Hi,
@Abernus posted an issue he was having with his makerbot 11months ago. The thread remains unanswered to this day, but now I am having the same issue as him. Checking his profile, he seems to have managed to fix it as his next posts are related to other issues. Sadly, I am unable to find a way to message him directly so I am forced to post a new topic about it, hopefully someone else will have figured out how to fix it.
The original thread is here: Talk Manufacturing | Hubs
Simply put, When i try to load the filament, it starts to heat the extruder but it never reaches the 100%, and after 5 minutes of trying, it times out.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Hi,
The only solution I found to this issue was to use the pre-heat on the printer. What I was doing was selecting a print and letting the printer heat up while waiting to print. Now this is only an assumption but all I can think of is when you start a print there is a 5 min time out if the printer doesn;t start to print it fails.
On your printer, if you go to utilities and then down to pre-heat and let that run it will get up to temp. Then from there exit this menu and select your print.
Since having this issue I have had several other (all now resolved) but I have also since upgraded the firmware to salfish, put a glass bed on it, Z rod tensioner, cooling duct fan and changed the hot end. It now prints 100% better than out of the box.
Hope this helps.
You probably got a bad heating cartridge. You should replace that with a new one. The printer should get to the 210°C filament losing temperature pretty fast. Like a minute or two. Not five.
