Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Work in progress

I realized my Z axis end stop was not stopping the motors kept spinning even after they actuated the switch. Upon doing some tests I found the wires were not transferring the signal or getting power at all. I contacted the seller of the product who promptly sent me a new one.   Although it took 3 weeks to get here even through it was shipped first class which should have taken only 3 days. I now have that hooked up and working like it should.

I am now at the point where I should be able to stay printing. After all I have everything I need to do so. The other day when I turned everything on my server for the printer wasn't properly working. I reimaged the SD card but still haven't did the setup again. I was concerned about the Arduino and the Ramps 1.4 not working properly. I uploaded the test code and now the printer just moves a little bit, had a spike in power draw, and then stopped responding. That's where I am currently. I now have to take off the board and check to make sure there isn't something blocking the pin. Worst case scenario is having to buy a new set costing at least 50 dollars not to mention the possibility of it not arriving on time. 3d printers, especially self made models, are not very popular yet to be able to source parts locally