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A5 doesn't start printing, seems to freeze on start
Badger1875
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Hi folks,
first of all a Happy New Year 2019 to you all!
Second, I'm new here and want to introduce myself real quick:
I live in Southern Germany, nearby Ulm, I'm 58 and new in 3D-Printing. The reason I bought a 3D-Printer is, every now and then I'm constructing different devices and machines for toolmaking, grinding, milling, lathwork and so on. Often I have to try things, and the 3D-printing is a great help and it could save me a lot of time.
And finally third:
Well, I got me a JGAurora A5 and started, at least I tried to, printing.
The first time I turned it on, I was able to do homing in all axes, complete or 1 by 1, The bed and the extruder heated up, but starting a print is quite difficult:
I turn on the printer, do a homing in all axes, plug in the USB-Stick and select the g-code. after the selection, the screen changes and the temperature off bed and extruder are shown as 0/60 and 0/200. If i leave the printer on it's own, it will stay for days like this. After turning it off and on several times, every time I give the printer a little time to react, it catches up and the printing will start.
How do I solve this problem? I read about flashing firmware would be a deal, but I don't know what version is running on my printer, how do I find out? Should I flash the LCD firmware too?
The printing itself looks fairly well, the layers stay good together, the noise of the printer is very calm and the extrusion works, eye approved, also as it should.
Only the accuracy is a little off. But this will be solved later.
My first printing was not the classic cat, it was the 20 mm test cube. In X I measure 20,37 mm, in Y it is 20,19 mm and in Z it's 20,31 mm.
Checking the web for calibration gave me a few tips and videos showing hot to, but I always end up that I don't know, how many steps my printer does for 1 mm...
Checking the web for calibration gave me a few tips and videos showing hot to, but I always end up that I don't know, how many steps my printer does for 1 mm...
From where do I get this information? Is there a possibility to get the version number of mainboard and LCD?
The warranty card says it's tested somewhen in 09/ 2017 (!)
Does it make sense to flash all firmware before I start doing anything else? What is the actual version number for the JGAurora A5 right now?
Greetings
Freddie
Comments
I do recommend flashing the firmware both for the LCD and the mainboard. Can you please post a few photos of your printer? From photos I can tell you which "version" it is:
- Is the bed top glass glued on, or is it held down with clips?
- are the x-axis components all metal, or are they plastic?
- the wires for the heated bed, are there 4 wires or 6?
There is no official version history, I have documented the changes I have heard about over time on the wiki here.
To check the LCD firmware version there is an option in the menu.
The main motherboard firmware version can be displayed by connecting to the the printer in pronterface.
Kind regards - and a happy new year!
Sam
I have 06092018 and the holders of the x axis are plastic. So it is some break time when they mix it and probably future is probably plastic unfortunately.
Yes, it can be so! Your metal are more friendly to service when needed to replace these shity bearings...
brgds
Marek
For me, there was a problem that I leveled 0,18 and my slicers Z0 was on this 0,18.
The first layer in the slicer started at about 0,18 and all together it was 0,36mm on the machine. Took me a wile till I knew whats going on. So I set the Z.Offset in the slicer to Z -0,18 after that all was perfect.
Maybe it helps.
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