Pressure Advance killing extruder motor

ayudtee

I can't explain the mystery as to why PA is causing this problem, very strange that everything works when it is turned off. PA is such a good feature, its worth trying to get it to work. I am recommending that you consider increasing your extruder motor current. 400mA seems low to me, as I am running 800mA on my Ormerod 2 and 700mA on my Delta.

deckingman

@ayudtee The motor current is what the stepper motor can tolerate and a good rule of thumb is to 85% of the rated maximum. So increasing the current to 800mA would not be a good idea if the Op's motors are rated at (say) 500 mA.

gnydick

@deckingman they're definitely rated for more. I think the logic is, at 40:1 gearing, anything much more than 400-500mA doesn't work well. I've tried it, it's not happy.

deckingman

@gnydick said in Pressure Advance killing extruder motor:

@deckingman they're definitely rated for more. I think the logic is, at 40:1 gearing, anything much more than 400-500mA doesn't work well. I've tried it, it's not happy.

Fair enough - there is nothing in this thread to state what the rated current of your motors are so I had to revet to using a crystal ball.

Referring back to my earlier post of 30th March @ 05:51, I might have some ideas but you haven't answered the questions I asked.

Alexander Mundy

It was explained to me this way. At such high steps per time frame required with high gear ratio the current doesn't have much time to decay and so higher current exasperates the situation. With 3.6 degree steppers I run normal current levels but couldn't with 1.8 degree steppers.

dc42

With such a high gearing ratio, you don't need much torque but you do need low inertia and high speed. So I suggest choosing a motor with low inductance, modest torque, and a high ratio of holding torque to rotor inertia. Run it close to its rated current (e.g. 85%).

Edgars Batna

@garis said in Pressure Advance killing extruder motor:

Perhaps I haven't used a sufficiently high magnifying glass to understand what defects I should be observing or tolerating. My printing experience is limited and just now I am reprinting a few parts to upgrade the originals I printed for my Hypercube now that it is working.

You need to use a magnifying crystal ball, preferably with Christmas decorations within the ball.

For the XY motors this is of concern but for the extruder I could imagine some/much of this resonance would be absorbed by the plastic, and perhaps some under extrusion if steps were missed. For a stepper with 2,600 steps that is likely to be of minor concern???

At 40:1 there's basically no resistance whatsoever on the motor end to absorb anything, so there is just the rotor.

gnydick

@dc42 thanks. Can you give an example of what qualifies as those suggestions? low inductance, modest, torque, high ratio of holding torque to rotor inertia?

garis

@dc42 My pancake has more than enough torque @ 30:1. What is the reason to use high current?

dc42

@garis said in Pressure Advance killing extruder motor:

@dc42 My pancake has more than enough torque @ 30:1. What is the reason to use high current?

The reason to use a motor current close to the rated maximum is to provide enough torque to overcome the inertia of the rotor, because high gearing means you need high acceleration.