Extruder stops mid-print
Hello.
So i occasionly need to print longer prints if it matters - beacuse lately with shorter prints there have been no issues.
Butm when starting the print (ASA) everything seems to be normal, but few hours into the print the extruder just stops extruding, but the printer goes on and prints "air" as everything is normal.
I opened carefully the idler (mid print) and discovered that the extruder wheel is not moving.
Stopped the print and tried to extrude some filament via control, setting the temperature and moving E - nothing. Then basically did the same from the filament menu "purge filament" - nothing.
Did a reset for the machine and tried manually again - extruder works which means no blockage and motor is OK ?!
So i started the print again and what do you know it got further into the print (more layers) but yet again it from one point stopped spitting filament and just moved like everything is fine. Not extruding again.
Now is this temperature related (i doubt as i've printed PC with no issues) or is my extruder motor slowly dying ?
Is there any settings i should double check ? I doubt in this one also as i do everything as usually.
RE: Extruder stops mid-print
This has happened to others as well. There are a few threads on the forum with the same issue. Supposedly there is a firmware release coming out that fixes this.
RE: Extruder stops mid-print
This is such a stupid problem as all SW/FW issues are i guess...
Updated firmware to 6.2.0-alpha2+8702 in hope that this maybe is fixed.
Made the print shorter (reduced instances in the print).
And still the issue continues 1 hour into print - nothing comes out of the extruder.
RE:
This still happens to me in 6.2.0 alpha 2. I can still recover with a power cycle, but I get a layer line/shift as a result.
It occurs about 1 hour or less into the print and sometimes multiple times per print. I have prusa connect turned off and only 2 files on the flash drive.