It is time for steps calibrations, belt tightening, PID tuning, delta math parameter adjustment and then I may be able to do the initial calibration prints…again…with a new controller board this time. I may need to remove one extruder motor plug and redo it though.
I just did a Bowden conversion with new stepper, when I ran it, it was skipping steps, so I swapped the inner wires, it than ran backwards so I swapped the outer wires. It now works as intended. I’m learning?
@DayRider76 you only undid the wire swap by swapping the outer wires too. You probably had a loose connection or the current going to the motor was not high enough. Do not have the current too high though because it is better to skip steps than break a quick fit connector or something.
The belts are tightened to an acceptable pitch. I am doing PID testing for the nozzle now. I need to adjust my Z height again due to how I adjusted the belt tightness.
Up next is trim pot adjustments and maybe loosening up my carriages slightly.
For whatever reason my PID settings for my hotend are not working well enough for me. Of course then I am not sure if I selected the right thermistor. It has blue coated leads and a black glass bead.
I can not get my hotend up to temp with the fan on 100%. It must be cooling the thermistor wires and therefore cooling the thermistor. Else than that, there is a section about a 1/4" on the other side of the effector from the fan that air could get through. I will now try the software based PWM at 50% for a PID tuning run and see if it will get the hotend to temp with the resulting PID values. I could not get hardware PWM to work. It was all or nothing. I did not see a trim pot for the fan, so that is not surprising.
I think that works well enough for me.missing/deleted image from Google+
I had a thermal runaway error. I think it was the heated bed thermistor cable crimp job. I will have to wait two days or more to find out.