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Topic: help with heating!

I am a noob, and i just received my solidoodle

i installed everything and getting ready to test print, now i went to set my heater to 190.. but it keeps saying t:3.0/3.0 B:16/3.0@0

and wont heat up..

can anyone help me with this?

thanks, i attached a screen shot

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2 Reply by elmoret

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Re: help with heating!

MINTEMP triggered means its reading less than 5C on the extruder. Can you heat the extruder a bit with a hairdryer, get it to 20C, and try again?

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3 Reply by marcmazzon

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Re: help with heating!

elmoret wrote:

MINTEMP triggered means its reading less than 5C on the extruder. Can you heat the extruder a bit with a hairdryer, get it to 20C, and try again?


Thanks,
i am going to try that when i am home, i noticed a wire is pulled out at the extruder, must have happened during shipping? it is a small white rubber tube, looks like a speaker wire, but there doesnt seem to be anything inside? There are two small white wires that come out of a small light blue plastic piece, one looks to be either broken or just never put in, the cut seems pretty clean.

my house is set to 17 degrees Celcius i think, and my heating bed flucuates between 16-17.5 degrees? the heating bed will not heat up either.

I tried to navigate through the x,y,and z axis. the only thing it will do is go "home"

any ideas anyone?


thanks

4 Reply by Rondavouz (edited by Rondavouz 2012-12-19 14:51:34)

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Re: help with heating!

Please take a picture of the broken/loose wire/part. The wires should all be connected and if the machine doesn't get the right values, it wont heat up. The white wires going into the blue is for the thermistor, and should be connected.
You can see how it should look in the post:
http://www.soliforum.com/topic/235/extr … bly-guide/

marcmazzon wrote:
elmoret wrote:

MINTEMP triggered means its reading less than 5C on the extruder. Can you heat the extruder a bit with a hairdryer, get it to 20C, and try again?


Thanks,
i am going to try that when i am home, i noticed a wire is pulled out at the extruder, must have happened during shipping? it is a small white rubber tube, looks like a speaker wire, but there doesnt seem to be anything inside? There are two small white wires that come out of a small light blue plastic piece, one looks to be either broken or just never put in, the cut seems pretty clean.

my house is set to 17 degrees Celcius i think, and my heating bed flucuates between 16-17.5 degrees? the heating bed will not heat up either.

I tried to navigate through the x,y,and z axis. the only thing it will do is go "home"

any ideas anyone?


thanks

5 Reply by marcmazzon (edited by marcmazzon 2012-12-19 16:10:28)

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Re: help with heating!

Thanks,

I looked at the link you sent, and circled it in green, one of these wires is plugged in, the other isnt, i suspect it was damaged during shipping


is it easy to reconnect? can it be something i can do at home?

thank you for your help

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6 Reply by wire10ga

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Re: help with heating!

What you have in green circled leads to the extruder temp probe. It's very small and taped to the head of the extruder nut. If the wire is hanging loose at the connector you should be able to push it back in the blue connector with a small screwdriver. If it's loose at the extruder you have a broke temp prob.

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7 Reply by vitroid

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Re: help with heating!

Same with me. The heater is cool. Pronterface shows "T:3.0 /3.0 B:22.5 /3.0 @:0" all the time.
Heater lines (red) are connected to the bottom of the Arduino but the power transistors at the connectors also remains cool, so I doubt no current is running through the heater line.

Is there any command to set the current on the heater line directly?