3DPrinting @lemmy.world IMALlama @lemmy.world 2 mo. ago

Tell me I have a thermistor wire failing without telling me...

I can see the wire break in the cable chain :'(

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I think I need more coffee. Does the chart show where the thermistor failed?

I’m kind of worried that it’s not obvious and if it happened to me I’d miss it.

Or is it that it doesn’t show? And, if so, that’s worrying since thermal runaway protection may not trigger properly.
- +1. No idea what's supposed to lead to this conclusion. I'd say that's a bad PID tune.
  
  The drops especially are way too steep for this to be a PID tune. There's too much thermal mass to loose that kind of temperature basically instantly.
  
  Lots of wandering around? PID tune seems like a good starting point, especially if something on the printer changed. Defying the laws of physics? Something else is going on.
  
  If you got used to looking at your graph and saw those dropouts, you start looking for a physical problem.
  
  The short timeframe and variations that are way to high even for a mediocrely tuned PID
  
  That’s worrying then. He can see the wires broken but it still has enough connectivity to keep chugging.
  
  On the plus side if the thermistor broke enough that it would keep pumping heat into the system then thermal runaway protection should trigger at least.
- There's no way the hot end's temperature is changing that much and that rapidly in such a small time period. Rapid 1-2 °C fluctuations? Sure. This is significantly bigger than that.
  
  Ahh. I see that now. Not cycling like it normally would.
Luckily that's a cheap and easy fix
Too familiar with that plot, at least you diagnosed it quick and it was apparent, sometimes they show up super intermittent and are a pain to chase.

I think I recall you having a break a while back ago on !vorondesign@lemmy.world, same spot?
- That was me, but in that case it was the heater wire and the break was in the y-chain. This break is in the x-chain. Based on a reply on the Voron design forum, I may not have left enough slack in my wire runs. The breaks always happen on the inside radius, right where a wire touches one of the links in the chain, so this seems like a decent theory.
  
  I think I'm going to completely rewire the hot end. On the fence about going to USB or CAN vs discreet wiring. Since I tend to print big things, I don't think an umbilical is a great idea - it seems like it would not work that well in high z situations. My reverse bowden already snags things sometimes.
  
  I left probably too large loops in those places, but I've seen some nasty cable breaks when I worked with pipeline inspection tools so I'm kinda paranoid about having enough slack.
  
  Umbilical folds on itself pretty well, I probably have mine too high tbh, but I could see a tophat mod being a thing. What you gain in less wires with can, you do add complexity to your overall setup, ran into some timeout issues after upgrading my SBC which seems to be related to this crowsnest issue thread that I've got sorted. Usb toolheads are a good idea, I went can because I'm using that for an ercf anyhow and already had bunch of usb devices.
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Edit: Never mind, I get it now.

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