Simple Metal stops moving and just extrudes a blob

[keeleon]

1/ have you created a printrbot support ticket ? They answer within the day usually.

I haven't, because I'm operating under the assumptio nthat I don't know how to use it, but I'm prett ytech savvy, so I'm begining to suspect I may actually have faulty equipment somewhere, so I will be.

2/ thjis seems more linked to your link to the printer than the printer itself.

I think so too. I have tried multiple objects and the problem happens on all of them, inconsistently in where and when, but it definitely happens on every print except one I've ever done. I'm actua;;y goona try and make a few of that to see if it happens there.

3/ do the motors seem hot ?

As a matter of fact the extruder gear motor is getting pretty hot. I had felt it before but it didn't seem to bad, but when I felt it just now about 10 min into a print, it feels pretty hot. not too hot to hold onto, but like a hot jacuzzi.

4/ have you tried to autoprint from a sd card ?

I tried it once and I believe the same thing happened, but I am going to try it again to confim.

5/ Your gcode file is incomplete. Have you tried to read what's in the file for lines 365 and over ?

I'm trying to upload the gcode data to pastebin but apparently that's too much for them to handle >.< In notepadd++ here is line 360 to 370. But it is different print to print even on the same item, so I doubt it's the code's fault.

G1 X98.843 Y67.041 E16.40095
G1 X99.433 Y67.948 E16.45493
G1 X99.709 Y68.781 E16.49871
G1 X99.816 Y69.493 E16.53463
G1 X99.840 Y70.182 E16.56903
G1 X99.800 Y70.781 E16.59898
G1 X100.339 Y70.798 E16.62588
G1 X101.013 Y70.878 E16.65974
G1 X101.719 Y71.049 E16.69598
G1 X102.512 Y71.389 E16.73903
G1 X103.368 Y72.042 E16.79274

6/ what's the hotend temp when your blob is created ? is your printer trying to get back to target temp ?

Printing at 210, and it remains consistent throughout.




I'm wondering if my problem lies in the motor heating up, that might explain the inconsistency. But if the extruder motor got too hot, would that cause the X and Y to stop moving, and the extruder to just push like 5-10 pulses of PLA into a blob? I'm trying to get a video to better explain what's happening but the machine isn't cooperating and I dont have the patience or a set up to sit and record a full print....

[keeleon]

Her'es a video of it doing what I'm talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-7l...m-upload_owner