Constant SENT: M105

[Spencer]

Hey all, things are going good over here. Printing out some neat stuff! Another little thing popped up though..

I'm not sure if it has always been like this, but I keep getting this constant line of "SENT: M105" over and over, even if I'm not doing anything. The extruder and bed can be set to off and that "SENT:M105" keeps rolling through. Is this normal? Here's a pic

http://imgur.com/a26MLNP

Even when the printer is counting down to print it pops up!

http://imgur.com/Du2bUXl

[Jules]

That's a standard query for (i think it's temperature) that the machine keeps sending and awaiting the response, through the whole print. So you can just ignore it.

[Jules]

Yeah, it's extruder temp - list of G-Codes here:

http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code

[Spencer]

Okay thanks. Just making sure I didn't do anything funny

[willnewton]

That is just checking the temp. You can turn it off by clicking the Verbose checkbox.

Sometimes I leave Verbose on during startup and tuning, etc. Sometimes I turn it off to stop the scrolling, for example: if you want to have your board send you back some info, such as M119, which tells you if your endstops are triggered or you want to see an accurate print time for S3D, turn off verbose and when your print is done, it spits out the run time and you don't lose the time in a sea of M105's.

[Jules]

....you want to see an accurate print time for S3D, turn off verbose and when your print is done, it spits out the run time and you don't lose the time in a sea of M105's.

Did not know that!

[willnewton]

Me either until a few weeks ago. I just happened to have it off and checked the log. I was running a very long series of prints and with Verbose off, it neatly provided a list of true print run times.

S3D is notorious for being off in print time estimates and the LCD timer will run for as long as the printer is on once the print is complete.

So if your print wraps up at 3 in the morning, when you go to check in the morning you'll know exactly how long it actually took!