<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Am 09.09.2013 um 21:11 schrieb Marius Kintel <<a href="mailto:marius@kintel.net">marius@kintel.net</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">o Is the extruder stepper holding torque (to check if it's actually powered) ? I think it should be holding torque at all times when the machine is running</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></blockquote>yes, it does<br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">o The extruder could refuse to move if the temperature of the nozzle isn't high enough. Could you verify that the temperature reading is good and that the nozzle heats properly? A very common failure mode of Thing-o-matics is that the heating resistors on the extruder burn out.</span></blockquote></div>today, i did not heat the extruder at all, but last time i did heat it to approx. 225°C, and the extruder did not work…<div>maybe the temperature was too low?<br><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div></div></body></html>