How to Deactivate the Heater/s?

gbartsch

@weed2all Thank you; but this didn't work: M104 S-273.1

gbartsch

@Phaedrux Thank you; but this M104 doesn't turn off or deactivate the heater block heater.

gbartsch

@OwenD Oh. So for the heater block hear I would do M104 Hn S-276 where n is the heater?

deckingman

@gbartsch M104 is deprecated so you would be better off using G10 or M568. For tools with multiple heaters, use the colon separator. Also be aware that turning a heater off isn't like a switch which removes power. Whether you set the temperature to zero or "off" you'll still have voltage on the positive side of the heater (PWM switches the negative side).

OwenD

@gbartsch
Yes Hn woul be H0, H1 etc depending on how many heaters you have.

I use these macros which should work regardless of the number of tools and heaters you have.
That said I don't have multiple tools and I don't have a chamber heater. I just try to "future proof" my code.

I also have an "all-heaters-off.g" macro which just calls each of these in turn
I put that in my stop.g
My slicer end code just calls M0

For tool heaters

; Shut down all tool heaters and set temps to zero.
M291 P"Shutting down tool heaters" R"Heaters" S0 T1
G4 S1.1 ; wait for popup
var ToolsDone = 0 ; create a variable to cope with tools that are not sequentially numbered (unlikely but possible)
while (iterations < limits.tools) && (var.ToolsDone < #tools) 
	;echo "iteration " ^ iterations
	if (tools[iterations]!=null)
		if (#tools[iterations].heaters > 0) ; check if the tool has a heater to turn off
			M568 P{iterations} S0 R0 ; Set active and standby to zero
			M568 P{iterations} A0 ; turn off heater(s) associated with this tool
			M291 P{"Tool " ^ (iterations) ^ " is set to off" } S0 T1.5 ; report heater state of tool
			G4 S1.6 ; wait for popup
		set var.ToolsDone = var.ToolsDone + 1 ; Increment the number of tools shut off.
	else
		echo "Null value Tool number - skipping #" ^ iterations
		G4 S1
		continue ; we've encountered a non sequential move to next tool number without incrementing the ToolsDone variable
echo "All tool heaters are off"

For chamber heaters

M291 P"Shutting down chamber heaters" R"Heaters" S0 T1
G4 S1.1 ; wait for popup
while iterations < #heat.chamberHeaters
	;echo "checking chamber heater " ^ iterations-1
	if heat.chamberHeaters[iterations]!=-1
		M141 P{iterations} S0 R0
		M141 P{iterations} S-276
		M291 P{"Chamber # " ^ iterations ^ " off"} R"Heaters" S0 T1
echo "All chamber heaters turned off"

For bed heaters

M291 P"Shutting down bed heaters" R"Heaters" S0 T1
G4 S1.1 ; wait for popup
while iterations < #heat.bedHeaters
	if heat.bedHeaters[iterations] !=-1
		M140 P{iterations} S0 R0
		M140 P{iterations} S-276
		M291 P{"Bed heater # " ^ iterations ^ " off"} R"Heaters" S0 T1
		G4 S1.1 ; wait for popup
echo "All bed heaters turned off"

gbartsch

Thank you @deckingman and @OwenD

Sorry for such a late reply. Our family got the plague and I was last to succumb; I felt quite unwell and could not think. I've finally implemented your advice.

This is is my slicer start code. I've done as you suggest and used M568 in place of M104. Is G10 directly interchangeable with M568? Is one 'better' than the other?

Is there a way to let the let the nozzle heater stabilize before printing of the prime strip begins? Now the nozzle sits as the heater temperature ramps up and as soon as the first layer temperature is reached the prime strip is printed. But because the heater is ramping up it over-shoots by about 5C before dropping to the first layer temperature as the first layer begins. This doesn't seem to be a problem but I'm just wondering if there is a way to avoid the overshoot?

I'm quite clueless with g-code and have mostly hacked together what I have by copying what I've seen elsewhere over time. I sort of understand what your macros do @OwenD but am not entirely sure nor am I sure how these run.

Your slicer end code calls M0 to shut down the nozzle heater? How exactly does that look? Sorry I'm really am clueless with this.

G28 ; home all axes

M140 S{first_layer_bed_temperature} ; set bed temp
M190 S{first_layer_bed_temperature} ; wait for bed temp

G1 X100 Y5 F9000 ; move nozzle over middle of the front of the build plate
G1 Z1.0 F9000 ; lower nozzle 1.0mm from glass

M568 S{first_layer_temperature} ; set extruder temp
M109 S{first_layer_temperature} ; wait for extruder temp

G92 E0
G1 X50 E6 F300 ; extrude a thick line to prime extruder

deckingman

@gbartsch G10 and M568 do exactly the same thing. But G10 does a lot of things besides setting the tool temperatures which is why it has been deprecated. Think of the current situation as a transition period where both commands will work but it's highly likely that at some point in the future, setting tool temperatures using G10 will no longer function.

Ref the overshoot, as you say a 5 degree overshoot shouldn't be a problem when printing a skirt but you could use G4 to add a short pause after your M109.

dc42

@gbartsch said in How to Deactivate the Heater/s?:

But because the heater is ramping up it over-shoots by about 5C before dropping to the first layer temperature as the first layer begins. This doesn't seem to be a problem but I'm just wondering if there is a way to avoid the overshoot?

Try increasing the M308 R parameter for that heater by 5% or 10% above the value that you got when you ran M303 heater tuning.

gbartsch

@dc42 Thank you. My firmware is 2.04 so maybe that's why I don't have M308 and an R value?

These are my PID Autotune settings:

M307 P13.1, I0.489, D46.8

Other heater values are:

; Heaters
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M305 P0 T100000 B4092 R4700               ; set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 0
M143 H0 S120                              ; set temperature limit for heater 0 to 120C

M305 P1 T100000 B4395 R4700             ; set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 1
M143 H1 S260                            ; set temperature limit for heater 1 to 260C

gbartsch

@deckingman Thank you, I'll try M109 just to learn even though the temperature fluctuation levels out during the skirt printing.

deckingman

@gbartsch To be clear, M109 will wait until the heater reaches temperature. My suggestion was to add an additional G4 pause after the M109 command. The length of the pause would equal the time it takes for the overshoot to settle. But DCs suggestion to reduce the overshoot would be better.