Delta printer stopping shortly after print start
Hi,
I have a 3d printer that i made with parts from ebay, 310mm bed, arduino mega and RAMPS 1.4 with DRV8825 stepper drivers, 12V 360W power supply. I run repetier firmware with repetier-host.
It's been printing fine for about 2 years. I solved everything that came up, to the point that i could just leave it printing and go and do my other things.
Recently, it started randomly to have a problem, when i was starting a print, after about 15-20 seconds, it would just stop printing without any error. The extruder and bed would get set to 0 degrees and the steppers would stop, almost seemed like somebody pressed the reset button.
Now it's doing it more often. Occasionally it will finish even a 2h print, if it gets past the first 30 seconds without stopping. I don't know what i would need to change. Please give me an idea.
I'm printing in PLA extruder 210 and bed 60.
PS: I thought it would be something set wrong in repetier-host (no error appears in log file). So i fired up Simplify 3D, and looking at the communication windows, when the problem occurs, it would say RECEIVED: wait. And this message would appear once every second until i exit the program.
Maybe something is fried on the RAMPS board? I have the bed wired through the board, maybe i should go with a relay instead in the future.
Thank you,
Cristian
I have a 3d printer that i made with parts from ebay, 310mm bed, arduino mega and RAMPS 1.4 with DRV8825 stepper drivers, 12V 360W power supply. I run repetier firmware with repetier-host.
It's been printing fine for about 2 years. I solved everything that came up, to the point that i could just leave it printing and go and do my other things.
Recently, it started randomly to have a problem, when i was starting a print, after about 15-20 seconds, it would just stop printing without any error. The extruder and bed would get set to 0 degrees and the steppers would stop, almost seemed like somebody pressed the reset button.
Now it's doing it more often. Occasionally it will finish even a 2h print, if it gets past the first 30 seconds without stopping. I don't know what i would need to change. Please give me an idea.
I'm printing in PLA extruder 210 and bed 60.
PS: I thought it would be something set wrong in repetier-host (no error appears in log file). So i fired up Simplify 3D, and looking at the communication windows, when the problem occurs, it would say RECEIVED: wait. And this message would appear once every second until i exit the program.
Maybe something is fried on the RAMPS board? I have the bed wired through the board, maybe i should go with a relay instead in the future.
Thank you,
Cristian
Comments
I replaced the PSU, then RAMPS 1.4 and now the arduino mega... and it's the same. Silly bug.