Hi all, I received my CTC Blitzer about 6 days ago and hva literaly put 101 ours on it so far. I love the thing. But I upgraded to Sailfish 7.7 and now when I print, it acts very strange and constantly hits its limits with loud clicking. What it does print is on a 45 degree angle on the XY plane. I thought this was a software on my pc issue, but RepG, Makerbot desktop and Octoprint all do the same. I also played with the jog feature in the software and on the actual machine and when jogging in the X direction, the print head would move in both the X and Y. Jogging in the Y direction moves both X and -Y. I’m totally lost on this
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Alex_9
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Hi, your CTC Bizer printer is a standard Cartesian motion platform. Is there any chance your firmware is set up for a Core X-Y motion platform? This requires 2 motors to move in either X or Y axis, and would cause this symptom.
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In RepG (40r33) it shows up as Clone R1 which I assume to mean a replicator 1 clone. I have attached the “About this machine” from RepG.
Perry_1
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Well, you probably want to choose Replicator 1 as your printer. Thats what you have a clone of.
IF you did not read the saifish manual before you upgraded, and did not record your tool offsets, etc., manually, you need to read the manual, and THEN start over.
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Are your belts all tight?
btw, the best choice of printer to use when installing sailfish is the flashforge creator, not the replicator - that enables the printer to power HBP and extruder at the same time, which the real replicator cannot do.
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Update again the firmware and make such to not choose core XY version
Thanks for the tip. I just updated to the replicator and it’s working. Ill try this next week. (Flashing this thing is a real pain in the tukuas.)
After looking into what a Core X-Y machine is, now I understand what you are saying and agree that somehow the R1 clone set up as a core X-Y. I flashed it with replicator 1 and all is good now. Thanks for your interest.
