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Re: x axis homing to left?

PSU = power supply unit

The more current you draw from a power supply, the more heat it generates internally (and usually the more wobbly the power output becomes). Heat tends to reduce the overall life of electronic things somewhat, but this is hard to confirm or predict most of the time. Also, when loaded heavily, the voltage output can be lower than it should be and vary quite a lot (often at frequencies you won't see with a multimeter), and this may not be acceptable to the solidoodle board (if it's not happy, it will let you know with heater errors etc.). A partly-loaded larger supply usually produces much cleaner output than a fully-loaded smaller one.

As excited as I am by printer mods, I'll reiterate: try with the stock supply first, our experience shows nothing's going to die on you!

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Re: x axis homing to left?

ryan-mm85 wrote:
wardjr wrote:

I know of three SD3's running E3D's with stock power supplies with no troubles.  That being said the stock PSU is maxed out and it is a worthy upgrade.

PSU iswhat exactly?

and having that maxed out is that bad in the long run?

PSU Power Supply Unit.  It's not a bad thing for it to be maxed out unless it fails.  All I was trying to say is you'd be foolish to not at least try your stock Power Supply it may work just fine.  Once things are up to temp they are cycling on and off and use less power.  If it doesn't work then you can upgrade the power supply.

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ok cool.
im going to put the hotend together later today.
updates to come.

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I think I fixed the tolerance issue I was talking about earlier.
the right carriage top part that secures the 5mm pin for the pull was snaped so that slack or lash would account 100% for how much I was off on the y axis.

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where is the best source for doing the firmware/ software update/flash for the E3D?

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Eleventh post down from en-rage has pretty much all the info.
http://www.soliforum.com/topic/4520/e3d … lp/page/2/

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57 (edited by ryan-mm85 2014-04-20 00:13:07)

Re: x axis homing to left?

wardjr wrote:

Eleventh post down from en-rage has pretty much all the info.
http://www.soliforum.com/topic/4520/e3d … lp/page/2/

hey for the hotend holder lawsy design... if there isn't any play is that ok. it seems tight enough. think it will be ok?

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Re: x axis homing to left?

as long as it can't move you should be good.

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59 (edited by ryan-mm85 2014-04-20 00:15:29)

Re: x axis homing to left?

ok because the one you had me make I used a bit of flow increase to make it super solid. so its way too tight, and I cant get it in. lol

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Re: x axis homing to left?

A good flat blade screwdriver or small chisel works great for cleaning up that J-mount.  Just use the other one until it begins to wobble.

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ok cool. because its so tight it dosnt want to fit almost lol

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does it matter for thermistor what wire is connected to what? for the wiring?

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Nope

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how did you guys set up the fan for the hotend?
should I just cut the fan wires for the motor, solder in the other fan in while reconnecting the wires, throw some shrink wrap on them?

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Re: x axis homing to left?

That will work just fine.  I am not a huge fan of soldering as it seems to break right behind the joint.  It will work fine though if it can't wiggle around.

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66 (edited by ryan-mm85 2014-04-20 04:34:04)

Re: x axis homing to left?

yeah I zip tied it so things wouldn't move  big_smile

now I just need to sit down and flash everything.

I really hope it works.

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Re: x axis homing to left?

You'll get it...  just take it one step at a time.

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68 (edited by ryan-mm85 2014-04-20 07:27:56)

Re: x axis homing to left?

what the heck does this step mean.
I need to bend pins? im using windows by the way.

Add a jumper to the BOOT pins on the printboard (back of the printer) or bend the 2 pins so they are touching , then press the RESET button

is it the area on the board that has the 6 pins 2 columns 3 rows that are unused?

confused at this part of the instruction.

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Re: x axis homing to left?

Two pins about the center of the board.   You just need to short them together for that step.

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Here is a pic ... in the center of the board near the big chip
http://reprap.org/mediawiki/images/b/b8/Printrboard_Running.JPG

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found it. lol just didn't see it the first time

72 (edited by ryan-mm85 2014-04-20 19:56:10)

Re: x axis homing to left?

ok so now im trying to type what he did into cmd prompt but it says its not recognizing the cmd
im now lost.

the folder I unziped the bootloader to is on my desktop.
im confused at what all the stuff after bootlader_cli is.

29.     Type “hid_bootloader_cli -mmcu=at90usb1286 -w -v Marlin.cpp.hex” (no quotations)

not sure what this line is saying for the computer to do, maybe the USB port im using COM3 needs to be there somewhere?

C:\Users\ryan>type hid_bootloader_cli -mmcu=at90usb1286 -w -v Marlin.cpp.hex
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: hid_bootloader_cli.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: -mmcu.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: at90usb1286.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: -w.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: -v.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Error occurred while processing: Marlin.cpp.hex.

whats this mean?

I also typed it is in without type infront of it hid_bootloader_cli -mmcu=at90usb1286 -w -v Marlin.cpp.hex

I know this is supper beginner of me and im probably missing something simple.

I don't know how to navigate in cmd prompt,
my folder is on my desktop is named BOOTloader.
is that my problem I need to navigate into that folder first?

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holy hell, a little google fu and I got it. big_smile

74 (edited by ryan-mm85 2014-04-20 21:01:45)

Re: x axis homing to left?

now what?
how do I know if the thermistor is reading correctly?

like a dummy I thought the eprom would stay the same for the extruder motor, need to recalibrate that.
and then check with the test box again.

thankyou everyone for this huge help.

now onto buying the bulldog xl big_smile

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Bulldog XL... Now your talking!!!
As far as knowing about your changes you should now be able to crank up your temp with out it stopping because of max temp error.  Assuming you remembered to make the max temp change to 350.  Or did you just change the thermistor type?

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