We are printing a prosthetic socket stl file on a DeltaWASP 20x40. It is approximately a 10cm diameter and 40cm height hollow cylinder, printed with 0% infill and six perimeters. We create the .stl file in a program called Omega, then create the g-code in Slic3r. We set all the print settings in Slic3r, then export the g-code onto the SD card that came with our DeltaWASP printer. We insert the SD card into the printer and print the stl file.
The print proceeds normally until at some point the extruder just stops moving. The extruder is not clogged. The display on the printer screen still says, “printing”. All the temperatures look normal. This inexplicable stopping has happened at 27%, 30%, 45%, and 60% of print completion.
We have successfully printed the same g-code from the same SD card on a different printer (makerbot Z18). We have successfully printed the files from the manufacturer (Aria the dragon) off the same SD card on our printer.
We have tried resetting the printer to manufacturer’s settings. We have tried restarting the printer and re-leveling the bed. The printer continued to stop inexplicably (at different points) even after we did these things.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
pavidp
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We are using a DeltaWASP 4070 and are currently experiencing an identical issue.
Please let me know if you manage to resolve this!
- Dave
We had to use a completely new SD card. The one that came with the printer had some kind of defect that was messing with the microprocessor. Hope this helps. Good luck.
pavidp
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Brilliant, we also used the same fix. I think perhaps the read speed of the supplied Wasp SD card is low (eg. Class 1, 2MB/s) so we swapped it for a Class 10 Sandisk 16GB SD Card with a read speed of around 10MB/s and haven’t had a problem since.
Maybe there was a ‘digital bottleneck’ and the printer wasn’t being supplied gcode fast enough.
I’m very pleased that it’s resolved, thanks for writing back.
