Matteo Gennari
Jun 4

Probe sudden death?

5 comments

Ok, maybe a little of drama in the title but, after a 50+ hours print and in total something like 3kgs of PLA printed, Z probe is failing.

As you can see in the pics, it works well when Y is in in the back and stops working past half of the travel.

Cable issue maybe? Need to replace the probe?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matteo Gennari
Jun 5

Agree. In the meantime I did some tests and the probe works only in I manually bend the cable near the probe. It's unacceptable that a non moving part fails so early, it must be of a really bad quality.

Now I have to remove sleeves, pass cable, etc... a PITA.

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daryl smith
Jun 11

i don't think they did enough testing on this door stop

 

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Matteo Gennari
Jun 11

Dunno, I seem to be the only (or first) one to have this issue, so maybe it's just bad luck.

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Makertech
Jun 11

@Matteo Gennari Happy to send another probe out to you not a problem. Make sure that the cables are fixed to the bracket with a cable tie with some slack to offer relief for the cables. Fixing the cables on too tight with out any slack will cause cables to fray.

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Matteo Gennari
Jun 11

@Makertech thanks for the kind offer, but I've already bought a couple of new ones and installed one.

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