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raray
Oct '16

I’ve had the MP Select Mini (my first 3D printer) for a couple weeks now. I’ve had many successful prints but I’m also having a really frustrating, recurring issue. At least four times now the printer has stopped mid-print and automatically begun the print again. It offsets as though it had been at the home position and starts a new raft, etc. Last night I was able to catch it right at the beginning of this process, and it actually displayed a second progress bar superimposed on the first.

Has anyone else run into this or have ideas on how to stop it from happening?

Edit: Here’s a photo of the double progress bars - http://imgur.com/w592OUp 33

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hendersonjase
Oct '16

Wow that is strange. When it restarts, does it finish the second print or have you stopped it before finding out?

raray
Oct '16

One happened without me being around and it failed pretty early into the first print, so it was able to finish the second print. It was almost a usable part! All the other times I’ve stopped it and there has been too much material in the way for it to complete, but it still tries.

Ahaber
Oct '16

I have had some similar problems with my printer recently. It generally fails within the first 10% of the print and it goes an homes itself and then restarts the print at the beginning. I don’t know why it happens but it seems to be a problem with the SD card or the SD card reader because I have also had some issues with the printer screen freezing when selecting a gcode file from the SD card. I have also sometimes it says it can’t read the SD card even though it is in the printer. Most of these problems occurred after I plugged the SD card into my windows 10 computer and clicked on the notification to “repair it” I haven’t had any problems within the last couple of days related to this, so maybe it fixed it self only time will tell.

hendersonjase
Oct '16

I said it was strange, as though it was some rare fluke that only happened to you. Well it happened to me the day after your note. And i happened to see it. The arm snapped off the top portion of my print as it moved back from home. Trying to track when it happened (layer, percent complete, which sd card, etc.) because that is not only annoying but possibly damaging to the equipment. You detail about the second print almost completing is useful. Thanks for sharing.