Newly assembled with some mmm issues
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:30 am
Hi, I just assembled my aluminium Prusa i3 clone and had some issues upfront and would love some assistance.
1. Bed home locs. The bed homes off the plate defaulting to about 10mm away from the home corner. In x and y axis.
2. X axis movement is about 3x as far as it should be I think by steps. I have a 20x20 plate, and it seems ok on the y axis, but on the x when moving by 10mm increments it crashes into the far side at 60mm, or 6 clicks. Noting the extremity of this, I wasn't convinced it was just a calibration issue. Thoughts?
UPDATE: THE PCB was missing a jumper and therefore changed the step configuration of the driver - FIXED.
3. LCD screen. This boots ok, but sometimes i lose the visual feed altogether, and other times in displays gibberish that looks like wingdings font.
UPDATE - REPLACED. OCCASIONAL NOW.
4. Card reader on lcd back is not picking up a card. Tried 3 different ones. No joy. Need to Replace?
REPLACED - FIXED.
5. Z axis issues. The z stepper were clicking/jamming on upwards motion especially. Checked levels, adjusted angles, loosened top brackets and brass nuts, filed out top bracket holes and lubricated to limited success. Cranked the potentiometer on the z stepper and it's working with everything loosened, but worried I might cause issues long term. Replace lead screws and rods?
The rest I worked out but some of these stumped me. Have not done firmware stuff before so a little lost with that but assuming that may be the only way to resolve some of these issues.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Mick
1. Bed home locs. The bed homes off the plate defaulting to about 10mm away from the home corner. In x and y axis.
2. X axis movement is about 3x as far as it should be I think by steps. I have a 20x20 plate, and it seems ok on the y axis, but on the x when moving by 10mm increments it crashes into the far side at 60mm, or 6 clicks. Noting the extremity of this, I wasn't convinced it was just a calibration issue. Thoughts?
UPDATE: THE PCB was missing a jumper and therefore changed the step configuration of the driver - FIXED.
3. LCD screen. This boots ok, but sometimes i lose the visual feed altogether, and other times in displays gibberish that looks like wingdings font.
UPDATE - REPLACED. OCCASIONAL NOW.
4. Card reader on lcd back is not picking up a card. Tried 3 different ones. No joy. Need to Replace?
REPLACED - FIXED.
5. Z axis issues. The z stepper were clicking/jamming on upwards motion especially. Checked levels, adjusted angles, loosened top brackets and brass nuts, filed out top bracket holes and lubricated to limited success. Cranked the potentiometer on the z stepper and it's working with everything loosened, but worried I might cause issues long term. Replace lead screws and rods?
The rest I worked out but some of these stumped me. Have not done firmware stuff before so a little lost with that but assuming that may be the only way to resolve some of these issues.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Mick