Wow, what an experience!
Received my MK4S kit on August 7. I spent a total of 12 slow, careful hours over about 6 days building it following the instructions on prusa3d.com and the downloaded PDF. Then at the Moment of Truth I turned her on . . . And everything worked ! The newly christened Prue went through her self-tests and calibrations, I loaded some filament from my old Folgertech I3, and she printed a flawless 3DBenchy in a little over an hour.
My only problemo was that she wouldn't talk to the wifi board. I removed the wifi cover and re-seated the board, and when I turned the printer back on she immediately saw the board and flashed some firmware to it. I then very carefully replaced the wifi cover ( necessary to keep the Y cable properly protected ) and was able to connect to my local network. Phew!
Great job on the directions. I used malted milk balls rather than gummy bears for rewards tho.
Right Benchy is from my old Folgertech I3, left Benchy is from the new Prusa MK4S
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Great job on the directions. I used malted milk balls rather than gummy bears for rewards tho.
Then you obviously put it together wrong. Completely disassemble your printer and put it together again using the proper Prusa supplied gummy bears.
j/k Congrats on your new printer and welcome to the Prusa community. 😀
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RE: Wow, what an experience! : Display Glitch Trouble
Okay, I had the Display Glitch trouble as mentioned elsewhere. Fearing perhaps power supply troubles I moved Prue ( a kit-built MK4S only a few weeks old ) to my workbench, prepatory to tearing into her and taking readings with multimeter and perhaps O-scope. But I couldn't reproduce the problemo there. The post I referenced hints that the trouble is probably RF interference between power cord and display cable. According to that post, having the printer on a metal table may make it worse. My workbench is wood, but the printer is supposed to live on an Ikea table which may or may not have a metal core under composite. I did change the Refresh Rate to slow ( System->Hardware->Refresh Rate). I reckon if the problem recurs in her home I can raise her up on a plywood stand. FWIW I am on firmware 6.2.4+8909, bootloader 2.4.1 .