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    • zaptaundefined
      zapta @JayJay
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      @JayJay said in Poor print quality with RRF3 - especially 3.2.2.:

      Fan boy alert....

      Why do you try to silence him?

      https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

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      • o_lampeundefined
        o_lampe
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        @deckingman
        I read the whole thread before I dared to ask: Don't you think it's funny, that it is always the first print that fails?
        How do you store the filament? Maybe it needs some more time between storage and first print? A good wine needs to breeze, too πŸ˜‰

        Just trying to think out off the box

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        • deckingmanundefined
          deckingman @o_lampe
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          @o_lampe said in Poor print quality with RRF3 - especially 3.2.2.:

          @deckingman
          I read the whole thread before I dared to ask: Don't you think it's funny, that it is always the first print that fails?

          Well, the sample size is small, so it may just be coincidental, but you aren't the first to point that out. Another coincidence is that I started another thread about my Z homing switch which sometimes erroneously gets reported as being triggered when it isn't. Cycling the power fixes it. To date, that has only ever happened first thing in the morning and never later in the day.

          How do you store the filament? Maybe it needs some more time between storage and first print? A good wine needs to breeze, too πŸ˜‰

          I store the filament in sealable bags, with silica gel desiccant inside each bag (the type that changes colour when it has absorbed moisture). The bagged reels of filament then go back inside their original boxes along with a slip of paper with the date when the filament was bought. The boxes are stored on a pull out rack which sits alongside the printer, and which is inside a dust proof "booth". Also inside this booth are two disposable type de-humidifiers of the type which use Calcium Chloride.

          Any filament that is more than year old gets discarded (or I might use it in desperation but would be highly suspicious of any parts made with it).

          Details of the storage rack are here https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/pull-out-filament-storage-rack/

          Details of the "booth" that houses the printer and rack are here https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/new-home-for-my-printer/

          Ian
          https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
          https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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          • jens55undefined
            jens55
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            @deckingman said in Poor print quality with RRF3 - especially 3.2.2.:

            Any filament that is more than year old gets discarded (or I might use it in desperation but would be highly suspicious of any parts made with it).

            Does that include original vacuum sealed packages that were never opened ?

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            • deckingmanundefined
              deckingman @jens55
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              @jens55 said in Poor print quality with RRF3 - especially 3.2.2.:

              @deckingman said in Poor print quality with RRF3 - especially 3.2.2.:

              Any filament that is more than year old gets discarded (or I might use it in desperation but would be highly suspicious of any parts made with it).

              Does that include original vacuum sealed packages that were never opened ?

              No. I date them when I open them (break the seal). IMO, anything else is pointless unless they have a manufacturing date on them, which I've rarely seen. No system is perfect as one could get a reel that's been in storage for months or (even years conceivably) before one made the purchase.

              Even then, I've had bad reels but it tends to be kind of obvious. Since a very bad experience with the eSun PET-G, I've learned to be suspicious of the first print with a new reel - foil and vacuum packed or otherwise.

              I have a feeling that reel of eSun PETG fell overboard somewhere in the South China sea, was fished out after a months immersion, and only then put into a vacuum packed foil bag. I don't see how else it could have got so wet. I passed it on to a friend who spent hours and hours drying it but he never had much luck with it. Never bought any eSun filament since (although others swear by it).

              Ian
              https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
              https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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              • jens55undefined
                jens55
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                Good ... you had me worried there for a bit because I have a fairly substantial stock pile. I buy a year's estimated supply at boxing day prices and have filament that is more than 2 years old but in the original sealed vacuum package.
                I use mostly black and white but also have some coloured filament that is sealed but is rarely used.

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                • deckingmanundefined
                  deckingman @jens55
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                  @jens55 Different filaments have different properties. I'm told that Nylon is a bugger for absorbing water (never used it myself) but PLA is reasonably forgiving. On the other had, it seems to go brittle if left on the machine too long but often, pulling out a couple of metres or so will sort it out. There is a school of thought that say UV light plays a part in that.

                  What you doing is probably fine. If you didn't buy a batch at a time and store it at home, it'd likely sit in Amazon's warehouse until you or someone else bought it. Just be on the lookout for print defects when you first fit a new reel, or again, if you know the filament has been opened and sitting around for a while.

                  Personally I prefer to buy it more sort of "as and when" I need it. There is less chance of getting a number of bad reels because they all come from the same (bad) batch. I stick with the same supplier - they've served me well over the years and I know they'd likely do a refund or send another reel if I came across a bad one.

                  Ian
                  https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
                  https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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                  • zaptaundefined
                    zapta @deckingman
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                    @deckingman, you can have an Ender 3 on the side, as a reference for filament quality. πŸ˜‰

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                    • deckingmanundefined
                      deckingman @zapta
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                      @zapta said in Poor print quality with RRF3 - especially 3.2.2.:

                      @deckingman, you can have an Ender 3 on the side, as a reference for filament quality. πŸ˜‰

                      Not sure why people are so fixated about this print to print variability being due to filament. Not impossible but the idea that nnn metres could produce a bad print and the next nnn metres of the same reel could produce an acceptable print, is among the least plausible I'd have thought.

                      Ian
                      https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
                      https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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                      • o_lampeundefined
                        o_lampe
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                        @deckingman
                        Your filament storage method is out off question for me, but I still stick to somethings wrong with cold start.
                        Might be, the firmware(s) of the boards involved click together easier after a reboot. I have created the habit, to issue an emergency stop from DWC, after I've played around with mesh bed leveling or Z-probe adjustment.
                        Just to give MCU and memory a clean wipeout.

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                        • deckingmanundefined
                          deckingman @o_lampe
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                          @o_lampe Looking through these forums, there are numerous instances where cycling power often seems to fix things. It makes one wonder......Perhaps an electrical component somewhere which performs differently when it's warm/cold?

                          One could speculate forever. All I can do is keep plugging away and doing what dc42 asks. Maybe something will show up with the diagnostics that 3.3 beta will provide and which I plan to do later.

                          And when someone says "well what do you expect? you are using beta firmware!", as has happened before, I'll likely commit murder....

                          Ian
                          https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
                          https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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                          • droftartsundefined
                            droftarts administrators @deckingman
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                            @deckingman well what do you expect? you are using ... oh, never mind.

                            Ian (feeling a little scared)

                            Bed-slinger - Mini5+ WiFi/1LC | RRP Fisher v1 - D2 WiFi | Polargraph - D2 WiFi | TronXY X5S - 6HC/Roto | CNC router - 6HC | Tractus3D T1250 - D2 Eth

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                            • deckingmanundefined
                              deckingman @droftarts
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                              @droftarts I know who you are (but I don't know where you live so you are safe .......for now).

                              Ian
                              https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
                              https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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                              • droftartsundefined
                                droftarts administrators @deckingman
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                                @deckingman yes, you do, you sent me a roll of 3mm clear filament! Oh no! He’s got my address! Going into hiding...

                                Ian

                                Bed-slinger - Mini5+ WiFi/1LC | RRP Fisher v1 - D2 WiFi | Polargraph - D2 WiFi | TronXY X5S - 6HC/Roto | CNC router - 6HC | Tractus3D T1250 - D2 Eth

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                                • o_lampeundefined
                                  o_lampe @deckingman
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                                  @deckingman said in Poor print quality with RRF3 - especially 3.2.2.:

                                  you are using beta firmware

                                  Let's hope it's just a firmware issue and not a hardware thing. There are so many threads about CAN-stuff going wild...it might be interference or crosstalking. AFAIK, it's their first attempt to implement CAN. And according to German Automobile Clubs, electric failure is the most frequent reason for parking your car unvolontary. (Cars are full of CAN-devices)

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                                  • deckingmanundefined
                                    deckingman
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                                    @dc42 David,

                                    I've installed 3.3.beta1 on all boards. I cleared the console, ran M122 on all boards after the instal, then downloaded the console output as a text file. Then I homed the printer, and repeated the "clear console - run M122s -download text" sequence again. Then started a print and repeated that M122 sequence again mid print. And finally, one more time at the end. I've created a folder on Google drive and put each of those 4 console.txt files in a separate folder. So it should be self explanatory - here is a link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m1BnwUsU035TQT_76kcl3Yiz4BPApXg8?usp=sharing

                                    I don't see any of the non zero oos on the expansion boards but I do see some send timeouts on the main board for the mid print and post print reports (102 mid-print and 373 post print).

                                    The print itself if still cooling down on the build plate so I haven't looked closely at it but it doesn't look good. Not as bad as some that I've seen, but not as good as "acceptable" ones either.

                                    HTH

                                    Ian
                                    https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
                                    https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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                                    • deckingmanundefined
                                      deckingman @droftarts
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                                      @droftarts Fortunately for you, I didn't keep a record or your address - so you can come out from under the duvet now. πŸ™‚

                                      Ian
                                      https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
                                      https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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                                      • dc42undefined
                                        dc42 administrators
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                                        @deckingman, thanks for those M122 logs. If the print quality is between the bad ones and the acceptable ones, that is confusing! Can you confirm that you have been running with the same pressure advance setting (perhaps none) throughout all the recent prints?

                                        As you said, you are getting a nonzero number of send timeouts. In theory this should mean that some messages (probably movement messages) have been lost; but in that case the expansion boards should have reported some 'oos' (out-of-sequence) errors. So I am still trying to work out the reason for this apparent conflict. The other user I was working with had a similar effect: a small number of 'oos' errors (and corresponding defects in the print) but several hundred times as many send timeouts.

                                        My suspicion is that the CAN peripheral is delaying the reporting of successful transmissions by longer than the timeout period. However, I would like to eliminate the send timeouts as a possible reason for the issue you are seeing. So please upgrade once more, this time to the firmware binaries at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q5uqqkjbmhgvlhq/AACYqG0ynLME9ogoLd1zLB2Xa?dl=0. These are later versions of 3.3beta1 and fully compatible with them. So no need to do anything different this time. I expect these binaries to get rid of the send timeouts, and also to get rid of the spurious 'bm' errors reporting on the 3HC after homing.

                                        Duet WiFi hardware designer and firmware engineer
                                        Please do not ask me for Duet support via PM or email, use the forum
                                        http://www.escher3d.com, https://miscsolutions.wordpress.com

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                                        • deckingmanundefined
                                          deckingman @dc42
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                                          @dc42 Ref the print quality - let's go with bad rather than acceptable. But the way things have been, it's possible that the next print might be worse (or better).

                                          I can confirm that everything is exactly the same - including PA (and it's still the same reel of filament. I tell a lie - the part cooling fans are no longer connected since one of the most acceptable prints was done without any part cooling.

                                          I've downloaded the binaries - it might be a day or two before I get chance to instal them and run another print.

                                          As I'm running a beta, is there anything else you'd like me to check?

                                          Ian
                                          https://somei3deas.wordpress.com/
                                          https://www.youtube.com/@deckingman

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                                          • droftartsundefined
                                            droftarts administrators @deckingman
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                                            @deckingman did you swap extruders?

                                            Ian

                                            Bed-slinger - Mini5+ WiFi/1LC | RRP Fisher v1 - D2 WiFi | Polargraph - D2 WiFi | TronXY X5S - 6HC/Roto | CNC router - 6HC | Tractus3D T1250 - D2 Eth

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