Difficulty
Moderate
Steps
23
Time Required
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Download the Marlin firmware depending on your configuration:
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24V Heated Bed
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MIC-6 Heated Bed
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Copy the firmware.bin file over to the micro SD card.
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Insert the SD card into your control board.
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Download the displays firmware here.
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Copy the files onto the SD card.
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Insert the SD card into the display.
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Double check all of your wiring with the wiring diagram.
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In particular, your wiring of the power supply and heated bed.
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Plug the power cable into the back of the printer.
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Power on with the switch on the fron of the base.
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Powering on for the first time should result in the following:
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The Touch Screen Display should power on and begin updating.
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The Hotend cooling fan should spin.
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The electronics fan should spin.
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The LED's should light up.
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Once the touch screen has been updated remove the SD card.
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Delete the contents of the SD card, it should now be ready to use with your printer.
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Thermistors should read room temperature.
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You may find that the hotend thermistor is a little off, that's OK as it's a high temp thermistor it may be slightly inaccurate at temps below 100C.
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Before starting, make sure that none of the endstops are being triggered.
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Click on Menu
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Select terminal.
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Send an M119 command.
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You should receive back that X and Y enstops are open.
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The Z probe should also be open, and the filament sensor should be triggered (as there's no filament loaded).
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Move the tool head to the bottom left as shown.
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Both the X and Y endstops should be triggered.
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In the terminal send the M119 command again.
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You should receive the following back with the X and X endstops reporting as triggered.
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Use a piece of filament to check that the sensor is working.
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Sending M119 should return back OPEN.
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Place a metal object underneath the probe.
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The LED on the probe should now light up.
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With the metal object still under the probe, send the M119 command again, and it should return as TRIGGERED.
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In the menu screen, go to Heat/Fan
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Click on Fan
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Set fan to Full
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Both part cooling fans should be spinning.
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Switch the fans off when done.
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In the menu go to Movement
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Click on Move
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Set the motion increments to 10mm.
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Use the buttons to move the axes around and confirm that the printer is making the desired movements.
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Go to the Movement menu
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Click on Home
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Home X and Y
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The printer should home those axes.
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Before starting, place the flexplate onto the heated bed, if you've not already done so.
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Before homing the Z-axis, manually raise the platform to meet the tool carriage at the centre of the print platform.
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Before being able to move the carriage by hand, you will need to disable the stepper motors. This button can be found in the movement menu (Disarm All).
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The platform should trigger the probe (red light comes on) before the tip of the nozzle touches the flexplate.
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With the above confirmed, home the Z-axis from the dispay.
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From the home screen click on the hotend.
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Heat the hotend to 220C.
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With the hotend hot you can send an extrude command to check the extruder.
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Orbiter Extruder:
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Load: Turn Clockwise
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Unload: Turn Ant-Clcokwise
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With the hotend hot, hot tighten the nozzle.
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Do this using two pliers. Use one to hold the heater block, use the other to tighten the nozzle.
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Be careful doing this, the hotend is hot enough to cause burns!
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Heat the bed to 70C.
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MIC-6 NOTE: The printer reads the temperature of the silicone heater, not the platform. Therefore, even though the printer may report back that it has reached its temp, it will take approx 5-10 min for the platform surface to actually reach that temp.
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