Couple of issues I am having and honestly.....
I'm having failure more consistent than success with my printer. As I'm writing this I'm halfway through a large print (@ 25hrs mark) and my e3d v6 hotend has stopped extruding, again. I quickly was able to use the "Change Filament" command and pull back the cold filament, cut back the damaged area, then reinsert. It currently is extruding however I've missed what looks to be 2 layers?
Just yesterday the print failed on a different model where halfway into the print it quit moving completely and just melted a hole into the model. (This happened overnight for who knows how long). Last week I had major stepping issues with different models failing at different times.
Lastly when a print does finally complete, the rubber grommets holding the lead screws prevent the extruder from triggering the end stop... How long it last before some fail safe kicks in I'm unaware of but it surely is more than a couple of seconds as that is how long it took for me to realize what was happening.
After speaking with support, I removed a faulty driver and hooked up the fan to the 12v power. That seemed to have fixed the issue for shorter prints (12hrs) but as I am finding to be the case with this printer is that it will fail again once I'm deep into another print.
So, I now have a brand new printer that cost quite a bit of money with the reliability of an "E-bay clone" that only has one (possibly good) working driver, an extremely loud fan, and not to mention that the poly-carbonate bed itself has small areas of warpage.
The models I'm printing aren't even in high detail or needing of constant retraction. I've tried two different brands of filament consisting of 5 different spools. I'm using simplify 3d with the settings that Gcreate supplied, only tailoring them to my model needs.
If anyone can help to point in the right direction on what steps are next, I would greatly appreciate it.
I'm having failure more consistent than success with my printer. As I'm writing this I'm halfway through a large print (@ 25hrs mark) and my e3d v6 hotend has stopped extruding, again. I quickly was able to use the "Change Filament" command and pull back the cold filament, cut back the damaged area, then reinsert. It currently is extruding however I've missed what looks to be 2 layers?
Just yesterday the print failed on a different model where halfway into the print it quit moving completely and just melted a hole into the model. (This happened overnight for who knows how long). Last week I had major stepping issues with different models failing at different times.
Lastly when a print does finally complete, the rubber grommets holding the lead screws prevent the extruder from triggering the end stop... How long it last before some fail safe kicks in I'm unaware of but it surely is more than a couple of seconds as that is how long it took for me to realize what was happening.
After speaking with support, I removed a faulty driver and hooked up the fan to the 12v power. That seemed to have fixed the issue for shorter prints (12hrs) but as I am finding to be the case with this printer is that it will fail again once I'm deep into another print.
So, I now have a brand new printer that cost quite a bit of money with the reliability of an "E-bay clone" that only has one (possibly good) working driver, an extremely loud fan, and not to mention that the poly-carbonate bed itself has small areas of warpage.
The models I'm printing aren't even in high detail or needing of constant retraction. I've tried two different brands of filament consisting of 5 different spools. I'm using simplify 3d with the settings that Gcreate supplied, only tailoring them to my model needs.
If anyone can help to point in the right direction on what steps are next, I would greatly appreciate it.