Topic: Problem with extruder stalling on new Press
This is my first time with a 3D printer, so I may be missing something obvious. I'll submit to technical support, but I suspect someone might be able to help me prior to me getting a response from tech support.
I got the Press yesterday, set it up, calibrated it and hung the cable with a rubber band so it wouldn't get caught on the Y-axis.
I got my Press with a present (a broken piece of filament in the extruder assembly), but I got that out pretty easily. I printed the first test piece (a 20cm cube) with no problems whatsoever. Boy, was I excited when I went to bed last night.
However, this afternoon, I went back for my second print. This time was completely different. The extruder won't pull filament through it. It appears to be "stalling". It goes "thump, thump, thump" and you can see it going forward and backwards a tiny amount. It does this even when there is no filament loaded. I though it might just be jammed, so I removed the filament entirely and used the Soliprint "Filament Control" to manually "extrude" or "retract". When you press "retract", the servo will reverse as expected about 1/2 the time and will go forward about 1/4 of the time and will go forward & backward about 1/4 of the time. In other words, the servo CAN go both directions, but when I use the "Retract" slider in Soliprint, it does "random" things.
When you use the manual "Extrude" slider in Soliprint, it always goes, "thump, thump, thump" and doesn't advance at all.
I suspect there is some user setting that controls the servo, but I have no idea where to find it.
On a completely unrelated note, my "hotbed" is ALWAYS hot. As soon as I plug in the Press, the bed heats up. It hovers at between 100-108%C, regardless of whether it's connected to Soliprint or not. In the Soliprint software, the power output always shows up as "0", but it never cools off, even when the extruder cools down. I'm actually a little worried about leaving something in my house that is always above boiling point, in case something falls on it and catches fire. So, question 2 is: Should the hotbed always be on, or is there a problem with my machine?
M105 returns:
R: ok T:250.0 /250.0 B:103.7 /90.0 T0:250.0 /250.0 @:59 B@:0
As you can see, the temperature 103.7C is well above the target level 90C.
By the way, the one print I got out of it was nice.... Even on 0.3 resolution, the cube actually came out looking like a cube. I attached a lousy picture, but the cube looks nice. The pictures shows the bottom facing you and it's a little squished at the bottom, but I suspect that could be because the hotbed was too hot so it got a little melted down.
