About to commit Da Vincicide.... (Page 2 of 2)

Have you printed from SDcard? There is no difference in speed other than your settings. The rate at which the data is fed to the buffer is actually faster with an SDcard. I'm not sure what exactly you are basing your comparison on. But it is wrong or the machine you saw this comparison on is setup wrong.

No one said you had to swap out the boards, I had to due to my extruder driver putting out too much current with no way to adjust it. I am also figuring out how to make the board work for my needs. if it is not meeting your needs then as you said go back to another 1.0 if you have the cash. For me it was a one way decision and I have no regrets. My machine is running again and is 100 times quieter than it was and the speed is minor to me.

Well i was not having much luck getting Rep configured. If you have it almost working would you mind sharing your copy with me? It might be the answer to my issue.

I got a test print done using repetier host and slicer.  It was rough

I redid it in simply3d and it turned out great until about 2/3 of the way through it reset the program.  I'm not sure why, but since my printers are in a different room I'm using a laptop, remote desktop, and XYZhub so maybe the serial dropped out for a second and caused it to reset?  I know arduinos do some odd stuff when the serial is reconnected.

The LCD with SD card reader should be here tomorrow.  I think I can modify the post settings in simply3d to use the m codes to write and execute off the SD reader, then it should be as da vinci like as I want. 

The part from simply3d was created using the da vinci 1.0 post, and other than having the Z axis off from having to manually set it, and the steppers wired backwards mirroring the part, I'm almost ready to call it a success.

I did switch back to the da vinci extruder.  Too many variables.  I also went back to 1/16 microstepping.  Repetier did not like the 1/8.  The steps per mm were way off at times, then reverted to 1/10 scale. 

I can't get any more good data on this until the llimit switches are up and the offline printing is there.   The XYZhub is great, but for real time stuff I don't trust it.  I was not able to program the arduino remotely from something timing out.