When can we realistically expect more FW addressing these teething pains?
As the title says, when? This being my first Prusa, I am not familiar with the company's approach to solving these. At any rate and considering the machine has been out for sale now almost half a year, I find the FW releases very slow.
Below is a quick list of the issues I encountered with this machine.
When going through the list please note that most of these are notorious with advanced filaments and not so much with PLA or PETG)
Below are the issues I think should be addressed FAST. These are not in any particular order.
- Nozzle cleaning
- Door sensors resetting the machine.
- Bed Levelling/probing issue with anything other than PLA and PETG (this happens before printing)
- A better homing sequence (less banging than what currently is considering as acceptable, which is approx 6 to 9 bounces)
- Better camera integration
- Z aligment/levelling, which seems to get off after a while (did not happen in my 2nd CORE one yet, but It did in my first)
- Silencing the motors via FW (as done with the XL)
- Improving VFA
RE: When can we realistically expect more FW addressing these teething pains?
They still are in rush to produce enough printers to dispatch them.
I think that as soon they have caught up they will have more time to spend on FW correction.
RE: When can we realistically expect more FW addressing these teething pains?
I believe the firmware team has nothing to do with shipping or creating printers. Completely different skill set.
2 sounds more like a hardware problem.
5 unlikely
7 it is in the firmware, just hidden as it is not working to their liking yet.
They still are in rush to produce enough printers to dispatch them.
I think that as soon they have caught up they will have more time to spend on FW correction.
RE: When can we realistically expect more FW addressing these teething pains?
When it's ready. Not being glib - it xan take time to get hardware to consistently repro only after which mitigation solutions can be tried. It sucks if you're waiting.
4 improved a lot for me after input shaper calibration (need accelerometer) and verifying the gantry is square and the belts in spec. They stretched a bit the first few days (kit).
6 may be unintentionally introduced if you do anything which might put pressure on the bed; cleaning, pulling gunk off, whatever. Tedo z-axis calibration.
RE: When can we realistically expect more FW addressing these teething pains?
I don't think they can do much better for 3, if the retraction doesn't help then installing a brush and giving it a vigorous scrub before probing might tbe the only solution.
5. Given their list of features planned on the camera page I actually would expect what could be defined as better integration (I see no reason why LAN live view of a camera couldn't be put into a Prusalink iframe for example).
RE: When can we realistically expect more FW addressing these teething pains?
- Nozzle cleaning: This is currently failing for a lot of people, but not due to a dirty nozzle. The nozzle can be completely clean, and the machine will still fail it. This seems common when using engineering filaments that print above 250c. During my chats with support (hours and hours) they confirmed that the issue seems to be with high temp and the load cell reading. This to me screams BETA software so I am hopeful that it can be addressed asap.
RE: When can we realistically expect more FW addressing these teething pains?
Oh ok - I haven't seen a nozzle cleaning failure I couldn't blame on a tiny piece of filament not sticking to the plate during the repeated touches (with PC, etc). I didn't know there was an additional issue.