I think my new Magnetic Filament Monitor is dead.
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Here is my config.g.
I'm running a direct drive setup with an E3D Hemera. I have sort of a double sleeve going for the cables, and that lets me have the wires for the filament monitor running in parallel, but not absolutely against the other wires. It's sort of visible in one of the pictures above. Not really sure how else to do it in a direct drive setup.If you think you can fix the issue with firmware, that is great. but at this point I have almost no fait that the filament monitor I have is reliable. while I have gotten some prints finished without it pausing, they are the minority. overall its been an unpleasant experience with near constant pauses and ruined prints.
Like I said, I'm willing to try to get this working. but I'm not willing to keep with the current way this is going. I need to be printing parts that have been ordered. So, for now, the monitor is disconnected. I've been playing this the way Duet3D says I have to, but I'd have returned this for another one or my money back a month ago if I could. Overall, this product and its implementation seems more like a beta product than a premium product ready to go off the shelf.
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@shinook, you can leave the filament monitor connected but disabled, by using S0 in the M591 command instead of S1. Then RRF will still count errors it detects when receiving data. This would be useful, because the number of framing errors logged over a period of 12 hours (or whatever other time period is convenient for you) will give us a benchmark against which to compare changes to the hardware or firmware.
Although I doubt that this is a hardware issue, it would be good to eliminate a hardware fault, so I suggest we send you another filament monitor. Who did you purchase it from?
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Thanks! I’ll make that change, and hopefully it does collect some good data that can help. I really do want this to work.
Filasturder order #53356
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Unfortunately there is no filament monitor data in that report, so either the report was truncated or the filament monitor wasn't configured at all.
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Sorry about that. I went in and changed it to S0, and I guess I forgot to uncomment the line.
I’ll hopefully get some useful data tomorrow. -
Thanks.
Unfortunately both we and Filastruder are out of stock of magnetic filament monitors, so it may be a little while before we can get you another one to try. It's the housings we have run out of, so we may be able to send you just the board.
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Well, it will be a bit... Hemera gear broke today.
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Sorry about the delay in this testing... my Hemera gear broke, then we moved to another city and it took me a while to get the printer going again.
But, that said, I'm having more problems even with the the command changed to S0 for debugging.. I'm still getting pauses for extruder not working. I have commented out the line because I'd really like to at least get a print going. But if there is anything I can check or do, I'm open for suggestions.
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@shinook said in I think my new Magnetic Filament Monitor is dead.:
I'm open for suggestions.
I think we were going to try replacing it if you're still interested in doing that. I'm not sure what the current stock situation is, but check with filastruder if they can replace and if not fill out the form here to see if you can get something directly from Duet. https://www.duet3d.com/warranty
In either case, refer to this thread.
