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Topic: DaVinci 1.0a not heating bed or extruder

My DaVinci 1.0a has stopped heating the bed and the extruder.

I checked the usual suspects, namely the fuses / zero-ohm resistors, and they all look fine. (I had previously replaced R271 with a real fuse. And the fuse is fine.) All the power supply connections running into the main board have the correct voltages. The 3.3V, 5V and 12V LEDs are all lit when running. The print area LED lighting works, too, as does the fan (which correctly turns on when the extruder heating is on). The temperatures shown on the display appear accurate.

Putting a voltmeter across the bed or extruder heating connections on the main board shows 0V even while heating is activated in the firmware (I am using Repetier). This is obviously the problem, but I have no idea how to fix it.

If I disconnect the bed/extruder from the main board, power cycle, and then check the bed/extruder connections on the main board, then sometimes I get an initial voltage of 6-11V, which goes down to zero in a second or two. This suggests that it's not just a broken connection.

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Re: DaVinci 1.0a not heating bed or extruder

Problem solved: I was using an old 1mb SD card that isn't compatible with Repetier.

I just switched to another card and all is well.

I am a bit surprised that the config file on the SD card is so essential to Repetier that one cannot even heat up the bed and extruder manually without correct data on the SD card.

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Re: DaVinci 1.0a not heating bed or extruder

does seem a bit strange but it appears problem solved

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4 Reply by yizhou.he (edited by yizhou.he 2019-02-07 20:14:19)

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Re: DaVinci 1.0a not heating bed or extruder

For repetier-firmware, the settings on eeprom are all stored in the sd card. When I flash repetier-firmware for the first time, I forget to reset eeprom data, I have the same issue. But after load failed-safe eeprom setting, everything is functional.

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5 Reply by carl_m1968 (edited by carl_m1968 2019-02-07 20:34:19)

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Re: DaVinci 1.0a not heating bed or extruder

As a standing rule, you really should make sure EEPROM chit chat disabled until you get everything working and calibrated. Then when you enable chit chat all the proper settings will be stored.Also by disabling it on the initial compile and flash you rule out wrong settings already stored being an issue with your adjustments.

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