gazob wrote:I received my kit Friday afternoon, surprisingly quickly from the states to Australia. No point in a build log, its built and largely operational.
Wiring still need to be sized in places, I am running external at this point, may rebuild in the future and drill the extrusions and run internally.
Had bought earlier ramps 1.4 ultimate kit, LCD screen / controller, and heated bed from reprapdiscounts on eBay. The gear is all good, the pololus, or the ones I got are not standard, finding the right adjustment for the steppers was difficult, in the end measured from central via to gnd I found 100-120mV worked best. Heated bed and thermister is setup on 1/8 bolts and springs, may change at a future date but works okay. The smart controller ended up being easy enough to setup in marlin, a few worrying moments till I realised I needed to adjust the pot on the back to view the LCD characters.
Thinking of ordering these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3-x-Hall-End ... 2320b1ee6d from reprapdiscounts as well, should be able to adjust end stops to proximity, hope they are accurate enough.
Waiting on the qu-bd extruder, but even when it turns up will have to wait for my birthday, so for the next couple of months will be finishing all the half finished bits.
Thinking one of my first prints will be an enclosure for the smart controller that attaches to the end cap in the top of the right hand upright maker slide and down into the tslots.
Anyway enough rambling from me, happy with how its gone together up to this point
Gaz
Boxcar wrote:gazob wrote:I received my kit Friday afternoon, surprisingly quickly from the states to Australia. No point in a build log, its built and largely operational.
Wiring still need to be sized in places, I am running external at this point, may rebuild in the future and drill the extrusions and run internally.
Had bought earlier ramps 1.4 ultimate kit, LCD screen / controller, and heated bed from reprapdiscounts on eBay. The gear is all good, the pololus, or the ones I got are not standard, finding the right adjustment for the steppers was difficult, in the end measured from central via to gnd I found 100-120mV worked best. Heated bed and thermister is setup on 1/8 bolts and springs, may change at a future date but works okay. The smart controller ended up being easy enough to setup in marlin, a few worrying moments till I realised I needed to adjust the pot on the back to view the LCD characters.
Thinking of ordering these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3-x-Hall-End ... 2320b1ee6d from reprapdiscounts as well, should be able to adjust end stops to proximity, hope they are accurate enough.
Waiting on the qu-bd extruder, but even when it turns up will have to wait for my birthday, so for the next couple of months will be finishing all the half finished bits.
Thinking one of my first prints will be an enclosure for the smart controller that attaches to the end cap in the top of the right hand upright maker slide and down into the tslots.
Anyway enough rambling from me, happy with how its gone together up to this point
Gaz
I have the same Ramps kit from the same company. They list them as A4988 Stepper Motor Drivers. I figured they were just clones. Please let me know when you have them figured out.
I just started on my ORD Bot this afternoon. I drilled the extrusions and grabbed a few more tools that I needed. I'm really hoping to have it done by the end of the weekend minus the extruders. It seems like almost every new ORD Bot owner here is patiently waiting on QU-BD's MBEs.
gazob wrote:Boxcar wrote:gazob wrote:I received my kit Friday afternoon, surprisingly quickly from the states to Australia. No point in a build log, its built and largely operational.
Wiring still need to be sized in places, I am running external at this point, may rebuild in the future and drill the extrusions and run internally.
Had bought earlier ramps 1.4 ultimate kit, LCD screen / controller, and heated bed from reprapdiscounts on eBay. The gear is all good, the pololus, or the ones I got are not standard, finding the right adjustment for the steppers was difficult, in the end measured from central via to gnd I found 100-120mV worked best. Heated bed and thermister is setup on 1/8 bolts and springs, may change at a future date but works okay. The smart controller ended up being easy enough to setup in marlin, a few worrying moments till I realised I needed to adjust the pot on the back to view the LCD characters.
Thinking of ordering these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3-x-Hall-End ... 2320b1ee6d from reprapdiscounts as well, should be able to adjust end stops to proximity, hope they are accurate enough.
Waiting on the qu-bd extruder, but even when it turns up will have to wait for my birthday, so for the next couple of months will be finishing all the half finished bits.
Thinking one of my first prints will be an enclosure for the smart controller that attaches to the end cap in the top of the right hand upright maker slide and down into the tslots.
Anyway enough rambling from me, happy with how its gone together up to this point
Gaz
I have the same Ramps kit from the same company. They list them as A4988 Stepper Motor Drivers. I figured they were just clones. Please let me know when you have them figured out.
I just started on my ORD Bot this afternoon. I drilled the extrusions and grabbed a few more tools that I needed. I'm really hoping to have it done by the end of the weekend minus the extruders. It seems like almost every new ORD Bot owner here is patiently waiting on QU-BD's MBEs.
The reprapdiscount pololu copies use 000 sense resitors and as such where the wiki for pololus tells you to measure 400mV from the central via to ground to get them in the ball park for correct operation with nema17 steppers, these ones i set to between 100 and 120mV, 3 of them ended up being faulty, whether i killed them by trying to get them working, or whether they were doa I dont know, but reprapdiscount was quick to offer replacements and is also throwing in some halls effect endstops. most of us experience faulty and or failed electronics, its how the supplier deals with it that marks a "good" supplier. In this case I cant fault reprapdiscount and would recommend to any.
GaZ
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