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motley

Further to my last post, if I send the extruder up 10 units using the jog controller I note the following comms log: G91 G1 E-10.000 F240 G90 Received ok Received ok Received ok Which is I guess what you would expect, but even with the extruder temp stable there is no extruder movement, for simplici...

motley

Yes I made sure it was up to temp (190C for PLA), not sure what the tolerance is but it seems to keep it fairly close.

Should there be a comms error message if this is the reason for lack of movement, there seems to be a verbose reply from the firmware generally

Thanks

Chris

motley

I've got (almost) everything working ok now - tracked some of the problems to the poor USB ports on my laptop, using the desktop now... The final problem is the extruder motor is not running (doesn't run during a print or respond to the jog command). I have swapped the wiring about so I know the mot...

motley

Andrew, Thanks for the info and video link - I have had a play around and now have communications - not sure I fully understand it all yet but at least I have movement. It's an old machine which I never quite got working before time pressures forced me to delay the build. First the thermistor calibr...

motley

I have a Prusa Mendel type with a Duet 0.8.5 controller, using Pronterface I can run each axis without problem. The printer is connected to a Lenovo T510 running 64 bit Win7 Ult. Initially I could't get Simplify3D to connect, but a couple of posts on this forum led me to uncheck the option 'Wait for...

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