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Trexter67

Printing issues
April 01, 2014 01:09AM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 8

Problem 1, once my hotend reaches temp, it cools back down to room temperature. Is this normal?
Problem 2, I heat my hotend and once the print starts it again starts to drop back to room temperature. What can I do to stop this?

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cat.farmer

Re: Printing issues
April 01, 2014 01:56PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 466

do you have the proper temps set inside your slicing program?

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Trexter67

Re: Printing issues
April 01, 2014 02:49PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 8

I set them to zero so that the temperature is controlled by the output (pronterface)

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cat.farmer

Re: Printing issues
April 01, 2014 03:26PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 466

and that is the problem. you need to have the temp set in the slicer program. you can still adjust during the print, but as of now you are shutting off the hotend and heatbead.

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Trexter67

Re: Printing issues
April 02, 2014 01:32PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 8

I tried adjusting that last night. Once I sliced it again I tried to print and nothing happened. It just kept giving me the temp. read out over and over. So I tried to re-upload the sprinter program and when trying to adjust that it starting giving me errors and now my printer won't connect so I'm just gonna re-install all the programming to the arduino and hope it works

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waitaki

Re: Printing issues
April 03, 2014 03:26AM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 1,592

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cat.farmer
and that is the problem. you need to have the temp set in the slicer program. you can still adjust during the print, but as of now you are shutting off the hotend and heatbead.

Well you don't need to have the temp set in the slicer program. They can be controlled manually as Trexter has done. The problem is caused by something else. Let's see what happens after he has re-loaded everything.

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cat.farmer

Re: Printing issues
April 03, 2014 02:11PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 466

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waitaki

Well you don't need to have the temp set in the slicer program. They can be controlled manually as Trexter has done. The problem is caused by something else. Let's see what happens after he has re-loaded everything.

True, i did know that, but it was an easy test to see if that was the cause.

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Trexter67

Re: Printing issues
April 06, 2014 10:00PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 8

Well fellas, I downloaded a fresh, un-altered sprinter file and that seemed to fix the issues. Thanks you guys