Testing which part of your printer is failing. Any ideas?

Arnoldas · 2015-04-21T16:10:24.000Z

I’m sure many of you have already faced that moment where you don’t really know if one of your printer’s part is failing.

For example when our Ultimaker original went down - our nozzle got burnt - and we weren’t sure what parts actually needed to be replaced so @Linda_Zouad tried to test the printer’s thermocouple with the material we had which was just an Arduino used as a Multimeter, It wasn’t the easiest way to do that , but with what we had it worked out!

maybe you guys can share some tips on how to do this easily on your printers?

pmsimard · 2015-04-21T20:13:47.000Z

A good starting point when your prints are failing:

support.3dverkstan.se

A visual Ultimaker troubleshooting guide - 3DVerkstan Knowledge Base

On this page you'll be able to visually try to match the problems you are having with your print and hopefully find enough information so that you can eliminate

gr5org · 2015-04-21T20:37:20.000Z

Well if the thermocouple reads 20C on power up then it’s probably fine. And if you heat up the head and the temperature starts increasing then that is also a good sign that it is working. You could put the thermocouple in a plastic bag and push that into boiling water and it should read around 90 to 100C.

3D_Luetolf · 2015-04-22T19:48:17.000Z

I just replace the questioned part so I can find out if it’s really faulty.

Arnoldas · 2015-04-23T09:14:26.000Z

Hey thanks! Now that’s creative! I love it!