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Printer Update

This week will be a brief update on how my attempts to fix my poor little printer are going.

So last week I had tried, different materials, changing settings and changing to brand new nozzles and none of these things made a blind bit of difference leading me to believe that the problem was a little more serious than just a blocked nozzle.

I settled on the most obvious explanation; there was something wrong with the heating element on the extruder head, either with the sensor or the heater itself.

I had one more thing I could try before going to Cetus customer service and asking for help, I had previously had an issue with the extruder motor which wasn't turning properly and upon talking to Cetus, they sent me a new ribbon cable and PCB for the printer.  As it turned out it was a fault with the ribbon cable, causing the motor to not be able to draw enough power so I after that I had a spare PCB.

I thought maybe the fault was with the board itself so on Sunday I got my screwdriver out and swapped out the boards.




Now I really know nothing about electronics but it wasn't that difficult of a process, I just made sure I took a photo before I started in case I forgot where everything went!

Following the swap I printed a 2x size maker coin which takes about 2 hours and it seemed to have worked out OK.  There was a little issue on the top surface and there was a bit of extruder clicking part way through and I was hoping it was a one off.


However another print the next day has confirmed that no, it did not work.

Sad Face

I have now reached out to Cetus for support.

Hopefully something a little more cheery on top of a positive update next week guys!

Thanks for reading.

Troez.


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