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| | ===21/4/2011 Operator: Glen=== |
| | I've added a key to the Makerbot. The key is to be used to turn the Makerbot on and off, the switch on the motherboard no longer works. |
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| ===20/4/2011 Operator: Kal=== | | ===20/4/2011 Operator: Kal=== |
| Makerbot is working. I played around with making a new Skienforge profile and called it "ABS" but its by no means perfect | | Makerbot is working. I played around with making a new Skienforge profile and called it "ABS" but its by no means perfect |
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| ===6/4/2011 Operator: Unknown=== | | ===6/4/2011 Operator: Unknown=== |
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| 19:30 <@solexious> ?makerbot has been left on, stepper motors were red hot | | The Makerbot was left on over night with the stepper motor set to lock, this caused them to over heat as locking a stepper motor requires more current then it takes to make them move. |
| 19:32 < artag> if the stepper motors get red hot through bing left on, I would suggest
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| 19:34 <@JamesHarrison> that does seem a tad crazy
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| 19:36 <@solexious> ?makerbot faulty
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| 19:40 < Underhand> well that sounds more like a design fault rather than a unit fault
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| 19:40 < Underhand> istr early (BBC Micro era) plotters suffering from similar issues
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| 19:41 < artag> might be, but still requires fixing. The makerbot appears to suffer a
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| number of problems of this sort.
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| 19:42 < artag> it's not really a product, more of a starter-project that needs
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| finishing. imho.
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| 19:42 < Underhand> fixing presumably means redesigning the makerbot, right?
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| 19:44 < artag> to be thorough, maybe. But probably incrementally. FOr instance, in this
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| case, the stepper motors might be set to a lower current (or turned off
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| completely) after a period of inaction. It's open source software and
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| hardware. These things can & should be done.
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| 19:47 < Fib> Last time I used the software, if you use the control panel to make Z+ Z-
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| etc adjustments it leaves the steppers on unless you press the 'steppers
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| In an effort to provide some useful information about the status of the makerbot, I've posted a couple of fragments from IRC here. Log entries by the operators would be far more useful, though, so please replace or amend these pastes if you have better information --[[User:Artag|Artag]] 19:11, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ===5/4/2011 Operator: Unknown=== | | ===5/4/2011 Operator: Unknown=== |
