Da Vinci 1.0 Azteeg x5 WiFi Build (Page 7 of 13)

I use 65 with no issue on small to medium objects. For very large almost full bed objects I use 95.

What you may find that others as well as myself found out is that the stock power supply does not heat the bed and extruder as well after the mainboard is changed.

At least this was the case going to a RAMPS. I had to get a higher wattage supply.

Yep that was another issue. They used a weird uncommon thermistor for the bed. Just get an common EPCOS100K like the firmware is set up for and you will be fine. I used a dremel and cut a channel in the plastic under the bed for the thermistor to fit in so it measured closer to the middle of the bed instead of the edge.

On the smoothie there is no PID for the bed.. Like I said the normal control for a bed is fine. You just need to make sure the proper thermistor is selected.

For placement of the object you have to fudge your bed size. So how ever many mm it was sort of center on the x and y you need to increase your bed size in the slicer and host by that much. Firmware will prevent it from actually going of the bed even though in the host the bed will be larger than it really is.

For the gab you need to have the line in your start gcode like mine does. and you will need to adjust that number through trial and error to get it right.

It sounds like you did not use the paper method correctly. You are supposed to start a print. Once the head is over the bed and beginning the first line. you are to kill power. leaving the bed where it is, move the head around by hand and use the adjusters to achieve the paper gap at all four corners and the middle.

I see where I said gap, but not GAB.. There is a place in your slicer to store start and end gcodes and those are appended by the slicer to each build. When you select your slicer I assume curaengine since you are using repetier you will click on the configure box.

It will open the actual slicer so you can make changes in it like machine dimensions, settings, and so on. The settings you make in the slicer over ride the settings in the host. so things like temp need to be the same in both.

Once you open the cura configuration. you will see a window with the Cura tab selected. In that window will be another window with the Print tab already selected. In that window with be multiple tabs Speed and quality, Structures, Extrusion, and g-codes. under that tab you can edit the Start gcode and End gcode.

Whatever you put in those will be added to the start of and end of every print by the slicer. So you could add a line to the end to move the bed all the way down once the print is done.

Slicer should have similar settings.

Do you have a display like the VIKI2 or mini Viki? If so copy the sliced gcode to an SD card and load and run it from the display. My guess is your power supply is not enough anymore or could be bad or too long USB cable. It should be connected directly with no hub and the shortest cable possible.

I am under extruding 38.0mm when I try to extrude 100mm my current extruder Steps per minute is 140. What should I change the 140 to. It would be 225.8 correct? So I changed the extruder hot end steps mm to the value 225.8 and tried another 100mm run. And of course I now have another hot end issue. It seems as if my hot end keeps getting clogged or something! I clean the hot end out the extruder performs a 100mm run perfectly with a nice line of filament coming out of the hot end. I do my math to adjust the steps and while I am doing the math I had the hot end up to temp while I was doing the calculations. I enter my new value mark 100mm with a sharpie go to extrude another 100mm to see if it cleaned up the under extrusion and I get a very thin slow line of filament coming out the hot end and then nothing comes out. I release the filament and pull it out of the top of the extruder and it looks like the picture below. I don’t know if it’s pushing to hard on the filament or if the filament isn’t melting fast enough, I thought it might be a temp issue so I used a thermometer I have for the grille that is used for meat lol but the hot end is at the same temp as host says it is at. 250c.. I don’t know what else to try but I shouldnt have to take apart the hot end every 100mm of filament I put through the hot end. Like I said it’s a brand new e3d gold edition hot end. V6

38:100 = 140:368    or 368 steps per mm
For some people basic ratio calculation are a struggle but there are various on line calculators that make it easy .

Just need to put the numbers you have in the correct block.

https://www.calculator.net/ratio-calcul … 4&y=18

Wait so I did the calculation wrong?

140 was my value before the 100mm feed test and it only extruded 62mm out of 100

Will do, Carl you mentioned extruder speed.. is this the same value? If not what line should I be looking at?

The setting is under your speed and quality tab in the Cura configuration manager. None of the speed settings except for travel should be set over 35 on the fast and probably 25 on the slow.

Yes those are the set speeds and they are all too fast for PETG. Click on the box that says configuration and you can change them. Save those settings as PETG so you can use them on PETG then later make faster settings for PLA or ABS if you change.