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    • Shotfire
      Shotfire last edited by

      Printer was working fine after upgrading to Duet Wifi. Then I went to change the extruder to a Titan geared extruder. Knowing I needed to change the steps because off the gear reduction I removed just the extruder and motor ( Using the same motor that was working fine before) and placed it on my bench to calibrate the extrusion steps. Turned power on, sent a T0 then M302 P1 then G1 E100 F600, the extruder worked fine. Then I sent another G1 E100 F600 and nothing happened. I tried several more times but the extruder didn't turn. No error messages in the console. Tried sending all the commands again and nothing. I could here the motor holding so I sent a M18 and the motor turned off, then tried again and nothing. Then I rebooted the board and still nothing. Then I powered the board off and back on, then sent the same series of commands and it worked, tried to send a second G1 command and nothing. If I power the board off and back on it will work the first time every time I recycle power but after that it won't respond until I recycle power. All other motors work fine, this problem seems to be isolated to the extruder motor. Any Ideas what is going on? Thanks

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      • dc42
        dc42 administrators last edited by

        My guess is that you have a temperature set for tool 0 and you are getting a heating fault within a few seconds of sending the T0 command. Have you checked the DWC Console page for messages?

        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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        • Shotfire
          Shotfire last edited by

          The Console shows no error messages. The DWC shows the heater is off

          Here's the tool definition section:

          ; 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

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          • Shotfire
            Shotfire last edited by

            When I send the extrude command after re-powering the heater goes "active" but no faults

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            • dc42
              dc42 administrators last edited by

              I've just thought of another possibility, which is that you are in absolute extrusion mode. Try sending M83.

              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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              • Shotfire
                Shotfire last edited by

                Thanks, that was the problem. I'm frustrated that I missed that. Argh I should have known that.
                Thanks again dc42

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