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Aravon
(@aravon)
Estimable Member
More options when a crash is detected ?

Yesterday when i was printing a Darth Vader pen cup, the extruder crash due to strangled filaments in the spool (Yes, I was too lazy to do the rewinding of filament before hand, my fault).

MK3's crash detection worked, it tried to resume the printing after a crash, but as you can imagine, the extruder couldn't move to the correct position as it was restrained by the strangled filament. So the result was a mess of spaghetti beside the half printed Darth Vader. 🙁 When I checked the fail statistic, it recorded more than 30 times crashes. 😯

So I think if there was a alarm and pause function when a crash was detected, I could stop the print earlier to save filament or even to save the print.

Crash detection is a cool function, it saved my previous prints more than once. But I think it can be better.

Perhaps a firmware update letting user choose between automatic resume and alarm-pause is a possible solution.

Posted : 30/01/2018 7:49 am
Tomaz
(@tomaz)
Eminent Member
Re: More options when a crash is detected ?

Agree on that. If it crash and fails to start again three times it should pause. Where is the point of crashing all night 🙄

Posted : 30/01/2018 8:41 pm
billw
(@billw)
Active Member
Re: More options when a crash is detected ?


Yesterday when i was printing a Darth Vader pen cup, the extruder crash due to strangled filaments in the spool (Yes, I was too lazy to do the rewinding of filament before hand, my fault).

MK3's crash detection worked, it tried to resume the printing after a crash, but as you can imagine, the extruder couldn't move to the correct position as it was restrained by the strangled filament. So the result was a mess of spaghetti beside the half printed Darth Vader. 🙁 When I checked the fail statistic, it recorded more than 30 times crashes. 😯

So I think if there was a alarm and pause function when a crash was detected, I could stop the print earlier to save filament or even to save the print.

Crash detection is a cool function, it saved my previous prints more than once. But I think it can be better.

Perhaps a firmware update letting user choose between automatic resume and alarm-pause is a possible solution.

The quickest way to get this issue evaluated by the developers is to post an item here: https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware/issues

Posted : 30/01/2018 11:57 pm
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