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by barbosa.rmv
Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:26 am
Forum: FAIL HAPPENS ! ! !
Topic: Delta arm rods broke off (disconnected) Now with Pictures
Replies: 10
Views: 8017

Re: Delta arm rods broke off (disconnected) Now with Picture

Hi Folks, I finally found out what happened to my printer. Or at least I did somethign which fixed it. Such a catastrophic failure had to be a combination of things. I kept trying to understand what happened and 3 more prints snapped the rods from their carriages. All about 80% print, all more or le...
by barbosa.rmv
Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:40 pm
Forum: FAIL HAPPENS ! ! !
Topic: Delta arm rods broke off (disconnected) Now with Pictures
Replies: 10
Views: 8017

Re: Delta arm rods broken off (disconnected)

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by barbosa.rmv
Mon Nov 02, 2015 2:19 pm
Forum: FAIL HAPPENS ! ! !
Topic: Delta arm rods broke off (disconnected) Now with Pictures
Replies: 10
Views: 8017

Re: Delta arm rods broken off (disconnected)

Correct, they just un snapped...

Can't imagine the force needed for this in multiple axis
by barbosa.rmv
Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:42 pm
Forum: FAIL HAPPENS ! ! !
Topic: Delta arm rods broke off (disconnected) Now with Pictures
Replies: 10
Views: 8017

Delta arm rods broke off (disconnected) Now with Pictures

Hi Folks, Something odd happened today. I was doing a very large print (37+ hours in draft) and this morning, when I checked how it was going, I found the extruder block hanging from 2 rods. The other 4 rods were broken off, i.e. disconnected, from the cheapskates. I suspect the mesh loom got entagl...
by barbosa.rmv
Fri Dec 12, 2014 10:26 am
Forum: Rostock MAX v2
Topic: stepper motors are super hot!
Replies: 50
Views: 35606

Re: stepper motors are super hot!

Hi

I have the same problem.

Rostok Max V2 Keysan steppers

My extruder motor runs hot enough to melt the filament and until there is no traction.

I did make the changes for the MOTOR_CURRENT as recommended

Should we lower it a bit more?

Thanks

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