Herman's build of Ro MAX V2
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:32 am
The assembling went smoothly after I received replacement parts for board Nr 1, I received two No 4's but no No 1 with the 1-st shipment. It was confusing to have different melamine board compositions then shown in the manual and I thought I was still missing the base which really eyed differently. Instead of crimping the hot end resistors to a wire I used ferules on the wires and connected them with screw terminal connectors that are common in Europe I used the tubular brass insides with the screws and covered them with kapton tape. It is much easier to disassemble then crimping. I used the same 4 -way screw terminal connector block for extending the extruder stepper motor leads in the loft of the machine. The big nylon lined nuts are OK but the smaller nuts that go with the LCD display tend to be ejected from my pliers and I had 2 of 8 going ballistic that way. Never recovered of course, but luckily I only needed 6. The size is not easy to come by in the SI world. None of them got in straight, but they don't really define the machine's structure. I did get the skates mirrored at first but that's easy to correct. I finished assembling Monday morning 10-20-2014 and went to bed without delay.
The assembly manual is the version 2 but it is about Repetier V. 1.0.5. The download from this website is vsn 1.0.6 everything else is the same. It took me a lot of time to realize that I could not get a G-code entry line and there was no way to turn on a status log window. Where could I enter this M119 command? well everything had a different makeup, so it took me some time to realize this was the easy mode that the button was showing not because it could be switched to easy mode but because it was already in easy mode and it had to be switched out of easy mode to get the options I needed.
My limit switches are OK and then hitting the home button produced 2 cheapskates (y and Z) running downwards ( yes God forbid in the manual ). The shaft on the y-axis is already mechanically mirrored so it should run opposite to the other 2 axes. looking in Repetier's Arduino configuration.h it does have a false in the y direction definition. This means that both my y and z motors were wired reversely and so my y motor direction definition needs to be true instead of false and my z motor direction gets a change to false. Saving, uploading and hitting home makes all 3 skates running upward. My hot-end is heating and gives a nice rise in displayed temp. after a while ans so does my onyx heater. That's where I stopped Tuesday night. (10/21/2014)
I have a full time job with about 47- 48 hours/wk keeping our students experimenting and I need to feed my self and my dog and I get fresh air regularly taking her for a walk. I might design a robot for that, powered by a pulling dog. I actually like walking my dog but it might be a good selling thing. clients: hunters, dog-asylums, disabled persons, owners that hate rain or fear the dark, during working hours. I have so many more ideas that I 'll stop here.
The assembly manual is the version 2 but it is about Repetier V. 1.0.5. The download from this website is vsn 1.0.6 everything else is the same. It took me a lot of time to realize that I could not get a G-code entry line and there was no way to turn on a status log window. Where could I enter this M119 command? well everything had a different makeup, so it took me some time to realize this was the easy mode that the button was showing not because it could be switched to easy mode but because it was already in easy mode and it had to be switched out of easy mode to get the options I needed.
My limit switches are OK and then hitting the home button produced 2 cheapskates (y and Z) running downwards ( yes God forbid in the manual ). The shaft on the y-axis is already mechanically mirrored so it should run opposite to the other 2 axes. looking in Repetier's Arduino configuration.h it does have a false in the y direction definition. This means that both my y and z motors were wired reversely and so my y motor direction definition needs to be true instead of false and my z motor direction gets a change to false. Saving, uploading and hitting home makes all 3 skates running upward. My hot-end is heating and gives a nice rise in displayed temp. after a while ans so does my onyx heater. That's where I stopped Tuesday night. (10/21/2014)
I have a full time job with about 47- 48 hours/wk keeping our students experimenting and I need to feed my self and my dog and I get fresh air regularly taking her for a walk. I might design a robot for that, powered by a pulling dog. I actually like walking my dog but it might be a good selling thing. clients: hunters, dog-asylums, disabled persons, owners that hate rain or fear the dark, during working hours. I have so many more ideas that I 'll stop here.