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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Flash Forge Dreamer - or Flash Forge Nightmare ??? you decide...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>SophiaL wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I&#039;m currently having issues with the Flash-Forge-Dreamer bailing part way thru prints, where it will decide to heat up the left extruder for no reason &amp; hold the drive motor - which also heats up - for no reason at all, then it will send the carriage crashing forwards into the front of the machine....</p><p>I re-install the firmware EVERY day now... new thermal sensors on both extruders totalling £50 from the UK supplier, stripped the front/rear short drive belt now too - its getting annoying, especially after a 2 hr print, and it bails, the head movement freezes &amp; buzzes on the spot in the print &amp; it tries to pump filament into the print that isn&#039;t moving that results in stripped filament chips and soggy extruded filament oozing every where... <br />getting quite sick of it now actually.... especially when a cheap CTC printer is out performing it every day &amp; cost £500 less</p><p>The Dreamer is rapidly turning into a sodding Nightmare....</p><p>Any ideas ?? other than hurling it out of the window ??</p></blockquote></div><p>Do what I did on my CT&#039;c.&nbsp; Swap out the main board for an Azteeg X3 Pro.&nbsp; Uses normal firmware like Marlin or Repetier so changing settings at firmware level is much easier and interfaces with a the common host and is able use standard G code files and commands. I have never looked back or regretted it.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[carl_m1968]]></name>
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			<updated>2016-10-27T04:12:45Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Flash Forge Dreamer - or Flash Forge Nightmare ??? you decide...]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m currently having issues with the Flash-Forge-Dreamer bailing part way thru prints, where it will decide to heat up the left extruder for no reason &amp; hold the drive motor - which also heats up - for no reason at all, then it will send the carriage crashing forwards into the front of the machine....</p><p>I re-install the firmware EVERY day now... new thermal sensors on both extruders totalling £50 from the UK supplier, stripped the front/rear short drive belt now too - its getting annoying, especially after a 2 hr print, and it bails, the head movement freezes &amp; buzzes on the spot in the print &amp; it tries to pump filament into the print that isn&#039;t moving that results in stripped filament chips and soggy extruded filament oozing every where... <br />getting quite sick of it now actually.... especially when a cheap CTC printer is out performing it every day &amp; cost £500 less</p><p>The Dreamer is rapidly turning into a sodding Nightmare....</p><p>Any ideas ?? other than hurling it out of the window ??<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj3BuDfQA2gECACAQcYNA8w">Klingeltone fur handy</a></p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[SophiaL]]></name>
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			<updated>2016-10-27T03:47:09Z</updated>
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