X/Y Axis problem, moves only part way

[Jabbery]

Thanks for a response

Note that if I manually move the X and Y axis to their max, the home moves them back to their 0 position.

config.g
; Configuration file for Duet WiFi (firmware version 1.21)
; executed by the firmware on start-up
;
; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v2 on Mon Feb 04 2019 02:18:18 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

; General preferences
G90 ; Send absolute coordinates...
M83 ; ...but relative extruder moves

; Network
M550 P"FLSun" ; Set machine name
M552 P0.0.0.0 S1 ; Enable network and acquire dynamic address via DHCP
M586 P0 S1 ; Enable HTTP
M586 P1 S1 ; Enable FTP
M586 P2 S1 ; Enable Telnet

; Drives
M569 P0 S1 ; Drive 0 goes forwards X
M569 P1 S0 ; Drive 1 goes forwards Y
M569 P2 S1 ; Drive 2 goes forwards Z
M569 P3 S0 ; Drive 3 goes forwards Extruder
M350 X32 Y32 Z32 E32 I0 ; Configure microstepping without interpolation
M92 X200.00 Y200.00 Z800.00 E174.00 ; Set steps per mm
M566 X900.00 Y900.00 Z12.00 E120.00 ; Set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 X6000.00 Y6000.00 Z180.00 E1200.00 ; Set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z20.00 E250.00 ; Set accelerations (mm/s^2)
M906 X800.00 Y800.00 Z800.00 E800.00 I50 ; Set motor currents (mA) and motor idle factor in per cent
M84 S0 ; Disable motor idle current reduction

; Axis Limits
M208 X0 Y0 Z0 S1 ; Set axis minima
M208 X300 Y300 Z420 S0 ; Set axis maxima

; Endstops
M574 X1 Y1 S1 ; Set active high endstops

; Z-Probe
M574 Z1 S2 ; Set endstops controlled by probe
M307 H7 A-1 C-1 D-1
M558 P9 H5 F120 T6000 ; Set Z probe type to bltouch and the dive height + speeds
G31 P500 X44 Y-4 Z2.80 ; Set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger height
M557 X50:250 Y50:250 S25 ; Define mesh grid
G29 S1 ; LOAD EXISTING MESHMAP
; Heaters
M305 P0 T100000 B4138 R4700 ; Set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 0
M143 H0 S120 ; Set temperature limit for heater 0 to 115C
M305 P1 T100000 B4138 R4700 ; Set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 1
M143 H1 S280 ; Set temperature limit for heater 1 to 275C

; Fans
M106 P0 S0.3 I0 F500 H-1 ; Set fan 0 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off
M106 P1 S1 I0 F500 H1 T45 ; Set fan 1 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned on

; Tools
M563 P0 D0 H1 ; Define tool 0
G10 P0 X0 Y0 Z0 ; Set tool 0 axis offsets
G10 P0 R0 S0 ; Set initial tool 0 active and standby temperatures to 0C

; Automatic saving after power loss is not enabled

; Custom settings are not configured
M404 N1.75 D0.4 ;SET FILAMENT SIZE AND NOZZLE SIZE

; homeall.g
; called to home all axes
;
; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v2 on Mon Feb 04 2019 02:18:18 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

M144 S0 ; Bed on Standby
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 Z5 F6000 S2 ; lift Z relative to current position
M98 Pdeployprobe.g ; deploy mechanical Z probe
G1 S1 X-305 Y-305 F1800 ; move quickly to X and Y axis endstops and stop there (first pass)
G1 X5 Y5 F6000 ; go back a few mm
G1 S1 X-305 Y-305 F360 ; move slowly to X and Y axis endstops once more (second pass)
G90 ; absolute positioning
G1 X135 Y161 F6000 ; go to first bed probe point and home Z
G30 ; home Z by probing the bed
M144 S1 ;Take bed off standby

; Uncomment the following lines to lift Z after probing
;G91 ; relative positioning
;G1 S2 Z5 F100 ; lift Z relative to current position
;G90 ; absolute positioning

M98 Pretractprobe.g ; retract mechanical Z probe

; homex.g
; called to home the X axis
;
; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v2 on Mon Feb 04 2019 02:18:18 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 Z5 F6000 S2 ; lift Z relative to current position
G1 S1 X-305 F1800 ; move quickly to X axis endstop and stop there (first pass)
G1 X5 F6000 ; go back a few mm
G1 S1 X-305 F360 ; move slowly to X axis endstop once more (second pass)
G1 Z-5 F6000 S2 ; lower Z again
G90 ; absolute positioning

; homey.g
; called to home the Y axis
;
; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v2 on Mon Feb 04 2019 02:18:19 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 Z5 F6000 S2 ; lift Z relative to current position
G1 S1 Y-305 F1800 ; move quickly to Y axis endstop and stop there (first pass)
G1 Y5 F6000 ; go back a few mm
G1 S1 Y-305 F360 ; move slowly to Y axis endstop once more (second pass)
G1 Z-5 F6000 S2 ; lower Z again
G90 ; absolute positioning

; homez.g
; called to home the Z axis
;
; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v2 on Mon Feb 04 2019 02:18:19 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)
M144 S0 ;PUT BED ON STANDBY FOR ACCURACY OF ZPROBE
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 Z5 F6000 S2 ; lift Z relative to current position
G90 ; absolute positioning
G1 X135 Y161 F6000 ; go to first probe point
;G1 X35 Y61 F6000 ; go to first probe point
G30 ; home Z by probing the bed

M144 S1 ;PUT BED ACTIVE

; Uncomment the following lines to lift Z after probing
;G91 ; relative positioning
;G1 S2 Z5 F100 ; lift Z relative to current position
;G90 ; absolute positioning

M122 report
=== Diagnostics ===
RepRapFirmware for Duet 2 WiFi/Ethernet version 2.02(RTOS) running on Duet Ethernet 1.02 or later
Board ID: 08DGM-9T6BU-FG3S4-6JKD4-3SD6K-KURBF
Used output buffers: 3 of 20 (14 max)
=== RTOS ===
Static ram: 25524
Dynamic ram: 98176 of which 0 recycled
Exception stack ram used: 328
Never used ram: 7044
Tasks: NETWORK(ready,544) HEAT(blocked,1232) MAIN(running,3788) IDLE(ready,200)
Owned mutexes:
=== Platform ===
Last reset 00:11:59 ago, cause: power up
Last software reset at 2019-02-13 14:18, reason: User, spinning module GCodes, available RAM 7028 bytes (slot 2)
Software reset code 0x0003 HFSR 0x00000000 CFSR 0x00000000 ICSR 0x0441f000 BFAR 0xe000ed38 SP 0xffffffff Task 0x4e49414d
Error status: 0
Free file entries: 10
SD card 0 detected, interface speed: 20.0MBytes/sec
SD card longest block write time: 0.0ms, max retries 0
MCU temperature: min 23.3, current 27.5, max 29.0
Supply voltage: min 12.3, current 12.3, max 12.4, under voltage events: 0, over voltage events: 0, power good: yes
Driver 0: standstill, SG min/max not available
Driver 1: standstill, SG min/max not available
Driver 2: standstill, SG min/max not available
Driver 3: standstill, SG min/max not available
Driver 4: standstill, SG min/max not available
Date/time: 2019-02-13 15:51:19
Cache data hit count 1807026636
Slowest loop: 1.68ms; fastest: 0.07ms
I2C nak errors 0, send timeouts 0, receive timeouts 0, finishTimeouts 0
=== Move ===
Hiccups: 0, StepErrors: 0, LaErrors: 0, FreeDm: 240, MinFreeDm: 240, MaxWait: 0ms, Underruns: 0, 0
Scheduled moves: 0, completed moves: 0
Bed compensation in use: mesh
Bed probe heights: 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
=== Heat ===
Bed heaters = 0 -1 -1 -1, chamberHeaters = -1 -1
=== GCodes ===
Segments left: 0
Stack records: 1 allocated, 0 in use
Movement lock held by null
http is idle in state(s) 0
telnet is idle in state(s) 0
file is idle in state(s) 0
serial is idle in state(s) 0
aux is idle in state(s) 0
daemon is idle in state(s) 0
queue is idle in state(s) 0
autopause is idle in state(s) 0
Code queue is empty.
=== Network ===
Slowest loop: 5.72ms; fastest: 0.02ms
Responder states: HTTP(0) HTTP(0) HTTP(0) HTTP(0) FTP(0) Telnet(0) Telnet(0)
HTTP sessions: 1 of 8
Interface state 5, link 100Mbps full duplex

deployprobe.g
M280 P7 S10 I1

retractprobe.g
M280 P7 S90 I1

[Phaedrux]

Thanks for the extra info, makes it much easier to understand what's going on and provide feedback.

First, for your BLTouch config.

Your G31 command in config.g. Try using P25 instead of P500, which should make the trigger threshold respond faster.

The Z trigger height of 2.8 would indicate that the probe itself might be mounted a little too high. The BLTouch documentation specifies that the base of the plastic probe body should be ~8mm from the nozzle tip. This should lead to a trigger height of around 2mm.

Next, your Z speeds are quite slow, this can lead to some odd results when the probe is raising again after triggering and may explain the double tap you describe. Try these settings for your Z axis.

M566 Z60 (instead of 12)
M203 Z300 (instead of 180)
M201 Z120 (instead of 20)

Can you confirm if this is a genuine BLTouch or a clone? You call it a 3D Touch so I'm guessing a clone.
Have you cut the trace if applicable?
Take a look at this page for more BLTouch specific things: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/BLTouch_Troubleshooting

Now for your homing files. You don't need to use M98 Pdeployprobe.g since the firmware will take care of deploying and retracting as needed. This could also explain the double tap you describe. Infact, deploying the probe before moving in X and Y can have the very bad result of catching the pin on the edge of the bed. Ask me how I know.

I also notice you're controlling the bed temp for z probe accuracy. The easiest way to do this is to change your M558 command in config.g to include B1 which will turn off all heaters during a probing move, and then re-enable them afterwards.

Now for the X and Y axis movement thing. Can you confirm that your 0,0 origin position is located at the front left of the printer if you were looking directly at it? Can you also confirm that your endstops are also at the 0,0 low end?

[Jabbery]

Thank you for all the info, wow helpful.

The 3dTouch is a clone, unfortunately money is very tight and I had to settle for the risk of trouble over the real thing. The inductive probe that came with the FLSun repeat accuracy I measured at .9mm which of course was horrible. The 3dTouch I tested at .15mm repeat. Not sure if that is horrible also but it is of course less horrible. I eyeballed the geometry needed to print a bracket and I was off a little 0.85mm over is fairly close for eyeballing I think. I will once the printer is printing again make a new bracket.

The M98 was a leftover of trying the probe configured as P5. Initially the probe would not deploy so I tried a few things. All it was needing is an I1 added to the end of the M280 commands. I did try both ways with and without.

0,0 was a tough piece of information to find on the internet on its location but yes standing in front of the printer 0,0 is on the left side closest to me. I did have X backwards when I assembled the printer (ok its my first time lol), found it odd when I printed items from thingiverse were wrong and mirrored then the bulb turned on and I figured it out.

Endstops for X/Y are at 0/0.

I built up the nerve after watching countless youtube videos to jump into the game of 3d printing, apparently I was in need of banging my head on the wall more than usual. lol We all need aggravation, I think that is the definition of a hobby.

The probe did seem to work find, I was able to do a repeat test of about 30 probes on the same point to get a feel for its accuracy with the G30 S-1 command and then raise Z +5 between. I was also able to HomeAll. It all stopped when I was troubleshooting the double tap and switched to the M558 P5, the old way.

After implementing the changes you suggested nothing seems to have changed with the axis issue.

To give an explanation of what happens further to earlier when I was in a bit of a rush.
I press the HomeAll button,
Z moves up, X & Y move to their 0 position and then away slightly and slowly back, z moves back down. Once X/Y is complete the Z raises and it stops with no movement of X or Y. Selecting any movement function does nothing.
If I home X and Y I can move the nozzle to +75 (earlier I said 80 in error). As long as I stay in 0-75 I can move any direction of X/Y. If I move to 76 all movement functions are ignored. Z does nothing but report a not homed. Something possibly important to note is after homing the X/Y and moving the X/Y manually, after it stops moving the Machine status shows all the position changes, just the nozzle doesn't move. i.e if I click X+100, X will move to 75 and stop and the display shows 100, if I click again X+100 the head does nothing and the machine status shows X200.

There is 1 other tidbit of information I found conflicting in the web installation information that could lead to the problem, don't know. In the information on the duet forum and its links to other pages explaining the install of the bltouch it talked about the old bltouch being +5v on its signal and that a 240 Ohm resistor is needed, someone chimed in on the latest version of the duet board being protected and did not need the 240 ohm resistor, I did try it both ways. Not sure if that could have blown something and thus messed up the steppers. Doesn't make a lot of logical sense though since they happily move inside the 0-75.

Now to add more fun to the problem, further testing.
I changed a homeall.g line from:
G1 X135 Z161 F6000
to:
G1 X35 Y35 F6000 ; probe position inside of the X0:75/Y0:75

With the resistor installed the head crashed into the bed, probe seemed to operate properly
With the resistor removed the home worked properly.

But still limited to the 0-75 X/Y problem. Z now travels properly with no limit, I ran it up to Z+350 and back to +5 and no problem. If I move X to 75 Z is dead as all axis.

Weird, lol

[Phaedrux]

Ok, so the Z probe seems to be working now?

I'm not sure if the resistor would be needed or not. The Duet should be able to handle it, but others have reported success when using clones and either using the resistor or cutting the 3.3v trace if present. It gets kind of messy when using the clones. Usually they can be made to work, but they are typically copies of the older style BLTouch probes which had problems of their own. The newer 2.0 BLTouch probes seem to be very reliable.

As for the axis movement, I think there are two things to check. First check for any mechanical binding or blockages or belts slipping, loose grub screws, wires being pulled, etc. Second, we need to verify your steps per mm values and microstepping.

M350 X32 Y32 Z32 E32 I0 ; Configure microstepping without interpolation
M92 X200.00 Y200.00 Z800.00 E174.00 ; Set steps per mm

First, I would suggest using x16 microstepping with interpolation to begin with. If you want to experiment with other values later once things are working it'll be easier to do if it's first setup for x16 anyway.

M350 X16 Y16 Z16 E16 I1

Next we need to check the steps per mm values and calculate what they should be for x16 microsteps.

How did you arrive at M92 X200.00 Y200.00 Z800.00 E174.00 ?

E steps can be calculated with e_steps_per_mm = (motor_steps_per_rev * driver_microstep) * (big_gear_teeth / small_gear_teeth) / (hob_effective_diameter * pi)

Z steps can be calculated with Z_steps_per_mm = (motor_steps_per_rev * driver_microstep) / thread_pitch

XY steps can be calculated with xy_steps_per_mm = (motor_steps_per_rev ∗ driver_microstep) / (belt_pitch ∗ pulley_number_of_teeth)

If you don't have the details to calculate them, there might be a marlin configuration with them prepopulated. I did a quick google for FLSun i3 but wasn't able to find anything.

You might also find this helpful just starting out though I think you're well on your way. https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Step_by_step_guide

[Jabbery]

Yes the z probe is working.

There are no blockages, moving the axis with the power off is smooth for X/Y, Z is tougher to try with 2 steppers and lead screws.

I change to 16 micro stepping as you suggested. No change in distance X/Y can move before it stops accepting move commands. I also cut all M92 values in half for the micro stepping change.

I did the calibration likely the hard way.
X/Y/Z was calibrated by measuring 100mm move with a ruler and E was measured through the filament movement.

[Jabbery]

Further testing I ran a test print of a 20mm cube placed in the corner so all parts of the cube are inside the 75mm X/Y current unknown reason limits. It printed fine. X/Y print size was 20mm, I aborted the print after about 15 layers.

[dc42]

@jabbery said in X/Y Axis problem, moves only part way:

If I home X and Y I can move the nozzle to +75 (earlier I said 80 in error). As long as I stay in 0-75 I can move any direction of X/Y. If I move to 76 all movement functions are ignored. Z does nothing but report a not homed. Something possibly important to note is after homing the X/Y and moving the X/Y manually, after it stops moving the Machine status shows all the position changes, just the nozzle doesn't move. i.e if I click X+100, X will move to 75 and stop and the display shows 100, if I click again X+100 the head does nothing and the machine status shows X200.

Please try removing the G29 S1 command from config.g. It's not usual to load a height map file in config.g, also you may have a bad height map file. If you want to load a height map automatically, then I suggest you put the G29 S1 command at the end of homeall.g. But I suggest you delete the existing height map file anyway, and generate a new one by probing if this fixes the XY movement limitation.

[Jabbery]

I don't think I could express my appreciation enough for all the help. Thank you for the suggestions.

I am running a 20mm cube test and thought I would let it complete, its inside the 75 x 75 coords so it prints. When I ran the test and aborted it earlier I seen another problem with some issue of the feeder was having trouble pushing filament, I found a burr in the new hot end I installed (heat break).

I will do that test shortly, the heightmap is actually there and it is from the removed inductive probe so it is very wrong.

[Jabbery]

Nice, your a savior

It was the old hightmap, I removed it and X/Y axis is running normal. I also moved the G29 S1 to the homeall.g and homez.g .

Thanks very much everyone for your awesome assistance.

[Phaedrux]

Glad it's working now.