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I bought the wrong stepper motor, will it still work? (UM2)
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· I bought the wrong stepper motor, will it still work? (UM2)
I can answer my own question now.
the answer is sort of.
the motor will operate and you can print stuff. I had to leave the cover off, which leads me to think it may get hotter than normal, but the temps seem ok compared to the x axis motor.
also this motor only just clears the build platform.
but the biggest problem what that i kept getting axis slip. It wasn't slipping on the pulleys, i tightened them up a lot. but it would become misaligned on the y axis, usually later on in the print.
I tried lowering the current in the options and this seems to have cured it. So i conclude the bigger motor was causing the stepper driver to overheat and cut out periodically. I will be putting a heatsink on it later and putting the current back up, so we'll see how this helps.
I'm still gonna get the correct motor for it as soon as poss.
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I can answer my own question now.
the answer is sort of.
the motor will operate and you can print stuff. I had to leave the cover off, which leads me to think it may get hotter than normal, but the temps seem ok compared to the x axis motor.
also this motor only just clears the build platform.
but the biggest problem what that i kept getting axis slip. It wasn't slipping on the pulleys, i tightened them up a lot. but it would become misaligned on the y axis, usually later on in the print.
I tried lowering the current in the options and this seems to have cured it. So i conclude the bigger motor was causing the stepper driver to overheat and cut out periodically. I will be putting a heatsink on it later and putting the current back up, so we'll see how this helps.
I'm still gonna get the correct motor for it as soon as poss.
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