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Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (Tomek) — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:55:05 +0000

OK! Good, so you figured that all. Boss.

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (gwfami) — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:02:12 +0000

I had to reset the y offset so that it would center the print around the center of the bed. That seems to have fixed it.

Tomek wrote:

Cool! That's basically a confirmation of the diagnosis.
It was great right away when you got it to work, but find it also satisfying to know what happened [often the fixes come without explicit answers]
Are you still having problems with the center? And what do you mean by "center"?

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (Tomek) — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:08:56 +0000

Cool! That's basically a confirmation of the diagnosis.

It was great right away when you got it to work, but find it also satisfying to know what happened [often the fixes come without explicit answers]

Are you still having problems with the center? And what do you mean by "center"?

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (gwfami) — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 22:34:56 +0000

That's exactly what I saw, the printer thought it was at y-max but it wasn't.

Tomek wrote:

Interesting. I was going to suggest you restore eeprom. Presumably your y-steps were off. Did you happen to notice that in repetier the printer thought it was at the y-max even although it only got to 30%?
The electrical issue may have caused freak charge that affected your eeprom which is quite volatile to static. I know that the idea of the circuit breaker causing a specific issue for one eeprom value sounds ridiculous, but I've seen weirder magic when it comes to IC chips...I don't question things as much anymore.

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (elmoret) — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:01:15 +0000

I've seen power blips scramble single EEPROM values before as well.

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (Tomek) — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:46:28 +0000

Interesting. I was going to suggest you restore eeprom. Presumably your y-steps were off. Did you happen to notice that in repetier the printer thought it was at the y-max even although it only got to 30%?

The electrical issue may have caused freak charge that affected your eeprom which is quite volatile to static. I know that the idea of the circuit breaker causing a specific issue for one eeprom value sounds ridiculous, but I've seen weirder magic when it comes to IC chips...I don't question things as much anymore.

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (gwfami) — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:58:09 +0000

After shutting everything down, then turning it back on again, pressing the reset button on the solidoodle board, and resetting the eeprom to factory settings, I was able to get it to work again.

Now the only problem is that it isn't quite centering the print.

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (gwfami) — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:55:16 +0000

When homed, all the axis go to their proper locations.

Re: y axis screwy

null@example.com (elmoret) — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:42:43 +0000

Did you home the axis? What happens when you try to?

y axis screwy

null@example.com (gwfami) — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:25:05 +0000

Just had a breaker get thrown, apparently killed power to the computer and solidoodle.

Brought everything back up and noticed that the Y axis is now only traveling about 1/3 of the way from front to back. X and Z axis seem to work ok.

Any ideas of what to do for this? Did the eeprom settings get fried?

Thanks,

GWFAMI