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- Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:08 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Extruder motor barely moving
- Replies: 10
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Re: Extruder motor barely moving
If you swapped motors and the problem remains then I would swap the bad motor to a different axis on the Rambo, your problem could be a bad Rambo driver. You could also take a good working axis and plug it into the suspected bad port and see if the known good axis shows the same bad symptoms ...
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:21 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Extruder motor barely moving
- Replies: 10
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Re: Extruder motor barely moving
The flow on the "home" screen of the printer reads 100%BenTheRighteous wrote:Also, double-check you haven't accidentally changed the flow rate on the lcd, or the slider in mattercontrol itself.
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Extruder motor barely moving
- Replies: 10
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Re: Extruder motor barely moving
only the movement resembles ticking, no noise. thanksprecisionpete wrote:And if it's ticking that is the sound of a jammed extruder quite possibly

- Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:19 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Extruder motor barely moving
- Replies: 10
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Re: Extruder motor barely moving
on your lcd, sroll down and find what your steps per mm is set at for the extruder...... Note: The extruder retracts on travel fine Here are the stats from the LCD that I though might be relevant: Steps per mm: 92.4 Start FR: 45 Max FR: 100 Accel: 6500 Advance Lin: 0 DT/PID: 31.36 PID I: 2.18 PID D ...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:17 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting
- Topic: Extruder motor barely moving
- Replies: 10
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Extruder motor barely moving
When I run print jobs, the extruder motor makes minuscule rotations resembling a ticking clock rather than a fluid rotation like it used to. This problem arose suddenly without me changing any settings as far as I know. The motor rotates so little that almost no plastic is pushed through the hot end ...
- Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:06 pm
- Forum: New Member introduction
- Topic: Printing in Branford, CT, USA
- Replies: 4
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Re: Printing in Branford, CT, USA
I ordered a new fuse and everything is back to normal, thanks everyone
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:21 pm
- Forum: New Member introduction
- Topic: Printing in Branford, CT, USA
- Replies: 4
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Re: Printing in Branford, CT, USA
Thanks, I knowEric wrote:The entire purpose of a fuse is to protect the rest of the circuit from damage. That's probably all that is wrong.

- Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:24 pm
- Forum: New Member introduction
- Topic: Printing in Branford, CT, USA
- Replies: 4
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Printing in Branford, CT, USA
Hello everyone, I'm a student attending The University of Connecticut. I've worked with 3D printers, circuits, and robotics throughout my high school career. I am also going to be volunteering/teaching classes at my local library's new MakerLab. I've had my Orion Delta for a little over 4 months now ...