Extruder Randomly Stopping During Prints

[spiral niche]

AI Help

It sounds like there may be an issue with the extruder motor. Here are some troubleshooting steps you can try:

1. Check the extruder motor connection: Make sure the motor cable is securely plugged into the motherboard. Sometimes cables can come loose during printing.

2. Test the motor: You can test the extruder motor by disconnecting it from the motherboard and connecting it to a different axis port (like the X or Y axis). This will help you determine if the motor itself is faulty.

3. Check the motor driver: The issue could also be with the motor driver on the motherboard. You can try swapping motor drivers with a known working axis to see if the problem persists.

If you've tried these steps and are still experiencing issues, it may be helpful to contact the manufacturer for further assistance or consider replacing the extruder motor.

WARNING: This response is AI generated and may contain errors.

[burnt dirge]

I even tried my old extruder, which worked fine and it also didnt work

now it doesnt work at all

i connected it to my pc, and everything works fine now

but when im running it off of marlin, it doesnt work

nvm

it worked for a sec now it doesnt anymore

whats the problem?

[honest ridge]

I would assume stepper motor driver wire is disconnecting, check the crimp areas

[fair hound]

have you tried flashing firmware to the latest?

[burnt dirge]

it doesnt even happen in a specific spot, it just happens randomly, i didnt change anything with my printer it just randomly started happening

[fair hound]

@burnt dirge do you have a way to get terminal access to the printer?

[burnt dirge]

yes i tried reflashing it i have the firmware on my computer

[fair hound]

does it M999?

[honest ridge]

Does it stop and run when the gantry is moving

I don't think its a firmware issue

[burnt dirge]

Wdym

[fair hound]

does the printer die with M-code 999 and call kill()?

[honest ridge]

Its gotta be the stepper wires, or the stepper drivers

[fair hound]

yea likely the driver blew possibly?

[honest ridge]

Please check your stepper wire connection, motion will kill the stepper motor wires

[burnt dirge]

I have it connected to my PC right now, i will try to run the command

[honest ridge]

You might have to replace it

[fair hound]

no m999 is a command issued from the printer

saying stop everything

[honest ridge]

But before that, it could also be your stepper driver is overheating, does it have a heatsink connected properly?

[fair hound]

also you might while you are there check e0's amperage

[burnt dirge]

No, that doesnt happen the print just continues as normal, just the extruder doesnt extruder at all

[burnt dirge]

yes everything i connected properly, everything was working just fine then out of nowhere it started doing this

[fair hound]

I'd RMA it to Creality to be honest

[honest ridge]

You should check the crimp connections man, it could have been worn out by the gantry movements tbh

Not just replugging, but inspecting

[fair hound]

if you haven't changed anything, and the printer is default how it came, I'd start the RMA process with creality

[burnt dirge]

I have, ive inspected the entire wire and I even used a multimeter through it, it all looks fine

[fair hound]

they will also have you do troubleshooting steps

[honest ridge]

I'd test the wire on the other steppers with other drivers

[fair hound]

yea you could swap it around and see if it moves

[honest ridge]

Can you try that at least, try using other wires from other steppers

[burnt dirge]

right now i just extruded on my ender 3 and it works, but when i start a print, it will work for a bit and then just completely stop

[fair hound]

is your nozzle up to temp right now?

[burnt dirge]

Yes 200 C

[fair hound]

do you have a filament you don't really care about loaded?

[burnt dirge]

No i dont have any filament loaded, its just turning with no filament

[honest ridge]

Oh, check that if the temps go down when extruding

[burnt dirge]

Also, i have tried using my old extruder and i had the exact some problem

[honest ridge]

It will stop extruding if it gets too low <180C default

[fair hound]

do a G1 E5000 F120 with no filament loaded

at temp too

[burnt dirge]

Should I just run these on pronterface?

[fair hound]

yes if you can

no filament loaded

thats very important

unless you want to waste 5 meters

[honest ridge]

Imagine if the printer is just bugged out and he hasn't tried turning it off and on again

[burnt dirge]

i have, multiple times i wish that was the issue

[fair hound]

I'd hope that he would check that lol

its like step one of troubleshooting

[burnt dirge]

pronterface is giving me this

[fair hound]

awwh

try g1 E1000 F120

or E999

[burnt dirge]

Same thing

[fair hound]

I think its normally set to 999

G1 E999 F120

[burnt dirge]

That works

[fair hound]

listen and see if the motor stops

[burnt dirge]

It seems to be turning just fine

Should i load some old filament?

[fair hound]

you could also issue a M300 S5000 P2000 as well

then it should beep when it is done with that extrusion

[burnt dirge]

okay, do you think this could be a hardware related error or firmware?

[fair hound]

it could be any number of things

stepper motor

stepper driver

like you haven't done anything at all to the printer

no recent changes?

running default creality provided firmware?

[burnt dirge]

No recent changes, but I have installed a DD extruder and dual z-axis, I am also using a different firmware. But ive been using this for a couple of months now and it all worked fine up until this point

[fair hound]

can you M115 and post the results

it might still be extruding

[burnt dirge]

Should I wait until its done extruding?

Yes it is

[fair hound]

yea it won't do it until its does with that extrusion

but you can always queue it

so if you send it right now it shouldn't matter

[burnt dirge]

Could It be the gcode i was using?

[fair hound]

maybe

did it do it at the same time every time?

did you slice it?

[burnt dirge]

No, it did it at random places

[burnt dirge]

Yes

with Cura

[fair hound]

unlikely then

are you printing the same model each time or is it different stuff?

[burnt dirge]

Same model, and its only been happening with this same exact model, i havent tried a different one yet

[fair hound]

https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html#baseline

when you get a chance can you input your printer stuff and print this gcode

[burnt dirge]

Okay, I will try this too

[fair hound]

that extrusion could take awhile

but it should be getting close to done now

[honest ridge]

Try moving the gantry tbh

Then redoing the extrusion

[fair hound]

yea you could write up a simple gcode program to move back and forth and extrude

[honest ridge]

Preferably somewhere where the wires are stretched far

[burnt dirge]

could it be that my retractions are set to 65 speed?

[honest ridge]

Maybe start with a clean profile first

[fair hound]

G28
G1 X0 Y0 E0 F120
G1 X200 Y200 E100 F120

[honest ridge]

If iit prints fine, then the profile you have is the problem

[burnt dirge]

I will try this next

[fair hound]

like maybe run something like that @burnt dirge but make sure you have 200mmx200mm working space

[honest ridge]

Fuck this thing made noises in my head

[burnt dirge]

I will try right now, it just finished extruding

[honest ridge]

I hear the scream of the a4988 driver

[burnt dirge]

Should i turn this into gcode?

Or are they commands

[fair hound]

F120 isn't that fast of a feed rate

[honest ridge]

It's gcode already 💀

[fair hound]

well all gcode is commands

[burnt dirge]

I sent it to my printer

[fair hound]

its likely homing right?

[burnt dirge]

Yes

Now its moving very, very slowly

[fair hound]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-phillips-look-at-me-im-the-captain-now-gif-5038544

[honest ridge]

Tell us if it stops while moving

[fair hound]

I'm the slicer now

[burnt dirge]

Wdym

The extruder?

its not spinning at all

[fair hound]

oh

well it should be

[honest ridge]

Bruh, then wait

Just wait for it

If it spins when it gets to a certain point, then its a wire problem

[burnt dirge]

wait

whoops

i just realized

that

[fair hound]

the commands should issue a home, and then a move from x0y0 to x200y200 while extruding

[burnt dirge]

pronterface gave me an error saying its too long to extrude

[honest ridge]

Bruh

[fair hound]

for E100?

what the hell

[burnt dirge]

Wait

nvm

now its extruding

this is so odd for some reason

[fair hound]

does it have an issue with the E0?!

[burnt dirge]

It got to the very very right side, stopped moving and then started extruding

now its moving to the left

[honest ridge]

It should move diagonally

[burnt dirge]

Yes yes, it is

To the left

[honest ridge]

Is your home set at the back

[burnt dirge]

I mean right

[fair hound]

yep from one corner to the other

[honest ridge]

Lmao

[burnt dirge]

Yes

it also is randomly popping back and forward

but then it continues extruding

[fair hound]

like skipping?

[burnt dirge]

yes,

[fair hound]

oh turn it off then

[burnt dirge]

it skips, then continues as normal, then skips again, and continues as normal;

[honest ridge]

That's gotta be a wire issue

[fair hound]

you have a 200mmx200mm working area right?

[burnt dirge]

Yes

[fair hound]

yea it shouldn't be skipping at all

[burnt dirge]

220mm x 220mm x 250mm

[honest ridge]

Wait oh

Is that power off recovery?

Can you disable that on the settings?

[burnt dirge]

i cant, i have to run a specific gcode let me find it real quick

[fair hound]

M413 S0

to turn it off

[burnt dirge]

Okay, ty ty. i started the previous gcode, should i wait for it to finish or shut it off?

[honest ridge]

Do the gcode again

[fair hound]

any gcode you issue will run in the order you give it to the processor

so it will go 1, 2, 3, 4,

and if its busy it will do each operation subsequently

thats not the case for all MCodes though

some don't block

[honest ridge]

You really can't parallelize that shit for most gcode because it's a moving gantry lmao

[fair hound]

yep gcode relies compeletely on this idea of blocking commmands

do this, then do this, then do this

etc

[burnt dirge]

I sent the command to turn off power loss recovery, what should i do now?

[honest ridge]

Funny shit when the printer nozzle goes G1 Z90 while G1 X20.2 Y30.4 E20 F2000 isn't finished

[fair hound]

run that gcode I posted again and see if it does the same thing

[burnt dirge]

okay, I will ill let you know how it goes

[fair hound]

if that works run that baseline print and see how it goes

from https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html#baseline

if you have abl make sure you set it to restored saved ABL

or you can g29 and do the mesh at time of print

[burnt dirge]

Im not quite sure what that is

[honest ridge]

Just print anything if that thing works

[fair hound]

you'll see a box that says which method of ABL to use

[honest ridge]

It doesn't matter so long as the thing extrudes

[fair hound]

you'll want to set that to restore saved

or g29

I'd do restore saved because I'm impatient as fuck

[honest ridge]

I think we can think later about the mesh

If it's extruding, then its fine

Even if the first layer is quite bad

[fair hound]

yea this would just eliminate the possibility of it being the slicer

that cube should print pretty fast at a 120 feed rate

[burnt dirge]

its still skipping

[fair hound]

hmm

[burnt dirge]

but in the exact same spots as before

[honest ridge]

How are you printing

[fair hound]

its not like hitting anything right?

[burnt dirge]

Via pronterface

[honest ridge]

Oh.

[burnt dirge]

Nope, its not hitting anything

[honest ridge]

It could be your usb connection is the issue

Try printing SD card rn

[burnt dirge]

before i was printing via usb, and i had the same problem

[honest ridge]

Try printing something using an SD card

[burnt dirge]

Should I just try this gcode again

[honest ridge]

It could be your usb cable is s h i t and unshielded

[burnt dirge]

Could be

[fair hound]

make sure you are issuing those one after the other

new lines matter there

so G28

then G1

then G1 again

[burnt dirge]

Okay

[honest ridge]

I'd make it a gcode file tbh

And try sd card

[fair hound]

yep that too you could just put it into a gcode file and print it on an SD card

I don't think its USB though because the commands are being sent to the processor

[honest ridge]

It sounds like the goober is running out of cache, or is busy doing something while printing

[fair hound]

you could reset to factory settings too

[honest ridge]

It could be the polling of pronterface is fucking it up

I'd remove the USB connection and try SD only first

[burnt dirge]

Okay, im going to try to use just the SD right now, no USB or anything else, just marlin

[fair hound]

its worth a shot and it just eliminates another possible issue for sure

[honest ridge]

If it still fails I'd RMA that crap

[fair hound]

yea same

[burnt dirge]

what does that mean?

[fair hound]

return it

[honest ridge]

Return the thing

[fair hound]

defective unit

creality actually has pretty decent RMA support

I had a decent experiance at least

[burnt dirge]

aw man i really hope its not, it worked fine before this

[honest ridge]

But it could just be a software issue with pronterface

[fair hound]

yea the fact that you changed board right?

and extruder?

that might complicate shit

[burnt dirge]

Yes, ive changed both

but it was working fine till now

[fair hound]

that could be the issue there as well

what board is it?

[burnt dirge]

default creality board, 4.2.7 for ender 3 v2 neo

i will send link one second

https://a.co/d/i2fNiZg

this one

[fair hound]

no problem I can pull it up

oh man and thats shitty too

non-removable stepper drivers

[honest ridge]

Replace it with a mellow d5 or something idk

mellow though doesn't have SD so...

[fair hound]

those boards have had issues before

the ender ones

[burnt dirge]

aw man that rlly sucks

[fair hound]

I've seen one just yesterday off itself via a short to ground on the power connector

[burnt dirge]

i didnt know any better

[fair hound]

its okay you live your learn and we don't know if thats the issue yet

[burnt dirge]

the gcode seems to run fine, should i try to print the cube?

[fair hound]

in the future though if you do a board upgrade ALWAYS get one with removable drivers if you can

yep print the cube

and the reason I say that is say you pop a driver

you buy a new one and boom put it in easy

versus buying a whole new mainboard

[burnt dirge]

yeah true

[honest ridge]

You can actually make the ender v4.2.7 removable stepper

[fair hound]

or if you feel brave

you can do a little surface mount repair

😛

I hope you have a magnifying glass / microscope, hot air rework station, flux and solder

[honest ridge]

Though doing it, is fucking stupid as fuck as you'd be removing the LCD just to get more steppers working

[fair hound]

BTT octopus v1.1 can't go wrong

and you get a free ducky

[honest ridge]

mellows are cheaper tho

[fair hound]

yea its an expensive board

but again you get a free ducky

or I guess maybe you pay a premium for the ducky?

[burnt dirge]

it printed the purge line fine, then as soon as it started to print the actual model it make a weird ass noise and then started clicking again

[fair hound]

wait wait

its clicking

[honest ridge]

And there we go. Its a stepper wire issue

[fair hound]

you didn't say it was clicking did you?!

well no wait

it could be the extruder is just clogged

or its not meshing

[honest ridge]

That's also fair

[burnt dirge]

What should i try next ?

[fair hound]

you have a direct drive right?

[burnt dirge]

Yes

[honest ridge]

Can you try to push the fillament while its hot?

[fair hound]

what direct drive system you got?

[burnt dirge]

Sprite direct drive extruder

[burnt dirge]

I will try right now

[honest ridge]

Disengage the mfin thing tho

Disengage the direct drive first

[fair hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwofh3VT7h0

[burnt dirge]

i can push through filament just fine

[honest ridge]

Yeah, then that's not a jam issue

[fair hound]

with the stepper disengage?

could still be a gear meshing problem

[honest ridge]

Its literally the wires 💀

Or that lmao

[fair hound]

I bought a H2 Revo V2S and it does this shit near constantly

do not recommend btw

[burnt dirge]

could be, i tried using my old extruder as a dummy and trying to extrude filament and it did the same thing, locked for a second and didnt move at all

[fair hound]

yea then its likely not the extruder

[honest ridge]

Do m500

Then turn off your printer

[burnt dirge]

via usb or sd card?

[honest ridge]

Usb

[fair hound]

USB

[honest ridge]

Swap the extruder wire with any stepper wire, preferably the X axis

if the X axis starts acting up, its the wire

[fair hound]

yea that will pretty much confirm it for sure

yep turn the printer off now

I'd swap the wire while you are there too

[burnt dirge]

okay, now swap the x and e wires?

[fair hound]

yep

[honest ridge]

Yes

Now try to do the gcode again

But without the USB, still SD card

[burnt dirge]

okay I swapped the wires, ill try using the Gcode now'

It tried to home the printer, but it couldnt

The x axis isnt moving at all

[fair hound]

you can't home

[burnt dirge]

Nope not at all

[honest ridge]

There we go

Confirmed the wire is shit

[fair hound]

well yea but you can't home because E is now X

the printer will not home in that config

[honest ridge]

Wait wtf did you just swap em on the outside

[burnt dirge]

Yes

[honest ridge]

I meant both on the board and the outside lmao

[burnt dirge]

oh.

Okay one second

[fair hound]

I mean what you did is fine but it just wouldn't home 😛

you could test it like that

[honest ridge]

It would just run the extruder indef lmao

[burnt dirge]

How?

[honest ridge]

Or until the thing decides it can't home

[fair hound]

G1 X250 F120

that would actually be a E move now

and E moves are now x moves

[honest ridge]

Too confusing though, so I'd swap the wires tbh

[burnt dirge]

Should I run this while x is e and e is x?

[honest ridge]

Yeah its fine

[fair hound]

yea it would be fine

don't move E though

[burnt dirge]

Okay, if that doesnt work then ill swap the wires on the board too

[honest ridge]

Just that marlin will stop you once you reach 235 on X lmao

(extruder will stop at 235 lmao)

[fair hound]

if software endstops are enabled

its creality shit

@honest ridge my X axis on stockfirmware will happily ram itself into max X extent

and keep going

[burnt dirge]

i cant do it, ima just swap the wires on the board too

[fair hound]

yea don't lol

its not good

[honest ridge]

yeah...

[burnt dirge]

Wdyn

[honest ridge]

Just do the swap board wires

[fair hound]

^

[honest ridge]

running it in a stupid configuration is bound for confusion

[fair hound]

or collision

[honest ridge]

or both

[fair hound]

yep

[burnt dirge]

So should i just swap the wires on the board or no?

[honest ridge]

yes

[burnt dirge]

okay one moment

[fair hound]

@honest ridge see I'm used to working with CNC where you have no protections like this

actually the CNC I own right now doesn't even home

[honest ridge]

isn't that normal

[fair hound]

it just sets the zero where its at

yep

you just got to be careful as fuck

oh and also you have a lot more shit to ram into as well

fixtures

[honest ridge]

you can't really zero in a CNC machine to a default position

[fair hound]

parts

you can with limit switches

[honest ridge]

its stupid

[fair hound]

uhhh not necessarily

[honest ridge]

you have a block of aluminum, ya gotta home relative to that block of aluminium

[fair hound]

like if you have a vice in there at a known position and you are doing a multi step cnc

[honest ridge]

that's also fair

[fair hound]

but you just G93 at that point

which sets up a realative coordinant space basically

@honest ridge its actually pretty funny how I home realitive to a part on the CNC

its just 2 wires one to the part and one to the tool head

when they touch, it completes the circuit and goes "awwh the edge of this part is here"

do it for x, y, z

offset by tool radius

boom you got exact corner

this doesn't work on plastic but with the simple application of some conductive tape 😛

[burnt dirge]

okay both wires are swapped

Should i try the gcode again?

[fair hound]

yep

you should be good to home now too

[burnt dirge]

Okay I will try

[burnt dirge]

holy shit

the x axis cannot move at all

[honest ridge]

see

bad wire

[burnt dirge]

should i send vid?

[honest ridge]

yep

[fair hound]

and just to be sure you swapped the x wire to the e slot on the mobo and the extruder, and the e wire to the x slot on the mobo and x stepper motor?

[honest ridge]

the wires dying on direct drives are pretty common due to the fact that you're fatiguing it if you don't strain relief it

[burnt dirge]

Yes theyre both swapped, on the motherboard and on the actual parts

[fair hound]

okay yep thats the wire

@honest ridge actually lol thats why that board blew itself up

[honest ridge]

told ya its the wire

[fair hound]

saw it on r/ender subreddit

power wire melted and shorted lol

[honest ridge]

I had a similar direct drive problem, mine melted the wire too

but at least it didn't short

[fair hound]

on the ender 3's though at least mine

it has pretty decent strain relief

on the 3v3se

[honest ridge]

proper straining works wonders for direct drive

honestly though I just dabbed a lot of hot glue on the jst xh connector lmao

[burnt dirge]

idk about you guys but i dont think it should be doing that

[honest ridge]

yep, one of the stepper wires is not connected

[burnt dirge]

so would replacing the wire fix it?

[fair hound]

nope

[honest ridge]

yes

[fair hound]

I heard the stress sigh too lol

[burnt dirge]

im ngl it scared the shit out of me when it first did that

[honest ridge]

I suggest next time doing proper strain relief on your direct drive

[fair hound]

you could likely fix that wire if you are brave enough

so you don't have to buy a new one

[honest ridge]

its gonna be pain tho

[burnt dirge]

i have one

[fair hound]

oh

well there you go

[burnt dirge]

I have a spare one from my old extruder

[honest ridge]

usually these things die by the crimped connection

wait WTF?

[fair hound]

@honest ridge oh its not that bad to make stepper motor wires

[honest ridge]

NO wonder why

you didn't rewire the phases

[burnt dirge]

Wdym

[fair hound]

he said it worked previously though

so I don't think that is the issue

[honest ridge]

oh

[burnt dirge]

Yes it worked fine before

[honest ridge]

then thats fair, I assumed he didn't rewire the crimped connection with the new wire

[fair hound]

@burnt dirge if you ever wanna dig your heels in deep in this you might look up how stepper motors work

its actually pretty interesting

[burnt dirge]

I might actually do that, ive been pretty bored lately

[fair hound]

basically its coils in there that energize

causing the motor to step

[burnt dirge]

also, just to confirm it’s just wire, correct ?

[honest ridge]

yes

just wires

[fair hound]

only weird thing about different wires is the wires could be swapped around

[burnt dirge]

Okay great, im really grateful you guys helped me fix this.I wouldve never been able to figure this out myself

[fair hound]

to either run the motor forwards or backwards

[honest ridge]

if its running backwards, use software to fix it

[fair hound]

or do what I did and pull the connectors apart and set it up for fowards 😛

[honest ridge]

if its vibrating, you have to switch the phase wires

[fair hound]

its actually not that bad

basically use one of those phone sd card remover pins

push down on the pins and they pull right out

[burnt dirge]

wait

[honest ridge]

just don't overpush it, cause it will not be able to be set back up again

[burnt dirge]

if the board and the extruder both have female connectors, and this wire is one male one female, how am i supposed to connect it?

[honest ridge]

oof

then you gotta rewire then new stepper wire

[burnt dirge]

aw man, or i could just buy another wire

[honest ridge]

switch the wires in the middle to get them to work

[burnt dirge]

Ima dig around my wire connection a little further maybe ill find one

[honest ridge]

or wait

why not just cut the wire and connect it in the middle

[fair hound]

I wouldn't I'd keep those crimps on there

[honest ridge]

then order a backup wire when the time comes to replace

[fair hound]

as you don't have a way to make a new one

https://www.amazon.com/SOMELINE®-Connector-Connectors-Ratcheting-Crimper/dp/B0C8N8JBDC

btw

might be a good purchase

[honest ridge]

you have electrical tape @burnt dirge ?

[burnt dirge]

i figured out a way to do it, i found an old z-axis wired and i connected it to the female port of the other wire, now theyre both male, would this work?

[honest ridge]

thats okay too

[fair hound]

yea hopefully the polarity is right

but it will either spin backwards or fowards

[honest ridge]

if it spins backwards, ya gotta swap one of the pairs?

[burnt dirge]

One side will only fit into the board, and one side only fits into the extruder

[fair hound]

yea those are jstxh connectors

not the shitty fucking dupont connectors my BTT octopus came with for the screen

why in the fuck they did that?

idk

[honest ridge]

once you get it working, try to dab hot glue on the end where the JST-XH wires and crimps meet

that should work as a strain relief for a while

[fair hound]

you could print a strain relief bar too

[honest ridge]

do both

just to not let the wire inside the crimp flex and potentially unplugging itself

[burnt dirge]

Okay, I will i will try to replace the wire right now which may take me a bit but ill let yall know how it goes

[honest ridge]

if it vibrates, then you need to swap the wires 💀

[fair hound]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5683214

when you get it running of course

actually you got an older ender though

so this wouldn't work

[honest ridge]

I'd dab hot glue on that just to be sure tbh

and zip ties

[fair hound]

he likely doesn't have an extruder pcb

[honest ridge]

yeah he prolly doesn't

[fair hound]

which why this is not standard these days

idk

[honest ridge]

mine doesnt have one

[fair hound]

they are nice to have for cable managment and strain relief

[honest ridge]

running one wire, potentially ethernet, is better than just doing this stupid wire to the board tbh

[fair hound]

@honest ridge the CNC I'm gonna order a laser for so I can cut engrave etc, but also cure dry film and do custom pcb manufacture

you'd have to support canbus for that though

on both the mobo and the printhead

[honest ridge]

you dont need canbus for that 💀

[fair hound]

for serial data connections?

[honest ridge]

its literally just a PCB with shorted connections

[fair hound]

well you would need something

yea but you can't run ethernet though

[honest ridge]

you can

[fair hound]

I wouldn't

[honest ridge]

ethernet wire isn't gonna be a problem

at least the ones that aren't solid core apparently

[fair hound]

those wires are not rated for voltages the hotend pushes

[honest ridge]

speaker wires does do good wonders for those

[fair hound]

well voltages / amps

you can run though like IDE cables like they do there

hell you guys likely don't even know what an IDE cable is

you darn kids

[honest ridge]

I know fucking IDE

[fair hound]

shakes stick

[honest ridge]

those stupid fucking flat ribbon wires

[fair hound]

yea

[honest ridge]

those are quite the hassle tbh

[fair hound]

I guess I don't know how old or what generation you hail from

[honest ridge]

glad SATA got around throwing that out

[fair hound]

I'm personally a middle of the pack millenial

[honest ridge]

gen z here

2004 ish

[fair hound]

I was born in 89 :/

I'm old now

[honest ridge]

ha old

but nah, its prolly fine

[fair hound]

https://tenor.com/view/grampa-simpson-gif-19674842

[honest ridge]

meanwhile we're waiting for the dude to come back

[fair hound]

it seems like just yesterday I was in my 20's

[honest ridge]

💀 we will all grow old

also where this mf at 💀

rewiring shouldn't take this long

[burnt dirge]

Sorry im shit at it

Wire was a little short but itll have to do for now,

and then ill get a longer one

[honest ridge]

you can just cut the old "new" wire you know

[burnt dirge]

True

I might do that

[honest ridge]

then splice it with the new "old" one

[burnt dirge]

okay im going to try and print the cube

[honest ridge]

the X is working now?

[burnt dirge]

Yes

works as normal

I switched the old wires back, then got rid of the E and replaced it

[honest ridge]

hot glue time

hot glue those connectors at the end near the crimp wires

[burnt dirge]

I will, not yet though because I still want to make sure it was a wire issue, if so ill either need to order a new one, splice this one to make it longer

[honest ridge]

Oh, I mean just hot glue where the crimp rests

not the connection so you can still remove it when needed

[burnt dirge]

Ohhhh, I understand now thank you

[fair hound]

@honest ridge I'm trying to get this marlin firmware creality finally released for the 3v3se updated to newer marlin

[burnt dirge]

Im happy to say, my printer works perfectly now! all i have to do is get a little bit longer wire, but as of right now it all works!

thank you so much for the help