I had a successful first print and decided to try a relatively big and long 56 hour print. After about 36 hours in, it stopped in the middle of the night. The screen was on and usable, but the bed and nozzle went to 0 c and I couldn’t increase the temp. The enclosure and modules turned off (no fan, no lights).
When I rebooted it, everything came back on. I told it to go home and all the linear modules worked. The bed would heat. But, the nozzle would not go to temp and stays at 0 despite telling it to go to 200c.
Is this a bad hot end? Any ideas what happened? Are there videos on replacing the hot end (I have a spare). How often should I expect to replace hot ends and is it possible to recover a print when a failure like this occurs?
It is a bit tricky to run the job to its finish.
You have to delete the lines in the gcode which are finished right now, expect the start gcode,- this means you have to meassure the very correct height of your model, delete the lines after the start gcode.
The start gcode has to be modified, so that the print head could not crash into the model on the bed.
If you share your gcode and your current height, i could help you to adjust.
If you want to do so, please @xchrisd me so i get a email about
I’m having a problem with the thermistor falling out of its tube. This is on any of the heads I’ve used so far and the end result is overheating and clogging.
Support sent me this to try next. They think my calibration sensor is off. I guess I’m tired of gouging boards; is there a way to test it without running the nozzle into the board?
you could always remove the nozzle from the hotend i guess. but you will need to recalibrate when you thread it back in
did you ever show us your assembly photos?
not to sound like we think you are an amateur or something but honest to god it seems like 9/10 times its something installed wrong and was just working by chance.
regarding the prox sensor, touch the nozzle down on the build plate, loosen the screw for the prox, slip a credit card under it then tighten it back up.
It would be nice to see how your linear modules are mounted to the base and how the aluminum webbed platform is mounted to the heated bed for starters
its amazing how many people mess that up, but not really, the instruction manual had a bad illustration in it which they revised digitally but the print versions still have.
You know going back to your original comments about the long print failing partway thru, this seems to be a repeating trend the past few days.
i dont know the stats of the temps and so forth but out of curiousity id be interested to know how big the gcode file was and what version of firmware you have too
