Techical Questions and Troubleshooting Thread

Great idea @bolsoncerrado. I've never done one before but will have a bash.

Hi Guys: has anyone spilled resin on the monitor.. What could I use to remove the resin without damaging the monitor?

I used a cutter knife blade to carefully peel it from the monitor...

Hey guys

So for some reason CW doesn't move my build plate up and down anymore. Just nothing happens when I try to manually control it.
The screen still connects fine and my computer still picks up the arduino, but no movement from the motors.

I redid the profile with the Gcode just in case, reloaded the arduino drivers and nothing happens.

Anyone else have this problem?

Best

J

Did you try a different computer? different USB cable? different USB port?

Yep. All of the above.

Yikes! Perhaps a problem with the mosfet? Did you check wiring inside the printer?

@Jao,
I ran into something similar when I was trying to setup my endstop. I accidentally bumped my Z- Stepper cable knocking it loose. When I realized what I did, I plugged it back in. Unfortunately I was not paying attention amd did so while everything was still powered on. I FRIED MY STEPPER CONTROLLER!! (Note to noobs like me.. do NOT remove or plug in stepper motor cables while power is applied. It does evil things)
I didn't realize I had fried the controller. My symptoms were the same as what you described. All worked but the Z lift. I replaced the stepper controller on the arduino and all started to work again!!

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Hi AngryPanda

Which one is the z-Stepper cable and what does the stepper controller look like? Is it a hard thing to find and replace?

How could I test if this is indeed the problem?

I wish that I could get some customer support from OWL.

I finally figured out a way to print large objects utilizing the whole build platform using free software. I would love to share my findings with the community but
I need to get the big red paperweight working again first.

Best

J

hi Joe

which software ??