<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/13082/problem-flashing-printrboard-help-please/ Tue, 22 Dec 2015 03:59:47 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112328/#p112328 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

]]> Tue, 22 Dec 2015 03:59:47 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112328/#p112328 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112319/#p112319 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.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:00:45 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112319/#p112319 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112316/#p112316 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..

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:50:26 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112316/#p112316 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112315/#p112315 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.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:47:05 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112315/#p112315 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112314/#p112314 Okay  jiggering the xy by hand and homing it got the manual controls going. The equivalent of banging the side of the TV set.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:42:00 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112314/#p112314 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112313/#p112313 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.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:33:07 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112313/#p112313 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112312/#p112312 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.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:31:10 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112312/#p112312 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112311/#p112311 Read my above post on your control issues

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:28:52 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112311/#p112311 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112310/#p112310 and after loading and slicing a job it wont print

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:28:16 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112310/#p112310 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112309/#p112309 It's all good, this is how we learn and there is no disputing that new RH interface isn't the best.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:27:24 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112309/#p112309 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112308/#p112308 Why dont manual controls work?

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:26:40 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112308/#p112308 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112307/#p112307 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.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:25:55 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112307/#p112307 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112305/#p112305 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

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:24:03 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112305/#p112305 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112303/#p112303 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.

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:19:30 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112303/#p112303 <![CDATA[Re: Problem flashing Printrboard. Help please.]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/112302/#p112302 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!!!

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:13:45 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/112302/#p112302