Well I'm absolutely delighted to report that finally, my printer is alive, and has printed something (sort of).
It wasn't 100% successful, but I can't describe how happy it made me to see it printing something after all the hassle trying to make it behave.
So the remaining issues are these:
1) Importantly, the Z axis moves mega slow compared to other firmwares, and is not moving the correct distance that it thinks it is. I researched and found one person's solution to this was the Printer Settings in repetier, to set the Z axis feed rate from 100 to a higher figure. I tried this, and sure enough it moves a LOT faster from manual commands to the Z axis, but when it's printing, it did the first layer or 3, then began dragging the nozzle through the deposited plastic because it clearly wasn't lifting itself up enough for each layer/slice. I'm slightly confused currently as to which speed related (or step value related?) parameter I need to correct in order to fix this, but basically if I can figure that out then it will be able to print real proper stuff at last!!!
2) Minor issue - the extruder thermistor reads the correct temperature, but the bed thermistor reads about 15C too high. This seems odd since I have them both specified as the same thermistor, so why it would think one is a lot different to the other is beyond me.
Other than that though, it appears to be functioning correctly.
I'm so happy to have it at this stage, so if anyone can advise which setting I likely need to correct for the Z axis thing, I'd be mega grateful!!
The thermistor thing is less of an issue but it'd be nice to fix that too admittedly.
Many thanks
:)
It wasn't 100% successful, but I can't describe how happy it made me to see it printing something after all the hassle trying to make it behave.
So the remaining issues are these:
1) Importantly, the Z axis moves mega slow compared to other firmwares, and is not moving the correct distance that it thinks it is. I researched and found one person's solution to this was the Printer Settings in repetier, to set the Z axis feed rate from 100 to a higher figure. I tried this, and sure enough it moves a LOT faster from manual commands to the Z axis, but when it's printing, it did the first layer or 3, then began dragging the nozzle through the deposited plastic because it clearly wasn't lifting itself up enough for each layer/slice. I'm slightly confused currently as to which speed related (or step value related?) parameter I need to correct in order to fix this, but basically if I can figure that out then it will be able to print real proper stuff at last!!!
2) Minor issue - the extruder thermistor reads the correct temperature, but the bed thermistor reads about 15C too high. This seems odd since I have them both specified as the same thermistor, so why it would think one is a lot different to the other is beyond me.
Other than that though, it appears to be functioning correctly.
I'm so happy to have it at this stage, so if anyone can advise which setting I likely need to correct for the Z axis thing, I'd be mega grateful!!
The thermistor thing is less of an issue but it'd be nice to fix that too admittedly.
Many thanks
:)