<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> 2015-12-22T03:59:47Z PunBB https://www.soliforum.com/topic/13082/problem-flashing-printrboard-help-please/ <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> i know with both of my SDs (and both of my Folgertech kits as well), when I first connect to RH, the numbers for the various axis are red, meaning it isn't sure where "home" is. clicking on the Home icon (lower left house - the blank one) establishes where "home" is, and I am then able to move each axis where ever I want to.

My usual start up procedure is:
turn on computer and printer
start RH
Connect to the printer
Click home
start bed heating

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/10399/ 2015-12-22T03:59:47Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112328/#p112328 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Heartlander wrote:

Guys I want to apologize for taking so dang much of your time these last couple of weeks and to thank you so much for your help. My brain is not as quick as it once was but with your help I am rapidly getting back up to speed on these issues.

No need to apologize, it's just frustrating when we miss something that obvious.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2291/ 2015-12-21T23:00:45Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112319/#p112319 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Heartlander wrote:

Okay  jiggering the xy by hand and homing it got the manual controls going. The equivalent of banging the side of the TV set.


It just needs to know where home is. Can't really expect somebody to move if you drop them into a darkroom and tell them to move north now can you?

Just for the record had you clicked one of the house/home shaped buttons with an axis mark it probably had homed that axis without the restart needed. That forces it to move in the home direction assigned in firmware till it hits a home switch or times out..

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/7731/ 2015-12-21T22:50:26Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112316/#p112316 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Guys I want to apologize for taking so dang much of your time these last couple of weeks and to thank you so much for your help. My brain is not as quick as it once was but with your help I am rapidly getting back up to speed on these issues.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2447/ 2015-12-21T22:47:05Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112315/#p112315 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Okay  jiggering the xy by hand and homing it got the manual controls going. The equivalent of banging the side of the TV set.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2447/ 2015-12-21T22:42:00Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112314/#p112314 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> On the newest RH I have found it does not always slice then automatically print. Sometimes you have to click load and load the sliced gcode then click print/run.

I now use Simplify3d so my RH knowledge is old.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/7731/ 2015-12-21T22:33:07Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112313/#p112313 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Heartlander wrote:

Here's one thing that helped confuse me. The Fan icon is crossed out too yet it is running constantly.

I concluded that since clicking the Fan icon did nothing it was not an on-off, just an error indication.

Grrr


Your fan is most likely connected to an always on source and not a controlled source. That fan button is for a PWM controlled fan and is mapped to a specific port that you may not be using.

As for the movement, first make sure you start from home. If the printer cannot establish home it will not move. Put the head and bed in home position as Ward said by hand. Then shut down and restart everything. Connect with RH. Then try to move the axis by clicking the button inside the ring. Depending on which button you click it will move from 1mm per click all the way out to 100 mm per click.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/7731/ 2015-12-21T22:31:10Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112312/#p112312 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Read my above post on your control issues

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2291/ 2015-12-21T22:28:52Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112311/#p112311 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> and after loading and slicing a job it wont print

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2447/ 2015-12-21T22:28:16Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112310/#p112310 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> It's all good, this is how we learn and there is no disputing that new RH interface isn't the best.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2291/ 2015-12-21T22:27:24Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112309/#p112309 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Why dont manual controls work?

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2447/ 2015-12-21T22:26:40Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112308/#p112308 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Maybe it has something to do with the torture you've been putting the firmware through the last couple weeks wink
Do you know where to click to make an axis move? Or are you hoping it just does it magically on its own?
Try moving X and y by hand to the endstops then shut everything down including power and computer.  Then start it all back up and see if that helps.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2291/ 2015-12-21T22:25:55Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112307/#p112307 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> Here's one thing that helped confuse me. The Fan icon is crossed out too yet it is running constantly.

I concluded that since clicking the Fan icon did nothing it was not an on-off, just an error indication.

Grrr

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2447/ 2015-12-21T22:24:03Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112305/#p112305 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> I was used to the old RH.

So now, everything is heated up, the bed is 85, the extruder is 200 and none of the manual controls will work, xyz or extruder.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2447/ 2015-12-21T22:19:30Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112303/#p112303 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> So this whole time, you are telling us that you didn't know how to turn the heaters on???
I don't know whether to laugh or cry!!!

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/2291/ 2015-12-21T22:13:45Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/112302/#p112302