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I feel stupid, but may someone later on will read this forum page... I found that if you open the cabinet and check the inside power plug that if it wiggles the display screen will freak out and lessen voltage for accurate temp... XD MY ORION WAS POWER HUNGRY!

What is worse however is that at times the display screen shows tons of strange characters and such... then goes blank but is clearly still on. I don't know if this is a deeper issue.

Okay, so I've been playing with it for hours now, and I've found that the issue isn't the brass nut, its something with my extruder. It is to a point now that my stepper makes the thunk noise and it may just be a jam in the extruder rather than the brass nut where build up was accumulating when I ...

Yes'sir. I run it at 50% minimum.

Alright, so my boss was so thrilled at how well the Rostock Max printed after we had taken the advice of this forum that he bought two more printers. This time however he invested in the Orion. THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL along with their accuracy. I would highly recommend them, however, they have a huge ...

I re-calibrated thanks to all of the awesome advice, you were right, it was too high and now I'm printing awesome shurikens and octopi and my boss is very happy with the outcome. The real work is about to begin, and I can't thank you all enough. I also found that I get the best adhesion on 95 and ...

Brilliant. That .STL was an eye opener. Too cool.
*laughs*
You guys are too awesome, saved me so much stress.
Thank you!

It seems that the calibrations are were the real weak point is. In some places it was more than -.35 off...

and there he said it.... Bed calibration print time! For a rostock: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:50505 If your calibration isn't spot on it'll show up with this. If your printer is perfectly calibrated on a flat print surface with a flat nozzle that is parallel with the bed, the width of the ...

I wonder if your nozzle is too high.... When it's at 0,0,0, you should be able to just barely get a sheet of paper under it and have the nozzle tip gently drag on the paper. g. I thought so before, but it went smoothly... XD I'm going to have to take a video of this bizarre beginning curl and post ...

I suspect he's telling the machine the filament is 1.5 because he doesn't know what he's doing. :) Pull about 2 meters of filament off the roll and spot check it in five places. Average the readings and put that result in the filament diameter. Set the extrusion multiplier back to the default. You ...

Okay, so I have restored all settings, raised the bed temp to 105 C, Lowered the Extruder temp to 220 C, brought the first layer height to .35, however looking closely, I see that there is no issue with adhesion... except for the first 2 seconds of laying down the line. The plastic is curling just ...

The one thing that stands out to me is that filament diameter. Is that the ACTUAL averaged diameter over a few feet of filament? In my experience I'll see an average of about 1.67 to 1.72. Under-specifying your filament diameter will result in way too much being pushed out the hot end. The ...

So I'm experiencing a few errors that to me, are very random. Granted, I've been assigned by my boss to be the Printer Master, which entails that I learn everything about it as if it were my best friend. We were just antiquated yesterday as it started off great because my boss had already done a lot ...