[captfuture]

Good news -> My Makelangelo 5 clone works (kind of)
– The steps per revolution have been wrong
– I forgot to send D11 before using it
– The java software is just a miracle and does things oddly (i use some nightly because on all others the jsslib crashes upon connect

I have one important question and could not find the answer after reading almost anything i could find.
How long are the standard timing belts (and how are they measured…)
In the initial config there is 1025mm but how is this measured?
-> endstop plate to hook?
-> just the belt?
-> endstop plate to middle of gondola?
…
…

currently i can not get it right -> all tests are just off dimensions
(skewing, bending… whatever)

Thanks a lot for your help Dan
I’ll keep on contributing (winter ist coming and we expect heavy snow and there is a second covid lockdown anyway here in austria)

[captfuture]

Good Morning,

I just wanted to help and because I did not see a bug on your side so far (the version just does not have an option for local config in the zip package but says it does…)

The other things I need to check by moving hardware around (and probably there is a bug on sw side… yet still to find out 😀 … I just was searching for a hint…)

I will check the Version after donating 10CDN and contributing to the project as well.

Cheers Chris

[captfuture]

Good morning,
after having a similar problem with my Makelangelo 5 build yesterday I reply here instead of opening a new topic.
First of all I want to thank Dan and all participants for having created such a great piece of hard and software.

My Machine is a Makelangelo 5 with a RUMBA board, a Reprap Smart LCD and 4988 drivers
(4A Powersupply, 200steps/rev Motors)

When using the latest release: https://github.com/MarginallyClever/Makelangelo-firmware/releases/tag/9.2.0 (which says that there is a local_config.h introduced… wich definitely is not 😉 )

-> Find home does its thing right, moves weights uo till the endstops and then seems to wait for input.
-> Moving motors via rotary dial does not work (only one mm forward and backward are executed)
When i am connecting the pc software and send a drawing (just a fibonacci test) the Makelangelo asks to confirm the inserted black pen on the display and then it is just stuck… locked up and nothing happens any more. a reset is needed in order to get it responding again.

When using the latest Master from Github i get the same strange issue. and something more.
-> Find home does its thing right, moves weights uo till the endstops and then something strange happens -> the motors ,kind of “drift” backwards slowly.

I don’t know what happens here, unfortunately the verbose serial debug option does not do anything after activating (the compile complains that no motornames are defined, but this is an easy fix)

Can some wrong plug cause these issues? I am trying to switch every important component in the next days (other display, other rumba board…) for testing

Do you have any hints?

Cheers Chris

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