[solved]Motor speeds question | ArmoredTurtle 3D | Page 1

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 2:32 PM

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I'm struggling during printing with filament changes. When it's loading filament I'm finding that my Lane respolers spin too fast and I'd like to slow them down. It creates a big portion of slack on the spools. Here's a photo of a screenshot of my configuration I thought might help. I'm just not sure which direction to make the change. 0.5 was the default and I've moved it to 0.48 thinking it would slow it down some. But I didn't seem to notice much difference and I'm curious what you guys suggest. You'll also notice when you look at my config that I have reversed the motors for the respoolers in the configuration because they seem to spin the wrong direction.

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I'm thinking I should change the FWD but I have myself confused because I've reversed things

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I'm wondering if I should just redo the connectors so that the motor spin the proper direction and not have to manipulate firmware for the direction?

fossil rose Feb 24, 2025, 2:36 PM

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it's up to you, the end effect is the same re: direction

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remind me if this is a self source kit or an ldo one?

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 2:36 PM

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No I fully built and sourced everything

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I just basically want to slow down the respooler motor when I'm doing the filament change so I was thinking I was in the right area experimenting?

fossil rose Feb 24, 2025, 2:37 PM

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yes, you can do that

try something like 0.3 or even 0.1

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 2:37 PM

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Unloading and respooling works okay. It's just when I'm loading new filament to the tool head I get a big loop of slack

fossil rose Feb 24, 2025, 2:37 PM

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it's possible you got not-spec N20 motors ...

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 2:37 PM

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It's possible that I received what I didn't order

fossil rose Feb 24, 2025, 2:37 PM

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correct

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it's been known to happen 🙂

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 2:37 PM

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It's not super off it just needs some adjustment

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It's just weird though because I thought I had my polarity correct when I was on the test bench using a basic power supply

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But if that's the only thing that was reversed I think I did all right lol

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 3:01 PM

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I also see in here that it has default material temps

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How does this configuration know what temperature is in material to use?

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Does it somehow read it from the slicer

solar bolt Feb 24, 2025, 3:48 PM

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You can set material with the "SET_MATERIAL" macro, if you are using spoolman then it pulls the material type from spoolman https://github.com/ArmoredTurtle/AFC-Klipper-Add-On/blob/main/docs%2Fcommand_reference.md#set_material. Also there is a default option that has been added and is testing in dev for when you don't have material set

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 3:49 PM

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It appears setting those motor settings worked nicely thank you

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fossil rose Feb 24, 2025, 5:28 PM

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We good here then?

hushed grotto Feb 24, 2025, 8:58 PM

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Sorry yes we're good

#[solved]Motor speeds question