baron
Posts: 9
Joined: Fri May 09, 2014 8:07 am

Can't set Filament Fan speed Replicator2

Hi!

I'm new to S3D and trying to calibrate it for my printer. Except some problems getting the printing profile calibrated (probably due to inexperience) I'm having problems with the fan settings for the Filament Fan.

Problem: I can't use any other setting than ON during whole print or of during whole print.
Default settings which lists "layer 1 - 0%" followed by "layer 1 - 100%" results in no fan during the whole print
Setting it to "layer 1 - 0%" followed by "layer2 - 100%" (which logically should be more right than the default?) gives same result
Setting it to "layer 1- 100%" results in 100% fan during whole print, even during the heat up process.

Everything works as expected with MakerWare and ReplicatorG.
I'm also able to control the fan from Control Panel in S3D, even though it seems to just handle 0% and 100%, nothing in between. But that could be due to the characteristics of the fan, don't know if it's able to do anything other than on/off.

If it matters, I'm running sailfish firmware
baron
Posts: 9
Joined: Fri May 09, 2014 8:07 am

Re: Can't set Filament Fan speed Replicator2

Managed to get it working by just setting fanspeed of 100% on layer2 and no other setting.

Still curious over why setting 0% on first layer and setting 100% on second layer wont produce the same result. and also curious about why the standard profile for replicator sets BOTH 0% and 100% for layer1. Bug?
Umpa
Posts: 89
Joined: Wed May 07, 2014 2:10 pm

Re: Can't set Filament Fan speed Replicator2

I use a wanhao which uses the mighty board, and can tell you that there is no fan speed for me. It's either on or off. I have yet to try to program the fan so I can turn it on and off multiple times during the print.

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