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Are 3D printers by nature this flaky?

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  1. blykins

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    It's one thing after another with this printer.

    I've replaced the board. Replaced the hot end (twice). Replaced POGO pin board.

    It seems like I work on the printer more than I get to use it.

    After the last fiasco with the bad board, it seemed to be working fine. Last week I started getting the "filament has run out" error. Using Robo3D brand PLA and nothing has changed as far as operating parameters.

    When I change filament, I can let it run for several minutes, feeding material though and letting it pile up on the bed. As soon as I start a print, it gets ~30 seconds to 1 minute into it and gives an error. Same hot end temperature. Same bed temperature.
     
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    Moving this to R2 sub-forum, there are no Pogopins on the R1...
     
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    Whoops, sorry.
     
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    I have had a wealth of problems with several non-Robo printers. It is rather new tech and at the sub-2k price point it is still a bit hit-or-miss on quality*. I know this is something that Robo is working on (you should be insisting on a V2 bed replacement as well -- no more PogoPins).

    Hang in there, once you get it working they are generally pretty solid.


    *something that is non-obvious when starting out. The cost savings comes from "somewhere" :)
     
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    I'm an idiot, and we'll just leave it at that. Sorry for the trouble guys, I'm just not well-versed in these things and it's a big learning curve for me.
     
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    Nah, there is a learning curve :)
     
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    BTW, the issue was that I had the filament coming through the right hand side hole in the rear of the printer. Swapped it to the left hole and it's running ok.....so far.
     
    #8 blykins, Feb 26, 2018
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