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Ah hah!  I don't know how that could have been changed (or if it's been wrong all along?) but indeed, that made RH able to tell where it is after parking.

Now, let's see if this does, or does not, have to do with this oddly consistent 10mm skip on the Y axis on layer 2.  That is, after the endlessly long heat-up wait...

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Are these values in firmware, the print area depth and width in RH, and the X Max and Y Max in RH all consistent with each other?

#if SOLIDOODLE_VERSION == 3

#define X_MAX_POS 209
#define X_MIN_POS 0
#define Y_MAX_POS 200
#define Y_MIN_POS 0
#define Z_MAX_POS 194
#define Z_MIN_POS 0

I have also run in to a skip that always happened at the same point in the print for no reason, with no grinding noise.  It turned out to be a problem with the endstop wiring.  That would be a long shot since I think you said endstops were set to homing only, but open up the log and see if an endstop hit shows up during the print.

As for the bed, the best thing may be to upgrade the power supply and then go from there.

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I don't actually know anything, but the bed not heating well even when the extruder is off, plus the lights flickering sounds like a short may have worked its way into the system somewhere (perhaps an intermittant one when a cable bends). If you have a multimeter might want to poke around and make sure there really is infinite resistance between things that aren't supposed to be connected :-).

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Re: To sum up, key things to know about the E3D modification

IanJohnson wrote:

Are these values in firmware, the print area depth and width in RH, and the X Max and Y Max in RH all consistent with each other?

Here's my RH printer settings.  Earlier today I changed X Max and Y Max from 200 to 209 at 2n2r5's suggestion, and last night, changed Home X and Home Y to Max as suggested upthread.
http://www.soliforum.com/misc.php?action=pun_attachment&item=3481&download=0

Here's what's in the Configuration.h I used:

#if SOLIDOODLE_VERSION == 3
  #define X_MAX_POS 209
  #define X_MIN_POS 0
  #define Y_MAX_POS 200
  #define Y_MIN_POS 0
  #define Z_MAX_POS 200
  #define Z_MIN_POS 0

// The position of the homing switches
  #define MANUAL_HOME_POSITIONS  // If defined, MANUAL_*_HOME_POS below will be used
  //#define BED_CENTER_AT_0_0  // If defined, the center of the bed is at (X=0, Y=0)
//Manual homing switch locations:
  #define MANUAL_X_HOME_POS 209
  #define MANUAL_Y_HOME_POS 200
  #define MANUAL_Z_HOME_POS 0
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Going to start a new thread about my problem in the help forum since this is getting too far off topic.

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Hunter, I had the same thing happen that you describe in #4. A lot was going on right about then but it seems like I suspected the hot end was dragging on the part to make it jump out of phase 10mm, so I adjusted the bed down a bit with the leveling screws and it stopped doing that. The grinding noise was alleviated by decreasing tension on the filament tensioner arm.

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BTW, yesterday you mentioned that the E3D was not lining up with the drive wheels. That has been noted, you need to adjust it laterally to align it.

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Not sure what you mean about 'drive wheels'.

I am wondering if the Z lift needs to be increased to 2mm, actually, just because making it 1mm was what fixed this problem for me in March.  It's certainly something I can test.  Not sure why it would need to be more with the E3D, though; the Z axis calibration and bed levelling are the same as before.  Then again, no one ever figured out why I needed it in the first place.

And it seems too much coincidence that the park problem is happening at the same time...

I've moved this discussion over to here:
http://www.soliforum.com/topic/4029/par … d-install/

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The E3D is a longer than the stock hot end. Drive wheels: the wheels that push the filament down into the extruder.

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Has anyone figured out how to change the firmware settings on the new solidoodle mainboard? This is the point im at right now. My e3d is all installed just trying to figure out how to configure.

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kristophergroves2010 wrote:

Has anyone figured out how to change the firmware settings on the new solidoodle mainboard? This is the point im at right now. My e3d is all installed just trying to figure out how to configure.


http://wiki.solidoodle.com/update-firmware

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Thank you

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Re: To sum up, key things to know about the E3D modification

If anyone is interested here is the edited firmware hex file for the rev e printerboard on solidoodle 2 with e3d mods.

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