1 Topic by Koe123

  • Koe123
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Topic: Voltage issue

Hello. I've triple checked to make sure my stall protection board was correctly dialed in but what happens is this. I tried to start extruding and once some plastic fed into the barrel my volts seemed to drop to about 2 and would jump back to 11.8-12 just a couple times for a split second and go back to 2. What am I overlooking? Could this happen is my heater band is a bad spot and the plastic isn't melted all the way?

2 Reply by elmoret

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Re: Voltage issue

That sounds like motor overload, could be things like thrust bearing failure, no thrust bearing lubrication, debris in barrel, wrong temperature for polymer, really anything that can result in excessive torque load.

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