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  1. Dennis Pyles

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    I was changing the filament on my R1+ and when I tried to extrude the filament via matter control I ended up getting a stuttering "machine gun fire" sound coming from the extruder stepper motor. I am able to manually extrude the filament and the extruder motor seems to work fine when there is no filament in the extruder. I have already tried switching the wires with the "Y" motor and I get the same "machine gun" noise from the "Y" motor this time but the extruder motor worked fine. I have read on the forums about adjusting the speed control, I have not tried that yet. I wanted to check to see if that should be my next step, because of the fact that the motor moves fine when there is no filament inserted.
     
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    Of course under warranty contact Robo for a replacement -- they will likely just replace the entire RAMPS (which is not really needed).
     
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    Refresh my memory please. I bought this May 24th 2016. It's only got a 6 month warranty though doesnt it?
     
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    5 months I believe, you can look on their webpage I think and find it.
    (I do not work for them, sorry)
     
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    I will be ordering the kit. Until then I am going to try to "tune" the card to keep me going til then. Do you know where I can find a diagram to make sure I am working on the correct board?
     
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    I just got my RAMPS kit
    OSOYOO 3D Printer Kit with RAMPS 1.4 Controller + Mega 2560 board + 5pcs A4988 Stepper Motor Driver with Heatsink + LCD 12864 Graphic Smart Display Controller with Adapter For Arduino RepRap.

    Is there a video or PDF on installing this?
     
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    Watch this. Covers it pretty well. Not that specific kit, but the electronics.

     
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    Thats helps tremendously. One other question, what about the firmware? I have a ROBO 3D R1+
     
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    If all you replace is the RAMPS there is no need to mess with the firmware.
     
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