Stops printing after time
Wondering what people think might be the problem here.
I have only had the Prusa i3 Mk3 for a week, and its printing amazing prints.
Some prints have failed inconsistently with the printer not extruding material. The LCD says it finished the print. Attached is the castle straight from the supplied card, as you can see the towers did not print, time was 11hr 46min.
I had other prints fail at various levels so I thought it was a clogged nozzle, I have cleaned it via the Atomic Method.
The filament is original Prusa grey, and the printer is stock with no modifications.
John || MK3, MMU2, Creality CR-10S
Re: Stops printing after time
Sounds a lot like a gcode file that is truncated. Try downloading the latest test print Gcode files and replacing the ones on the card.
On the other hand the firmware is supposed to detect that error so that may not be the issue.
What do the power panic and filament runout error counters say in the firmware? Have you had any errors detected that perhaps you didn't see?
Bryan
Re: Stops printing after time
Might also be a bad SD card. You might try using a different card and see if the errors persist.
Re: Stops printing after time
Try opening the gcode on slic3r.
If the towers are missing it's something before the printer.
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Re: Stops printing after time
Opened the gcode file and the towers at the top are there.
SD card has printed other prints fine, I will try a new card and see.
I would imagine the gcode files are up to date as the printer was received recently.
Have others had problems with the recent gcode files supplied?
Failure Stats:
Power: 0
Crash: 4
Filament: 2
I believe this was for a different print as I was trying a different filament at the time and having difficulty with it.
That filament need to be run hotter and was not extruding correctly.
Not sure what you mean by "Have you had any errors detected that perhaps you didn't see?" I haven't seen any, lol.
John || MK3, MMU2, Creality CR-10S
Re: Stops printing after time
I was talking about the failure stats. Thinking perhaps there was a failure recorded in the firmware stats that you were not aware of. Perhaps one of the filament failures was a false filament stall detection. I've read somewhere that the firmware won't recover from a filament stall/clog detect event.
Also that is one of the areas of firmware development, so earlier firmware might give you more trouble with filament sensing. Latest firmware has some tweaks for that.
Bryan
Re: Stops printing after time
Another thing to try is hook the printer up to a laptop while printing. Then you can watch the print from pronterface or some other printer control software. Even when printing from SD you might get more info about errors in the software than you do from the LCD screen.
Bryan