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Bad NFC tags in Spools ULTM S5 Pro material Station
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· Bad NFC tags in Spools ULTM S5 Pro material Station
I believe the easiest option would be to pull a known good tag from an older spool of the same material. This would save a lot of the hassle from needing to respool anything. The tag is essentially used to help identify the material to ensure that whatever print you send over from Cura has the correct configuration. using the old NFC tag shouldn't cause any issues.
While not related to this behavior, I'd also make sure that you are running 5.8.2 or newer, as it had a significant improvement on NFC registration in general.
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· Bad NFC tags in Spools ULTM S5 Pro material Station
@Priddy was faster than me 🙂, as that's exactly the suggestion I would have made.
But have in mind, that the NFC tag also shows the remaining amount of the filament on the spool. Using a tag of an empty spool might or will lead to the material being shown to be empty (this shuld be no issue IF the material change is controlled by the flow sensor).
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· Bad NFC tags in Spools ULTM S5 Pro material Station
Yeah, the visual indicator on the screen will probably show it as empty. But the machine won't actively try to swap it unless the end of material gets detected by the sensor.
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· Bad NFC tags in Spools ULTM S5 Pro material Station
I have the same issue. It is pretty frustrating that material station doesn't tell you that the material is loaded, but it doesn't recognize the material (just shows the Yellow Exclamation Point on the screen for the material you tried to load), unless I am missing something.
Luckily, I have a ton of old spools laying around, so I just swap out the NFC tag.
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I believe the easiest option would be to pull a known good tag from an older spool of the same material. This would save a lot of the hassle from needing to respool anything. The tag is essentially used to help identify the material to ensure that whatever print you send over from Cura has the correct configuration. using the old NFC tag shouldn't cause any issues.
While not related to this behavior, I'd also make sure that you are running 5.8.2 or newer, as it had a significant improvement on NFC registration in general.
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@Priddy was faster than me 🙂 , as that's exactly the suggestion I would have made.
But have in mind, that the NFC tag also shows the remaining amount of the filament on the spool. Using a tag of an empty spool might or will lead to the material being shown to be empty (this shuld be no issue IF the material change is controlled by the flow sensor).
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Yeah, the visual indicator on the screen will probably show it as empty. But the machine won't actively try to swap it unless the end of material gets detected by the sensor.
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I have the same issue. It is pretty frustrating that material station doesn't tell you that the material is loaded, but it doesn't recognize the material (just shows the Yellow Exclamation Point on the screen for the material you tried to load), unless I am missing something.
Luckily, I have a ton of old spools laying around, so I just swap out the NFC tag.
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