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Re: Da Vinci 1.0A issues

It's very "cheap and easy" to change the slicer with a 1.0A ......... flash repetier !
Doesn't cost anything, takes 5 minutes, then you can use whatever slicer you want.

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Re: Da Vinci 1.0A issues

scobo wrote:

It's very "cheap and easy" to change the slicer with a 1.0A ......... flash repetier !
Doesn't cost anything, takes 5 minutes, then you can use whatever slicer you want.

Yes, the flash itself if cheap and easy, but the calibration after that may or may not be easy depend on the skill set he have. I wound strong recommend to flash repetier-firmware if he is confident with it and he knows his hardware have no issue for sure.

If he indeed have wire harness issue and he flashed repetier-firmware, then the troubleshoot become even more complicated. It can be calibration issue, firmware configure.h issue or Cura configuration issue.

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Re: Da Vinci 1.0A issues

yizhou.he wrote:
scobo wrote:

It's very "cheap and easy" to change the slicer with a 1.0A ......... flash repetier !
Doesn't cost anything, takes 5 minutes, then you can use whatever slicer you want.

Yes, the flash itself if cheap and easy, but the calibration after that may or may not be easy depend on the skill set he have. I wound strong recommend to flash repetier-firmware if he is confident with it and he knows his hardware have no issue for sure.

If he indeed have wire harness issue and he flashed repetier-firmware, then the troubleshoot become even more complicated. It can be calibration issue, firmware configure.h issue or Cura configuration issue.

Repetier for the XYZ printers already comes preset for the 1.0 and 1.0a. and AOI. All you have to do is set the correct machine in configuration.h section before you flash. All he has to do is adjust the offset of the Z axis slightly then calibrate the bed per the manual steps in the XYZ section here. It really is the easiest conversion of all the XYZ printers. Troubleshooting becomes easier actually because you can use Repetier host as well and send m commands directly through console to read endstop status and to move each axis if needed.

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Re: Da Vinci 1.0A issues

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He is not placing the object. Are you even listening to what we are saying? The object is being placed by his slicer based on the printer dimensions he has the slicer set for. My guess is that he has it set for a 1.0 or other model instead of a 1.0 A. As I said when I ran his STL it was centered because my slicer S3D is set correctly for my printer dimensions. He said he has printed other models with no issues and they should have been placed in the same spot. So again all the symptoms point to a software issue, not hardware. I know you like to consider all possibilities as a scientist but process of elimination here leaves only one thing it can be. The file is good. All other objects he prints are good. Unless he is making changes to his host per print then all prints are done in the same spot. So there is no mechanical or electrical issue either.

ah, I think I misunderstood your previous post. I agree this would happen if he used wrong printer model or wrong setting (the right half of the picture seems to suggest the printer model is correct). If he place all object at the same position and others prints are good, the possibility I mentioned above is not what happening.

my past experience with xyzware is by default the object is dropped in the center not in the bottom right as shown in his picture. And it is not easy to move the object. you need to click and select the object, the click icon in left and change the x axis number and y axis number manually and separately. That's why I think it is strange he have a object at bottom right.

However, I have not use xyzware for 3 month now, it may came up with option to change the default object drop position or even print bed dimension. It is also a well known buggy program, what you said is very likely to happen. But I don't think it is easy or cheap to switch slicer for Da vinci 1.0A to find out if it is the slicer problem. Move the object to center and try to print again is easy and fast. if the print works after move to the center, then it worth the effort to test the wire harness reliability to avoid more complicated issue in the future.

I'm not trying to question your judgement, just trying to offer alternative possibility in case there is easy solution.

A wire harness issue is not an easy solution on a 1.0a. If this was a harness issue then the issue would be in the endstop. All three wires in the endstop are the same color and very hard even for a tech of 20 years like myself to figure out which is signal, which is power, and which is ground, and then trace them to the board and check for intermittent opens. The only marking on the 1.0 board is x, y, z endstop. The pins themselves are not marked in any way. Not only that but they are swapped at the board compared to the sensor.

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