Help with Smoothieware Delta setup

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Hello everyone, I just received my smoothieboard and it looks promising so far. I am trying to setup my Delta printer with the board, it has XYZ endstops on top and the z_probe with the effector. I have couple of questions regarding Smoothieware.

  1. I have read that I have to put firmware.bin and config.txt in root of the SD and after power off/on, the firmware.bin should turn to firmware.cur. That never happens, however, whatever change I make in config.txt, it reflects on the functioning of the printer. Meaning, for example, if I change the feedrate, I can see the difference in speed when I home or manually jog. Is that normal, I mean it working and yet not changing to .cur?

  2. I have set the gamma_max to 320.5 (that is the height from nozzle to bed while homed). However when I manually move the z axis all the way down to the bed, I get -320.5 instead of 0. What I have noticed is that when I manually jog Z axis down/up 100mm, it moves 50 mm. Any solution?

Thanks!

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Hi,
The “firmware” file in my smoothie has to be named Just “firmware” without “.bin” the board already know what is the extention
same apply to the config file, and DO NOT modify the file with Notepad++!!!
Just use the standard Notepad from windows.
turn on the board and if necessary press the “reset” button on the board, the config file has nothing to do with the “config.cur”
Some times the microSd could be problematic, so use a good one please, and turn off smoothieboard before insert the sd card!!
The solution of the 50mm instead of the 100 mm could be that the “step x mm” of your config are wrong, so the axis travel just half of the way
Regards

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Hello.

What board type do you have exactly and where did you get it from ? It shouldn’t have the problems you describe.

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If is a “clone” as the MAKERBASE chinese one, could be that the steppers are setup for 1/32 microstep instead of 1/16