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Thanks Tony,
That is what I thought, just wanted a sanity check.
Although in my case sanity is probably a wrong word.

@zesty_lykle said in Ease of use:

Man oh man, am I happy with this stuff!
Just received my new Duet board and I have to say, setting it up is so easy! Made a config at https://configurator.reprapfirmware.org/ and downloaded the zip file. Uploaded it in the Duet and presto! One running system.

Thank you guys!

That exactly describes my experience with the Duet. 🙂

For the water temperature you need to set up a virtual heater, not use heater 2.

there is a very Active chat re 3D printing on Discord https://discord.gg/eY2WJR3 where I push the Duet at every opportunity

Doug.

Its a massively time saving feature if you do make frequent changes, as I also do, to your machines, so I can wholeheartedly agree and offer my thanks too.

However… it might be nice to have the option to save the offset even after power cycling, and directly by clicking save rather than by changing G31 and doing an m500 - thats how the save feature would work isnt it, the firmware would just send G31 Z(current)+babystep offset, M500, clear babystep offset, reset.

Its great that the offset remains from one print to the next its a move in the right direction.

Although its interesting that baystepping, like bed compensation is something which you either use and think is great or can see no need for at all, as your machine is mechanically perfect and never changes.

Usually, new versions of RRF will work with versions of DWC one or two versions out of date. The reverse may not be true because new versions o DWC sometimes rely on features in the latest RRF.

You can get any version of RRF or DWC you want from GitHub by using the History feature.

Thank for the speed comment. I will make them identical. Never gave it any thought,

I notice that I can print normally now, but I have to do a Home before I can print, otherwise the extruder starts misbehaving. This is not a real problem, but it seems to be new. I don't remember eve having this issue, but I am back at 1.15b so I must have just happen to miss it during that time.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

@deckingman:

Lykle,

I have a theory (but it's unproven) that cartridge heaters "age" when you start pushing them to higher temperatures. I have one that used to do some testing on heat sink compound and which I pushed up to 400 deg C hot end temperature (yes I know it was extreme but had to be done in this case). Ever since then, that cartridge behaves completely different to any others (I have 10 of the things laying around). It still works but needs completely different PID settings to any others (and takes takes longer to reach the desired temperature). Maybe you had something similar happen and that was what you were seeing from one day to the next? Just a thought.
Ian

A resistance measurement between a good cartridge and an "aged" cartridge would go a long way to prove your theory. Short of some super thermal insulator forming inside the cartridge if the resistance stays the same it should work more or less the same, air gaps aside. Funny I found E3D's 30w heater to be 30 watts. I found some no name heaters I got off amazon which look good to instead of 40w be around 47w. Talk about too much heat.

Jeff

Yes I tried rotating the bed. No real change.
I will try covering the bed with a single sheet of white, see if that makes a difference.
Thanks for the idea.

The way I do it is to keep and maintain the complete system on my PC backed up to a NAS as well as cloud storage. Files are only ever transferred from the PC to the sd card, not the other way round. Given the number of posts I've read from people who have lost or damaged or had failures of their sd cards, it seems like a good plan to me.

The other thing you might want to add to that macro (or another macro) is to redefine the bed size (axes minima and maxima) using M208. Just a thought….....

I found on my corexy with 0.8mm nozzle with a volcano hotend, it stopped extruding over 50mm/s on infill.

The post is here
https://www.duet3d.com/forum/thread.php?id=8

I will move this to the firmware wishlist section

To be honest, I gave up as I was way too busy with the Nimble.
So have not looked at getting it sorted out.
But I think the problem was more on my side than the hardware side.

And if you don't turn off heaters in the cancel.g file, but you do have a cancel.g file (with g28, for eg) the heaters don't turn off. I like this feature very much, as I manually set Z height and so having the heaters remain on saves time when restarting a print to adjust z height.

I'd like to add my thanks here too! The community around the Duet is by far the most helful and friendly I have come across. It is partucularly helpful having core developers like dc43 and T3P3Tony around and willing to answer questions. Maybe it's becuase we're all mad keen to make the most out of our kit?