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TronXY X5SA PRO with CURA 4.8.0 stops printing after a minute and freezes
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· TronXY X5SA PRO with CURA 4.8.0 stops printing after a minute and freezes
Seems nobody reads this apart from myself.
So here is MY answer - the firmware of this printer is crap.
Tronxy has implemented a USB (and - at extra cost - even a WIFI) but becaus of too high a transmission rate you cannot control the printer by these means, only just by micro sd cards. And as we all know, these slots fail very soon.
I wanted to try the Toshiba FlashAir WIFI (W-03) card, but alas, they are no longer available. These would have been a very good viable solution - wireless data transfer to the printer, and then start the print manually. Would have been perfect. Just a dream which puffed into clouds...
So, is there a possibility to activate the USB port to accept a data transfer to the SD Card? Can this ARM32 processsor be made to do the trick?
VERY SMALL files (really SMALL ones) and only just a few layers can be printed directly from the computer, then the ARM32 gets overflowed and freezes. So, why not use the SD card as a data buffer? Other 3D printers are able to do this (eg. Flashforge, Dremel et al.). Somewhere in my old brain I think I have read that you can make this CPU to write its firmware/memory to the SD card - I am no software engineer, so I cannot follow this to any extent.
In the meantime I am going to use an adapter cable (Micro SD to normal SD card) because this is much less costly than a new motherboard, and readily available too.
The Tronxy engineers need a kick in the beehind to get their printers up to a useful standard. Mind you - hardware-like these 3D printers are getting better day by day. But unless they follow up with the firmware I would not advise anybody to buy one (with the exception - if you are able to swap the motherboard to something else and get it to run)
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Seems nobody reads this apart from myself.
So here is MY answer - the firmware of this printer is crap.
Tronxy has implemented a USB (and - at extra cost - even a WIFI) but becaus of too high a transmission rate you cannot control the printer by these means, only just by micro sd cards. And as we all know, these slots fail very soon.
I wanted to try the Toshiba FlashAir WIFI (W-03) card, but alas, they are no longer available. These would have been a very good viable solution - wireless data transfer to the printer, and then start the print manually. Would have been perfect. Just a dream which puffed into clouds...
So, is there a possibility to activate the USB port to accept a data transfer to the SD Card? Can this ARM32 processsor be made to do the trick?
VERY SMALL files (really SMALL ones) and only just a few layers can be printed directly from the computer, then the ARM32 gets overflowed and freezes. So, why not use the SD card as a data buffer? Other 3D printers are able to do this (eg. Flashforge, Dremel et al.). Somewhere in my old brain I think I have read that you can make this CPU to write its firmware/memory to the SD card - I am no software engineer, so I cannot follow this to any extent.
In the meantime I am going to use an adapter cable (Micro SD to normal SD card) because this is much less costly than a new motherboard, and readily available too.
The Tronxy engineers need a kick in the beehind to get their printers up to a useful standard. Mind you - hardware-like these 3D printers are getting better day by day. But unless they follow up with the firmware I would not advise anybody to buy one (with the exception - if you are able to swap the motherboard to something else and get it to run)
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