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Topic: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

Hello I am trying to autotune.
I have my printer connected and works no problem
but trying to send a M303 or any command using the RH print panel and the manual send box does nothing?

I am connected
I have tried making a print job with gcode and just the m303 command and hit run
nothing

am I missing something or do I need to use Pronterface?

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Print for fun and for parts for my sports cars
current car is 88 IROC

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

What is the full command you are sending?

I use Mac + RH and it has worked for me.

I wrote this guide yesteryday:
http://www.soliwiki.com/PID_tuning

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

M303 s195 c5 and hit send

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Print for fun and for parts for my sports cars
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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

Yes i do that. Then what should happen? Should i have extruder and bed heated up before hand?

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Print for fun and for parts for my sports cars
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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

jjcuff1 wrote:

Yes i do that. Then what should happen? Should i have extruder and bed heated up before hand?

That is how I have always done it, with it up to temp for at least a minute or two smile

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

Well I think the most effective way to auto tune is to have the printer in a ready to print state because you will be tuning it for the operating environment that you will be printing in... ie... if you have a case have it up to temp inside the case.

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

Ok and then when at 195 n 95 i can send the m303 and the printer ahould do what ? Move cycle? How long it take to tune then tge log should show pid#

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current car is 88 IROC

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

If you send

M303 S195 C5

hit SEND

The printer with start the auto tune program for 195 degrees C it will do 5 cycles of calibration loop this will take a couple of minutes then at the bottom of your screen in the log window you will see three numbers

PXX.XX

IXX.X

DXXX.XX

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

I'm going to rerun this before my next print. I will take a video of the process.

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

Letters have to be in caps.  Lowercase letters will be ignored.

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

Just for giggles on my last autotune I loosened the extruder clamp so I could feed some filament through to give it a 'real' experience in autotuning smile then while it was going I pushed filament through at the rate my normal prints use it... so we'll see if it gets more stable on the next print... it's already pretty solid.

@Ian, Nice catch, I didn't think he might be trying lowercase letters for command but that would make it not work smile

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

CAPS omg so simple you guys rock thanks!

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Re: How do I send Mcode Mac and RH?

I've updated the wiki page to include that gcode should always be in all caps and to also recommend preheating the extruder to the desired temp to more closely simulate a printing environment.