Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 01, 2015 11:36PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 02, 2015 10:11AM |
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This is the Y tensioner I use
[www.thingiverse.com]
Going to take apart Y and X carriages soon when I feel like it, to lube up the bearings
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 02, 2015 11:30AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 02, 2015 12:48PM |
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srcga
This is the Y tensioner I use
[www.thingiverse.com]
Going to take apart Y and X carriages soon when I feel like it, to lube up the bearings
MMMMMM I like that tensioner! You said you are using it. It it hard to tighten the belt. Looks like the screw is hard to get at? Id be interested in trying that.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 02, 2015 02:53PM |
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srcga
This is the Y tensioner I use
[www.thingiverse.com]
Going to take apart Y and X carriages soon when I feel like it, to lube up the bearings
MMMMMM I like that tensioner! You said you are using it. It it hard to tighten the belt. Looks like the screw is hard to get at? Id be interested in trying that.
Do you have any picture of yours mounted? Is the the bolt facing towards the front on the mount that holds it to the aluminum plate with the head facing down? So the nut is on top of the aluminum plate? If so does that give you enough room to adjust your heat plate up and down?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 02, 2015 04:38PM |
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srcga
This is the Y tensioner I use
[www.thingiverse.com]
Going to take apart Y and X carriages soon when I feel like it, to lube up the bearings
MMMMMM I like that tensioner! You said you are using it. It it hard to tighten the belt. Looks like the screw is hard to get at? Id be interested in trying that.
Do you have any picture of yours mounted? Is the the bolt facing towards the front on the mount that holds it to the aluminum plate with the head facing down? So the nut is on top of the aluminum plate? If so does that give you enough room to adjust your heat plate up and down?
Sorry for the crappy pic but just built an enclosure for the printer.. not at a position to lift everything out right now. Soon enough I'll do lead screws and when I do that I'll take apart all the carriages and get better pics.
The adjuster screw faces the front of the printer. If I extend the bed all the way to the front, it's easy to adjust with a long allen
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 02, 2015 07:12PM |
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I see yours came out much nicer! Are you using pla or abs? I still may have some setting off a little(using s3d). But I also was printing it at 200%speed. Maybe I should have slowed it down. It's still usable just not as pretty as yours.lol. I printed it at .2 with 50% infill pla.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 02, 2015 08:01PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 03, 2015 12:01PM |
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Also, if anyone is interested in some quality filament, I can give two big thumbs up to IC3D ABS. Just used up my last bit of Hatchbox printing half of the new y-tensioner, and am printing the other half with the IC3D, I can literally see the (albeit small, Hatchbox is still good stuff) difference as its going along.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 03, 2015 04:14PM |
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Also, if anyone is interested in some quality filament, I can give two big thumbs up to IC3D ABS. Just used up my last bit of Hatchbox printing half of the new y-tensioner, and am printing the other half with the IC3D, I can literally see the (albeit small, Hatchbox is still good stuff) difference as its going along.
Worth the price difference?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 12:13AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 12:27AM |
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Could be that the Hatchbox just has a higher heat capacity, and if you don't heat it enough it does not flow out enough. But if you do heat it enough it will stay melted longer and give a stronger bond on the lower layer.
Or not.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 11:30AM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 12:23PM |
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I should be getting my printer tomorrow Monday!
I tried to read as much as I was able but after page 23 of 58 started getting lost... what are the basic tips and pointers for the assembly?
thanks!
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 12:42PM |
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I should be getting my printer tomorrow Monday!
I tried to read as much as I was able but after page 23 of 58 started getting lost... what are the basic tips and pointers for the assembly?
thanks!
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 01:27PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 09:21PM |
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I should be getting my printer tomorrow Monday!
I tried to read as much as I was able but after page 23 of 58 started getting lost... what are the basic tips and pointers for the assembly?
thanks!
1. Make sure to plug in you stepper drives with the potentiometer away from the power connection. Plugging them in backwards will destroy them
2. Make sure to plug in your endstops with the red wire inwards. Plugging these in backwards will destroy your arduino
3. If you test the voltages on your steppers, connect the positive lead(red) from the multimeter to the pot, and the ground lead(black) to one of the ground connections on the terminal block going to the power supply. Make sure not to let the positive probes slip as it will most likely cause a short that will destroy your steppers.
4. Have a hex wrench tool ready.
5. You may need extra or longer screws than what is provided since your kit may not come with enough screws, or enough screws of proper length.
6. When installing the bed, one of the printed bearing holders may have been printed with a slight slant at the top, so be sure to install them so that the slanted piece does not cause your bed plate to slant.
7. Use therippa's marlin build instead of what FT provided on their site
8. Inspect to back of your ramps board for bridges in the soldering joints. Remove any bridges that you see.
These are just a few tips. Ask for help anytime, and have fun
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 09:53PM |
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I should be getting my printer tomorrow Monday!
I tried to read as much as I was able but after page 23 of 58 started getting lost... what are the basic tips and pointers for the assembly?
thanks!
1. Make sure to plug in you stepper drives with the potentiometer away from the power connection. Plugging them in backwards will destroy them
2. Make sure to plug in your endstops with the red wire inwards. Plugging these in backwards will destroy your arduino
3. If you test the voltages on your steppers, connect the positive lead(red) from the multimeter to the pot, and the ground lead(black) to one of the ground connections on the terminal block going to the power supply. Make sure not to let the positive probes slip as it will most likely cause a short that will destroy your steppers.
4. Have a hex wrench tool ready.
5. You may need extra or longer screws than what is provided since your kit may not come with enough screws, or enough screws of proper length.
6. When installing the bed, one of the printed bearing holders may have been printed with a slight slant at the top, so be sure to install them so that the slanted piece does not cause your bed plate to slant.
7. Use therippa's marlin build instead of what FT provided on their site
8. Inspect to back of your ramps board for bridges in the soldering joints. Remove any bridges that you see.
These are just a few tips. Ask for help anytime, and have fun
What are the differences between the FT firmware and the therippa's marlin one?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 10:12PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 04, 2015 10:57PM |
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For you guys building now, this little tidbit is in here somewhere and it helped me with the X stop on the right. I assume rippa has made the config.h changes but check the FT files, if you are using them, as I am. Everything works so I have dragged my feet putting his super files in my machine, Sorry rippa.
Change the following in configuration.h
#define INVERT_X_DIR true to #define INVERT_X_DIR false
#define X_HOME_DIR -1 to #define X_HOME_DIR 1
With the printer off PHYSICALLY move the x-axis stopper to the left one set of pins (this makes it so it's the x max instead of x-min)
Now if you are using rep host, you need to go to printer settings > printer shape and change home X: from min to Max.
One big glaring mistake in the build manual is putting the X stop plug in the wrong place on the board. It should be right next to the Y stop plug, not two over as the manual says. Also, for the X motor plug wires, keep them as you see. It's not a mistake to have them reversed from the others. I DID end up reversing the extruder motor plug because it was pushing the filament out the top!
The new spring design extruder has a brass feed gear that, for me, was rubbing inside the motor housing and causing it to drag and skip steps. You can read about that a few pages back too. I still haven't figured out on here how to reference specific posts.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 05, 2015 03:25AM |
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I should be getting my printer tomorrow Monday!
I tried to read as much as I was able but after page 23 of 58 started getting lost... what are the basic tips and pointers for the assembly?
thanks!
1. Make sure to plug in you stepper drives with the potentiometer away from the power connection. Plugging them in backwards will destroy them
2. Make sure to plug in your endstops with the red wire inwards. Plugging these in backwards will destroy your arduino
3. If you test the voltages on your steppers, connect the positive lead(red) from the multimeter to the pot, and the ground lead(black) to one of the ground connections on the terminal block going to the power supply. Make sure not to let the positive probes slip as it will most likely cause a short that will destroy your steppers.
4. Have a hex wrench tool ready.
5. You may need extra or longer screws than what is provided since your kit may not come with enough screws, or enough screws of proper length.
6. When installing the bed, one of the printed bearing holders may have been printed with a slight slant at the top, so be sure to install them so that the slanted piece does not cause your bed plate to slant.
7. Use therippa's marlin build instead of what FT provided on their site
8. Inspect to back of your ramps board for bridges in the soldering joints. Remove any bridges that you see.
These are just a few tips. Ask for help anytime, and have fun
What are the differences between the FT firmware and the therippa's marlin one?
I maintain a fork of the current release of the latest Marlin software with all of the Folgertech settings already merged in, so you don't have to go through all of the configuration files and do it yourself. The firmware Folgertech provides is pretty outdated, and since then, a lot of bugs have been fixed and new features have been added.
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 05, 2015 11:50AM |
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I should be getting my printer tomorrow Monday!
I tried to read as much as I was able but after page 23 of 58 started getting lost... what are the basic tips and pointers for the assembly?
thanks!
1. Make sure to plug in you stepper drives with the potentiometer away from the power connection. Plugging them in backwards will destroy them
2. Make sure to plug in your endstops with the red wire inwards. Plugging these in backwards will destroy your arduino
3. If you test the voltages on your steppers, connect the positive lead(red) from the multimeter to the pot, and the ground lead(black) to one of the ground connections on the terminal block going to the power supply. Make sure not to let the positive probes slip as it will most likely cause a short that will destroy your steppers.
4. Have a hex wrench tool ready.
5. You may need extra or longer screws than what is provided since your kit may not come with enough screws, or enough screws of proper length.
6. When installing the bed, one of the printed bearing holders may have been printed with a slight slant at the top, so be sure to install them so that the slanted piece does not cause your bed plate to slant.
7. Use therippa's marlin build instead of what FT provided on their site
8. Inspect to back of your ramps board for bridges in the soldering joints. Remove any bridges that you see.
These are just a few tips. Ask for help anytime, and have fun
What are the differences between the FT firmware and the therippa's marlin one?
I maintain a fork of the current release of the latest Marlin software with all of the Folgertech settings already merged in, so you don't have to go through all of the configuration files and do it yourself. The firmware Folgertech provides is pretty outdated, and since then, a lot of bugs have been fixed and new features have been added.
Hey have you seen the new release of marlin? Have you worked with it yet?
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 05, 2015 01:32PM |
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Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 05, 2015 02:53PM |
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After I finished my printer within 3 days a few weeks ago, I am really satisfied with this device, the results are o.k. The microprocessor-system runs without even one break-down so far. the printer is recommandable to everyone who wants a good printer for an acceptable price.
A few days ago I bought a "riprapdiscount - full graphic display" here in Austria/Europe via an e-store. I followed all hints and explanations in the web but it does not work. Supply and backlights are on, the display shows an empty matrix with one horizontal line in the middle.
according to the instructions I added the instruction line shown in the attached screenshot, the additional files were stored into the library-directory. the compilation and the upload were successfull, but there is nothing to read on the display after connecting.
can to check the screenshot - please, I am shure you will find out whats wrong - maybe there is something missing in the programm
Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) October 05, 2015 07:21PM |
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