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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Bad extruder wire]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I filed a ticket with Solidoodle a week or so ago about this issue, and today they responded offering to send me a replacement cable.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Torque]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-02-24T18:22:17Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Bad extruder wire]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, I am going to order a variety and see what I can put together, if I come up with something good ill post it back here.<br />I went ahead and tested my current cable and found that one of the 4 wires was bad, I assumed the problem was right where the wire connects to the extruder so I stripped off the insulation and found the wire was broken where it goes into the connector, I used some sharp tweezers to pry the crimp open a little and get out the insulation that was crimped in there then fed in the stripped wire and soldered it. I also used a short section of shrink tube around the end edge of the plug to provide some strain relief. It seems the quality of the wire is bad an constant movement may eventually break the other wires so I&#039;ll be getting spares ready.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[leethegeek]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-02-23T17:50:08Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Bad extruder wire]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>leethegeek wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>So I had gotten my Press working very well after all the problems and I was getting great prints, then it started extruding intermittently eventually stopping completely. I had previously adjusted the voltage to 1.5 but I checked it again and it was still 1.5, I have heard that the wire can go bad and people have been soldering them back together so I unplugged the wire going to my Z axis and moved it over to the extruder both on the board and on the steppers and now the extruder is working. Does anyone know of a guide for repairing the wires? are these standard ends I can just order more of?</p><p>Thanks for any assistance</p></blockquote></div><p>Yes, the motor end is a standard. These look like JST PH 6-Pin connectors. They have 2mm spacing. (JST=Japan Solderless Terminal, in case you were wondering. JST site doesn&#039;t seem to say what &quot;PH&quot; is for.) </p><p>You can get them on e-bay, pololu, newark or digikey. I haven&#039;t been able to find them on mouser. </p><p>They require a special crimp tool (Official JST hand crimper is ~$500, clone is ~$35 at pololu) Talking to an EE friend today, the PH pins are supposedly a bear to manually insert &amp; align properly. I haven&#039;t tried.</p><p>You can also get a connector with pre-crimped discrete wires on ebay. (the other end is raw). I have not yet found a ribbon cable harness. </p><p>I haven&#039;t looked at the system board, but from photos, the board end appears to be standard 0.1&quot; connectors. If you have a crimp tool, these are fairly straightforward to put on. (Very hard without a crimp tool. Cheapster that I am, I tried once.) Look at the jst.com home page for what a good crimp looks like. </p><p>Since the SD cables seem to have a fairly high failure rate (at least from the SF message board), your best route might be to replace the SD cable with one from ebay and add the other end.&nbsp; If you go this route, twist the cable pairs to minimize EMI. </p><p>You can also contact one of those sellers and see if they&#039;ll do a special cable for you. (And maybe get them to list it so the rest of us can buy them. <img src="https://www.soliforum.com/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /> )</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[trayracing]]></name>
				<uri>https://www.soliforum.com/user/7353/</uri>
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			<updated>2015-02-23T03:05:15Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Bad extruder wire]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>So I had gotten my Press working very well after all the problems and I was getting great prints, then it started extruding intermittently eventually stopping completely. I had previously adjusted the voltage to 1.5 but I checked it again and it was still 1.5, I have heard that the wire can go bad and people have been soldering them back together so I unplugged the wire going to my Z axis and moved it over to the extruder both on the board and on the steppers and now the extruder is working. Does anyone know of a guide for repairing the wires? are these standard ends I can just order more of?</p><p>Thanks for any assistance</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[leethegeek]]></name>
				<uri>https://www.soliforum.com/user/9659/</uri>
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			<updated>2015-02-22T21:56:45Z</updated>
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