Completed my Axis build, other than all the "manufacturing & shipping oops" I had to deal with: LCD cable plug notches backwards, hot end cables too short, eccentric instead of fixed guide for Z-axis sent, power plug nut pretty much stripped the plastic power plug right away... everything but one thing seems to be working well. Er, also blue knob and/or screen seems to be locked up while printing my first print.
Main concern I have is that the Heated Bed can't seem to accept a setting above 45-degrees Celsius. I thought it was just Pronterface/printrun. The terminal session would say Setting Bed Temp to 60c ... but the status line on the left under the XYZ controls would say 45.00 degrees. It would hold steady at 45.00/45.00 as well. I can't see that I've done anything wrong, line 417 in Arduino IDE is "#define TEMP_SENSOR_BED 1" was already there and I didn't change it. Looking for "BED" in the IDE, I see this on line 461: "#define BED_MAXTEMP 55" - I'm not sure if that is degrees, or a percentage or a number out of 255 or what... but it isn't 45, so I don't think that is it either. Any ideas?
Benchy first print from SD-Card also said 45-degrees Celsius even. I can't get back to the info screen either. Benhcy has been printing for about 25-minutes so far (looking good), but turning the blue knob or pressing it does nothing. Just sitting on the "Info Screen up arrows", then Pause Print, then Stop Print, then Tune... but pressing or turning the blue knob does nothing. I disconnected my laptop before starting the print.
Benchy finished up, definite "waviness" on the cabin wall, assuming I should try to make things "tighter" but not sure how to do that and actually have them moveable. After the print was complete the knob control and screen became unlocked again.
Glad the build mostly worked. My first 3D printer build. We got a Prusa i3 MK3S as well a couple weeks ago, but that was pre-assembled, that's what printed the fan shroud.


Looks like the Kickstarted email pointing to the Tips & Tricks FAQ has a new Configfuration.h file... looking through that, line 461 changes:
#define BED_MAXTEMP 70
So, there we go. Mine was set to 55... assuming with that number that it is -10 for whatever is setable so, 45 before and with 70 it would be 60. Also changed the printhead from 250 to 270, again, so I bet I can set 260 now instead of 240... not that I have a bed hot enough to actually need to set that.
My Mean Well LRS-350-24 came today. Need to print a cover for the terminals (and the switch). I have metal couplers, reading the FAQ though, sounds like that might not make too much of a difference since I don't think I have Z wobble, I just have Y wobble or the bed/X wobble. I've greased on the rails that slide against the guides and it helped a little, but not completely. Will put the metal coupler on and again will re-adjust all my guides.
FAQ also addresses the TMC Error... but I've done all that, so they don't say how to tell WHICH TMC2022 driver is having an issue. I'll look at the output again in Prontoface and see if I can figure it out... maybe go ahead and finish the Dual Extruder... perhaps everyone who has had issues are using the older version of Makertech Cura files? Since I'm later in building, I am using the later ones (just checked) but they mention retraction length changes in there with the 2.0.1 version so maybe folks should investigate that. Okay, only have an hour to work on this, so off to it!
Hmmm. I used 5. XYZ, extruder 1 and extruder 2. Though I don’t have the dual extruded configured yet, so that might be the problem. That said, I don’t remember putting a number anywhere about the drivers, just changing the definition over and the inverting the directions from true to false and vice versa for the one. Did double check the Arduino setup yesterday... hmmm. Maybe I zapped the E2 driver... or forgot to put a jumper on all the UART pins... will double check tomorrow.
Thank you!
Here was my final first print.