I am very new to 3d printer building. I bought a kit from a Canadian business who sold me a kit for the Prusa i3 Zrib.
Background on my experience leading to my question:
After building it without any real manual from the business, I got it to start extruding and printing. On my first attempt i got halfway through a small test print and it stalled. Since that point It always shifted the print after 30 minutes or so and I’ve scrapped about 15+ attempts. I researched and discovered this is caused by improperly set trimpots.
The original control board
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which has no label as to a model or manufacturer has super small trimpots and small heat-sinks glued on the driver chips, some overlapping the trimpot connector to test voltage. I could not look up and DIY learn the preferred method of tuning and as i was testing my micrometer shorted the not-modular driver chip and left my machine with no Y axis…
The company i bought from, I feel, has ripped me off, but I’d rather put my energy into getting this machine to work properly than bash a crappy kit purveyor.
I bought a replacement board, the MKS Gen v1.4 board off ebay for fifty bucks but it will not show anything but blocks on the LED. I had to cut notches in the LED display plugs on the board as the pins are backwards…
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I don’t mind DIY, but I like having some kind of way to find my next plan of attack. I’ve had this Prusa i3 Zrib sit in my workspace for 3 months now untouched because buying the kit was a nightmare experience. I would have bought from Prusa direct but i wanted to buy in my own country. I now regret trying to support a local 3d printing business.
Regardless, I got the kit for a learning experience and I’ve learned a tonne through this, but now I’d like to move forward.
Can someone help me determine if this MKS Gen v1.4 card will work with the rest of a Prusa 13 ZRib kit and if not, tell me the exact board that came with my kit so i can source and buy it. I’d truly like to keep learning and enjoy 3d printing. Close to a year now and still not one successful print. Not a successful solo venture.
