blamed the printer. As you can see from my previous posts, once I calibrated it and loosened off the bed adjustment, it performs better than my direct drive machine with all the "improvements"!

You can see my test prints on the (glass) bed...

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Will pm you

 

[ajlelectronics]

Will pm you

Welcome to ring me if you prefer? 01452 311031

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Well I thought I'm not losing anything by diving head first into flashing it with repetier, it's all but spares or repairs anyway so what's the worst that can happen!!! I've done pretty much everything I need to, got Arduino IDE installed on my laptop, configured repetier .92, wiped stock firmware, went to verify new firmware in IDE and got a couple of error messages - anyone know how to sort these? I'm assuming I can't compile it with these errors, I haven't tried as I don't want to break something. Any advice much appreciated...

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Arduino: 1.5.8 (Windows 8), Board: "Arduino Due (Native USB Port)"

Using library SPI in folder: C:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8\hardware\arduino\sam\libraries\SPI



C:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8/hardware/tools/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4.8.3-2014q1/bin/arm-none-eabi-g++ -c -g -Os -w -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -nostdlib -fno-threadsafe-statics --param max-inline-insns-single=500 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Dprintf=iprintf -mcpu=cortex-m3 -DF_CPU=84000000L -DARDUINO=158 -DARDUINO_SAM_DUE -DARDUINO_ARCH_SAM -D__SAM3X8E__ -mthumb -DUSB_VID=0x2341 -DUSB_PID=0x003e -DUSBCON -DUSB_MANUFACTURER="Unknown" -DUSB_PRODUCT="Arduino Due" -IC:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8\hardware\arduino\sam\system/libsam -IC:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8\hardware\arduino\sam\system/CMSIS/CMSIS/Include/ -IC:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8\hardware\arduino\sam\system/CMSIS/Device/ATMEL/ -IC:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8\hardware\arduino\sam\cores\arduino -IC:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8\hardware\arduino\sam\variants\arduino_due_x -IC:\Users\fred.trevvett\Downloads\arduino-1.5.8-windows\arduino-1.5.8\hardware\arduino\sam\libraries\SPI C:\Users\FRED~1.TRE\AppData\Local\Temp\build7703501508648193387.tmp\BedLeveling.cpp -o C:\Users\FRED~1.TRE\AppData\Local\Temp\build7703501508648193387.tmp\BedLeveling.cpp.o

In file included from C:\Users\FRED~1.TRE\AppData\Local\Temp\build7703501508648193387.tmp\Repetier.h:572:0,
from C:\Users\FRED~1.TRE\AppData\Local\Temp\build7703501508648193387.tmp\BedLeveling.cpp:107:
C:\Users\FRED~1.TRE\AppData\Local\Temp\build7703501508648193387.tmp\HAL.h: In static member function 'static void HAL::serialSetBaudrate(long int)':
C:\Users\FRED~1.TRE\AppData\Local\Temp\build7703501508648193387.tmp\HAL.h:684:14: error: 'class UARTClass' has no member named 'setInterruptPriority'
Serial.setInterruptPriority(1);
^
Error compiling.

 

[ukracer]

Are you sure it's not the thermistor?

 

[Fred Trevvett]

Pretty sure, because you can feel the nozzle going up and down in temperature, matching what the screen says