PaulK
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Well, manually pushing the axis doesn't power up the board like it does on my other printer 🙂
Pushing and listening very carefully it seems to click once per revolution of the Y axis pulleys. It is really hard to tell exactly which one. There is hysteresis when you reverse direction. The belts looks lined up well but visibility isn't the greatest there; I'll look some more and make sure all the set screws are actually tight, etc.
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The Owens-Corning datasheet says “>0.4 mm”
Paul (in Ottawa!)
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To help clarify what is going on, a video (this is my video):
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My new S5 has developed a clicking sound (it didn't have it originally) during moves in the Y-axis. I has less then 100 hours of printing on it. It is fairly loud, looks to always occur in the same spot, and only in the Y but in either direction. It's hard to verify if it happens in more the one spot on the Y (is there a way to command moves for this printer?) Staring down belts and rods they all look to be moving smoothly and cleanly. There is no evidence of print quality loss that I can spot. But.... it can't be good.
Ideas?
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New S5 owner here, and I am interested in reducing print time for some larger parts where I don't care abut surface quality so much, so looking at the 0.8 vores
Printing the attached STL in default orientation in using Cura 4 (i.e. kind of on its back ... not necessarily optimal, but I'm exploring what happens X).
All materials Ultimaker, profiles out of the box, taking all the defaults expect designating extruder 2 as the support extruder.
AA 0.4/PLA BB 0.4/PVA Fast profile
1 day 6 hours
111 g PVA
189 g PLA
AA 0.8/PLA BB 0.8/PVA Fast Profile
15 hours 31 minutes
59 g PVA
230 g PLA
I can see why the PLA quantity goes up: 2 shells @ 0.8 is more filament then 3 shells @ 0.4
But why does the PVA go down so much? PVA is damn expensive, and saving like 50g on a part can add up quick.
Clicking during Y-Axis moves on S5
in UltiMaker 3D printers
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Solved. Re-aligned of the pulleys and it went away. Very quiet again 🙂 Common theory is that the belt can catch a little on the sides if it is misaligned; it is really hard to observe this, though, so hard to tell.
I'd also like to say that Ultimaker White PLA isn't very white.