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    • kb58undefined
      kb58 @Topher
      last edited by

      @leckietech Interesting. I will try that, and thank you!

      Scratch-built 350mmx350mm coreXY, linear rails, ballscrews, 3 Z axis, Duet3 6HC, v3.3, Tool Board v1.1, BondTech LGX + Mosquito hot end

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      • kb58undefined
        kb58
        last edited by kb58

        This is both amusing and annoying...

        Tried the 0.8 trick above, which worked, and it successfully completed the M303 calibration. Loaded the new calibration values:

         M307 H1 B0 R4.479 C161.3:92.0 D8.69 S0.80 V26.3
        

        The hotend was allowed to cool, then set it to 205C. Irritatingly, it again overshot by 8C, exactly as before. It's almost as if the tuning parameters are being ignored.
        58cdb400-1691-45ea-a8bd-6c71e08cc9b3-image.png

        It works well enough that I can get on with printing, but it's annoying that the tuning parameters seemingly have little or no effect.

        Scratch-built 350mmx350mm coreXY, linear rails, ballscrews, 3 Z axis, Duet3 6HC, v3.3, Tool Board v1.1, BondTech LGX + Mosquito hot end

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        • kb58undefined
          kb58
          last edited by kb58

          Hmm, I wonder what's going on here. Aside from the hotend heater issue, the bed heater has always had a bit of the opposite problem: being a bit casual about achieving the target temperature (60C). It gets there eventually and maintains temperature well, but it's very slow to get there. I would expect a small amount of overshoot given that it's a PID-tuned 750W 115VAC heater.
          The top line is what the parameters were, and the bottom line shows what the R factor was changed to. Again, just like the hotend heater, it made no difference. I'm wondering why no one else has experienced this, so it's probably something I've set wrong.

          ;M307 H0 B0 R0.394 C847.1 D16.26 S1.00		        ; set PID constants (from autotune, M303)
          M307 H0 B0 R0.47 C847.1 D16.26 S1.00		        ; set PID constants (from autotune, M303)
          

          Scratch-built 350mmx350mm coreXY, linear rails, ballscrews, 3 Z axis, Duet3 6HC, v3.3, Tool Board v1.1, BondTech LGX + Mosquito hot end

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          • Phaedruxundefined
            Phaedrux Moderator @kb58
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            @kb58 said in Hotend heater fine tuning:

            It's almost as if the tuning parameters are being ignored.

            How are you saving the tuned parameters? M500 after tuning and having M501 at the end of config.g? Or are you manually entering them in config.g? And if you're manually entering them, do you also have M501 at the end of config.g and a config-override.g file?

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            • kb58undefined
              kb58 @Phaedrux
              last edited by kb58

              @phaedrux Thank you for the reply.

              I manually copy/pasted the results produced by the PID tuning process into config.g. I do not have an M501 at the end of config.g, and was expecting that the printer would use the values in config.g. Since it doesn't work though, I'm not understanding something.

              Scratch-built 350mmx350mm coreXY, linear rails, ballscrews, 3 Z axis, Duet3 6HC, v3.3, Tool Board v1.1, BondTech LGX + Mosquito hot end

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              • Phaedruxundefined
                Phaedrux Moderator
                last edited by

                As a test, could you send M500 after tuning so that a config-override.g file gets generated and then compare the resulting line to what you had manually entered?

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                • kb58undefined
                  kb58 @Phaedrux
                  last edited by kb58

                  @phaedrux Performed "M303 P0.8 S200 T0", and it failed with the same claim that the heater was inconsistent yet the plot appears okay:

                  fa4b1f56-66c3-459b-90f0-b8c0f0d42620-image.png

                  Regardless, an M500 was commanded and the printer reported:
                  dfcd74d6-eaab-40aa-92ce-cc4c8b96b59a-image.png

                  The contents of config-override.g:

                  ; config-override.g file generated in response to M500 at 2021-08-06 14:03
                  ; This is a system-generated file - do not edit
                  ; Heater model parameters
                  M307 H0 R0.470 C847.100:847.100 D16.26 S1.00 V0.0 B0 I0
                  M307 H1 R4.613 C146.384:98.384 D8.03 S0.80 V26.3 B0 I0
                  ; Workplace coordinates...
                  

                  Comparing the two:
                  M307 H1 R4.613 C146.384:98.384 D8.03 S0.80 V26.3 B0 I0 ; recommended by the PID tuning routine to be stored in config.g
                  M307 H1 B0 R4.613 C146.4:98.4 D8.03 S0.80 V26.3 ; created by M500

                  Where do I go from here?

                  Scratch-built 350mmx350mm coreXY, linear rails, ballscrews, 3 Z axis, Duet3 6HC, v3.3, Tool Board v1.1, BondTech LGX + Mosquito hot end

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                  • Phaedruxundefined
                    Phaedrux Moderator @kb58
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                    @kb58 said in Hotend heater fine tuning:

                    Where do I go from here?

                    Well the results of functionally identical, so I'm not sure where to go from here.

                    Can you post some photos of the hotend so we can get a sense of what the setup actually is? Getting some eyes on it might give some clues.

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                    • kb58undefined
                      kb58 @Phaedrux
                      last edited by kb58

                      @phaedrux Before I post pictures, what does this actually mean:
                      8a30a6af-84e8-4164-b146-87a020f3dc64-image.png

                      What makes the firmware post this? I'd assume it's that it's seeing different temperature changes even though the heater is enabled for the same period of time, but my M303 temperature plots look good, so what is it looking at that makes it unable to succeed?

                      Scratch-built 350mmx350mm coreXY, linear rails, ballscrews, 3 Z axis, Duet3 6HC, v3.3, Tool Board v1.1, BondTech LGX + Mosquito hot end

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                      • Phaedruxundefined
                        Phaedrux Moderator
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                        It means that the heating and cooling rates didn't settle down to consistent values after several cycles. One possible reason is noise in the temperature sensor readings, which would be apparent in temperature graph. However, your graph appears to be stable, at least in the time scale it can display.

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