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by jferguson
Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Extruder motor stops responding/moving
Replies: 12
Views: 75963

Re: Extruder motor stops responding/moving

I print only esun petg. 235 for the hot end and 70 for the bed. I have a remote shop about 2 miles for our apartment and for the last 5 years, until the intermittent stops started to happen, I'd run the printer from home via VNC and Octoprint with camera. I design at home because it's more comfortab...
by jferguson
Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:17 am
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Extruder motor stops responding/moving
Replies: 12
Views: 75963

Re: Extruder motor stops responding/moving

I just bought the thermistor cable. I had to remove the old one from the very nice loom and get the new one in and get the loom closed up again, which all was a bit twitchy. If I ever make one of these. I'll use wire with more strands then MakerGear did - less likely to harden up with flexing. Excep...
by jferguson
Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:02 am
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Extruder motor stops responding/moving
Replies: 12
Views: 75963

Re: Extruder motor stops responding/moving

I just bought the thermistor cable. I had to remove the old one from the very nice loom and get the new one in and get the loom closed up again, which all was a bit twitchy. If I ever make one of these. I'll use wire with more stands then MakerGear did - less likely to harden up with flexing. Except...
by jferguson
Sat Nov 25, 2023 8:52 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Extruder motor stops responding/moving
Replies: 12
Views: 75963

Re: Extruder motor stops responding/moving

If it's in the cable chaging the hot end won't have any effect. How do I know? I did it. I don't know where the break in the cable is. I do have a TBR, but it's frequency is too low to measure a cable this short. In one of the last shutdowns before I inally realized what the problem actuaolly was, t...
by jferguson
Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:10 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Extruder motor stops responding/moving
Replies: 12
Views: 75963

Re: Extruder motor stops responding/moving

Turned out not to be hot section, but extruder thermistor cable- the one that runs from the housing on the side of the extruder stepper to T0. The copper strands must have suffered work-hardening from all the flexing. They must have eventually parted but were touching enough to handle the termistor ...
by jferguson
Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:44 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Extruder motor stops responding/moving
Replies: 12
Views: 75963

Re: Extruder motor stops responding/moving

Never mind.
problem was a hot section thermister which went wonky about ten minutes into a print - it varied. I replaced the V4 hot section with a spare and now all is well.

Sorry,

john ferguson
st petersburg. fl
by jferguson
Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:57 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: Extruder motor stops responding/moving
Replies: 12
Views: 75963

Re: Extruder motor stops responding/moving

vprints, I hope you got this fixed. I'm having a terrible time with a number of failures which occur in what would have been mid-print. Sometimes the head keeps moving but the extruder stops extruding, sometimes the whole thing stops. Octoprint shows nothing but continuing temperature reports which ...
by jferguson
Sun Aug 06, 2023 2:34 am
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: cannot download "H" firmware from MakerGear.com ??
Replies: 2
Views: 35453

Re: cannot download "H" firmware from MakerGear.com ??

the problem with download from makergear.com was ubuntu chrome. ubuntu firefox balked at download suggesting that there was something wrong with file, but let me download it anyway which worked fine.
by jferguson
Tue Aug 01, 2023 11:49 am
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: cannot download "H" firmware from MakerGear.com ??
Replies: 2
Views: 35453

Re: cannot download "H" firmware from MakerGear.com ??

ne.ver mind. it took me a while to realize i need to just load the marlin version I have for the G
by jferguson
Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:56 pm
Forum: Tech Support
Topic: cannot download "H" firmware from MakerGear.com ??
Replies: 2
Views: 35453

cannot download "H" firmware from MakerGear.com ??

Hi,
Download site doesn't download. What should I try?