My CTC Dual printer had been working fabulously up until today.

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My CTC Dual printer had been working fabulously up until today. Today it refuses to do anything other than home the axes, then move the head to its corner to heat everything before crapping out and rebooting itself. I have reason to believe the MoBo is about to die a horrid death, or has died and this is just it’s corpse refusing to actually die. Questions:

  1. Has this happened to anyone else and did you fix it and if you did, how?
  2. If the opinion is that I need to replace the board, where did you go for replacements and where did you get the firmware? I can’t seem to raise the one tech support person who I exchanged emails with in December (or anyone else for that matter). Do you have a PoC?
  3. If you decided to go custom, what did you do? The unit itself is pretty solid and I am inclined to Smoothieboard it so long as I can still use the LCD and 4 buttons that are on there.

Any help would be appreciated. I am going to build another printer just in case…

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The hit ends heat fine since I can load and unload filament. And it homes but then moves and stops before the heating begins. Still thenk the hot ends are dead? Thise are easy to replace.

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No, sorry. I stopped dead because I had a lot of projects that needed attention (I’m not one to do one thing at a time). However, I do know the printer’s preheat utility works. I also tried running the on board print bed level routine and it crashed too. As soon as it moves in X and Y from home before any heating takes place, it crashes.

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Anything like that means taking it apart. I had hoped CTC was working Sunday. Alas, no, nor did I think they would…only hoped. Lately they haven’t been responding so if it comes to it, I will swap out the supply. That sounds like a good culprit since the symptoms are consistent with an overloading, shorting, or failing supply.

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So your suggestion will be my first target. Thanks @Nathan_Walkner ​