Keep getting a change filament error message on my CR10 S5. I weigh my filament spools before printing, so I don't need the sensor and was wondering if there's a way to just disable it completely.
#Disabling CR-10 S5 filament sensor
sweet cradle
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queen quarry
You should be good to just power off, unplug and power on. I did that when I had my Ender 5 plus and it went on printing without complaining about the sensor being unplugged.
I know that's not in the CR-10 family, but worth trying that first to see if you have any issues.
young wave
I had an issue with it on the Sovol SV01 and I just stuck a strand of filament in it, made sure it registered and taped it's off so it couldn't move. Haven't had an issue since
sweet cradle
I have it taped down, and it's lit up like it's detecting filament
Pretty sure it's a wiring issue, but the sensor itself isn't useful enough to me to warrant going through the hassle of fixing it.
young wave
I fought with mine for over 2 weeks and finally just took my filament and moved it all around and it was tripping a bunch I think the style of sensor it is, is very faulty. If it's new I would get in touch with the manufacturer and request a replacement
sweet cradle
I just want to disable the sensor. I weigh my spools before printing, so I don't really need it at all.
queen quarry
did you try just unplugging it?
sweet cradle
Yeah, it just kept going into change filament mode when I tried starting a print
shut bear
Should be able to turn it off in the firmware
sweet cradle
Should be able to turn it off in the firmware
How would I do that tho?
queen quarry
When going through the process of flashing the firmware, you can go into the configuration.h file and undefine the filament runout sensor
Here's Frank's vid on messing with that stuff https://youtu.be/RpGl49E2fqo
And here's a thingiverse thread where it seems like they were having a similar issue https://www.thingiverse.com/groups/creality-cr-10/forums/general/topic:43462
