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Problem with hotend. #41

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roon4660 opened this issue Aug 26, 2019 · 11 comments
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Problem with hotend. #41

roon4660 opened this issue Aug 26, 2019 · 11 comments

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@roon4660
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I am in a quandary with my Ender 3 pro which I’ve had very good success with the past few months. I upgraded my hot end and it worked fine for about a day and then started to behave strangely. When I preheated the nozzle to 250 degrees C which it could always do very quickly I noticed that it was pooping out at 184 C and then will eventually go up to 195 and flutter down and up from there. I keep trying things like checking the thermistor and it’s easy to check the heater. Everything is plugged in all right. It was working now it’s not. Is it something to do with the computer program? I have version 1.1.6 Marlin firmware. I noticed I can set it to 190 C and it will go there and stay there with it’s up and down a few degrees. It just can’t get up to what I want.
Larry R.

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It's possible that it has a short. Have you checked the connection with a mutimeter?

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roon4660 commented Aug 26, 2019 via email

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Check for continuity on both ends of the wires and the voltage on the controller board versus the voltage going into the hotend.

I have a multimeter but what do I check? Thanks for your response. Larry On Monday, August 26, 2019, 04:18:40 p.m. GMT-4, Joshua Rising notifications@github.com wrote: It's possible that it has a short. Have you checked the connection with a mutimeter? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

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roon4660 commented Aug 26, 2019 via email

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JimPBarber commented Aug 26, 2019 via email

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roon4660 commented Aug 26, 2019 via email

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wanderling commented Aug 26, 2019

Attach an incandescent bulb rated for the voltage you are monitoring (ie: 12v bulb for 12v system. 24v bulb for 24v system. etc.) to the heater leads in parallel with the heater. If temps drop while the bulb stays lit, suspect heater. If bulb goes out AND temps drop, suspect control hardware (thermistor, connections, wires). If all of that looks fine, check the control board itself REAL carefully. Look for broken or dull solder connections, or overheating components. Good idea to reset the Ender 3 to factory defaults first.

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roon4660 commented Sep 4, 2019

I have my ender 3 pro connected to my macbook pro with Marlin 1.6.1 installed and my new usb cable and cannot seem to tether it even with printrun for mac installed. I would like to run the PID setup but my mac can't find the ender. Should I try octoprint? A slicer?

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roon4660 commented Sep 5, 2019

I made an error I have a Creality 1.1.6 board. I'm not sure what version of Marlin is installed. I don't know what it wants for a "port". I tried com2 and usb2 and variations, but have no results, just errors.

@roon4660
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I have the bootloader installed(flashed) in my ender 3 pro and I have the printer connected to my macbook pro.

Using Printrun for mac the nozzle temperature to 250 C and at about 190 C it failed. This is the error message

in Printrun.

Setting hotend temperature to 250.000000 degrees Celsius.

Error:Heating failed, Heating failed

Printer halted

please reset.

I don't even know if I should try to set the PID at 190 or what?

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Hi @roon4660, is this issue ongoing or can we close it out?

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