What's up with the filament sensor?
I turned on the filament sensor and ran a job in PET-G. It was like "Unload Filament" "Load Filament". I cancelled the job, turned the filament sensor Cleaned the bed and the job ran as espected.
What is up with the filament sensor?
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
I think the sensor is having problems with shiny and translucent filaments especially green white and cream
changes have been mage in firmware, have you loaded the most up to date version?
regards Joan
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Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
I too have had problems with white filament but have not had any problems with a translucent blue PET-G (so far!).
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Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
The optical filament sensor seems to have trouble tracking some glossy filaments. Try disabling the sensor if having issues, it may solve the problem.
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
Hi Joan,
I think you are right as the reflective factor for PETG is greater than ABS so that may need to be worked on a bit. And it worked fine enabled on an ABS job I ran before.
It's a work in progress. And yes I am at the latest firmware revision, and the most recent software releases
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
On latest fw.
All my PLA filaments work fine, but the black PETG for some reason makes the filament sensor unhappy and I can't print for more than a few minutes if the sensor is enabled. This wasn't happening before they made the change.
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
Im still having a few false positives with lighter colored filaments...
Its not triggering like crazy but enough to be annoying!
I'm using 3.1.2.... gotta try with 3.1.3 but since there was no mention of the sensor in the changes i dont know if its fixed or not.... In fact i dont know if this is really fixable... i think the sensor will always have trouble with some filaments.
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
I am using FW3.1.3 with filament sensor enabled, printing translucent shiny PEG (Smoke black)
been going over two hours, no mis sense so far!
regards Joan
I try to make safe suggestions,You should understand the context and ensure you are happy that they are safe before attempting to apply my suggestions, what you do, is YOUR responsibility. Location Halifax UK
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
I am using FW3.1.3 with filament sensor enabled, printing translucent shiny PEG (Smoke black)
been going over two hours, no mis sense so far!
regards Joan
Thats nice to hear... gotta try the latest FW then... :p
Have you tried white filament?
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
don't think i have tried white on FW3.1.3
is yours PLA or PETG?
Joan
I try to make safe suggestions,You should understand the context and ensure you are happy that they are safe before attempting to apply my suggestions, what you do, is YOUR responsibility. Location Halifax UK
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
don't think i have tried white on FW3.1.3
is yours PLA or PETG?
Joan
Its PLA.
Re: What's up with the filament sensor?
Hi Leonardo, I have just done a white benchy 0.15 layer height, took 2 hours 57 minutes. but I realised I hadn't reset the feed rate on the LCD, from the previous print...
absolutely no false triggers off the filament sensor!
this was in firmware 3.1.3
regards joan
I try to make safe suggestions,You should understand the context and ensure you are happy that they are safe before attempting to apply my suggestions, what you do, is YOUR responsibility. Location Halifax UK