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Topic: Bed heating troubles in RH on Mac

Anyone else have troubles getting the bed to heat up in RH on Mac? Almost every morning I turn everything on and tell the bed to heat up before I heat the extruders, but the bed won't warm. Sometimes I can get it to warm by turning the extruders on, and that kind of kicks it in gear. Another note, every time I start RH the Power button under Print Panel is turned off. I always turn it on, but now I'm wondering if it does anything at all. Other times I can get it to warm by disconnecting from RH, shutting the printer off and unplugging the usb, plugging it back in, turning the printer on, the connecting in RH again.

I know only a few people are using Macs, but just wondering if anyone else was having troubles and what they might be doing to get it warming.

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Re: Bed heating troubles in RH on Mac

I forgot to mention, the status indicator says idle even when I turn the bed on.

Just FYI, I got it to heat up this morning by turning off extruder 1, turning on extruder 2, and waiting until it was heated all the way, then the bed kick on...

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Re: Bed heating troubles in RH on Mac

RH has not upgraded its Mac version in well over a year.  I think that has a lot to do with the problems you, I and plenty of other Mac users have.  I have an IMac I have gone to using Parallels to run Win 7 so I can use the constantly upgraded Windows versions.  I have all but given up in RH for Mac at the present. 
Look into Parallels or even Boot Camp to allow a Win version to run on the newer Macs.

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