Hi all,
I did build my own delta 3d printer and am currently finetuning and I continuously bump into a problem.
When I try to print something the extruder sometimes stops moving completely. It won’t continue after waiting.
Remarkable is that the printer stops multiple times at the same place. I tried switching out the USB for 3 different SD-cards, this didn’t solve the problem but changed it. With the first sd card it did stop at a different place and with the 3rd it stopped at the same place as the USB again.
I looked into the G-Code but can’t find anything that could cause this problem.
I tried reslicing before and this can fix the problem (not always).
When I try to print directly from my slicer to the printer I didn’t encounter this problem so far.
Does anybody know what can cause the printer to stop mid print? I think it is caused by one of the following but feel free to give other suggestions.
The hotend cools down. The display however is not updating this change in temperature when the printer stopped I quickly turned off the printer and switched it back on again. The hotend was only 169 degrees when the printer was on again. When I do the same thing when the printer is still printing I do read out a temperature of around 195 degrees. (I print on 205)
Communication between the LCD display and the controller. As said above the display does not update the hotend temperature. Can this be possible because of losing connection between the display and the controller? If this happens it can explain why the printer stops printing because it can not reach it’s SD card anymore.
Both suggestions don’t explain why the printer stops on the same spot multiple times in a row, so feel free to suggest other problems.
Kind regards,
Rik
PS. I use Smoothieware and Simplify3d
I did build my own delta 3d printer and am currently finetuning and I continuously bump into a problem.
When I try to print something the extruder sometimes stops moving completely. It won’t continue after waiting.
Remarkable is that the printer stops multiple times at the same place. I tried switching out the USB for 3 different SD-cards, this didn’t solve the problem but changed it. With the first sd card it did stop at a different place and with the 3rd it stopped at the same place as the USB again.
I looked into the G-Code but can’t find anything that could cause this problem.
I tried reslicing before and this can fix the problem (not always).
When I try to print directly from my slicer to the printer I didn’t encounter this problem so far.
Does anybody know what can cause the printer to stop mid print? I think it is caused by one of the following but feel free to give other suggestions.
The hotend cools down. The display however is not updating this change in temperature when the printer stopped I quickly turned off the printer and switched it back on again. The hotend was only 169 degrees when the printer was on again. When I do the same thing when the printer is still printing I do read out a temperature of around 195 degrees. (I print on 205)
Communication between the LCD display and the controller. As said above the display does not update the hotend temperature. Can this be possible because of losing connection between the display and the controller? If this happens it can explain why the printer stops printing because it can not reach it’s SD card anymore.
Both suggestions don’t explain why the printer stops on the same spot multiple times in a row, so feel free to suggest other problems.
Kind regards,
Rik
PS. I use Smoothieware and Simplify3d