KevMag

Would any of you wizards be willing to tell/show me the slickest way to route you cables to the stepper motors on a V1.6? Do you bring them out through the hex holes in rear Bottom skirts?

And the bed wiring also.

What secures V 1.6 top upper deck panel?

Here is my second Voron on it's first print. Here is my experimental "Z rod syncher". I don't mind the dual Z stepper motors but on my first Voron they would become out-of-synch quite often. This stops that and by using the 60 tooth pulleys there is very little tension on the belt.

The default setting for the extruder maximum feedrate in Marlin and in the Configuration.h file for Marlin in the Voron Github repository is 25mm/sec. In your slicer you can set the value higher than that but it will not exceed 25mm/sec. If you want to actually retract at a higher speed than 25mm/sec you need to adjust your firmware (Marlin, I don't know about the others) or adjust it from the LCD and save to EEPROM. That belted extruder really sings when you set it to an actual 50mm/sec.

Edit: spelling

I finished my Voron 3 days ago and it is fantastic. I also have 3 prusa style printers. One of these printers has been great at times and terrible at other times. It's time for that headache to go away. Voron #2 parts are on the way. I had extra hardware and things from the first build and my headache printer so there are not a lot of parts to order. I have ordered nothing from China (I love you Amazon) so most of the parts should be here soon after the printed parts are done.

Got my Voron up and running but my direct drive extruder retraction settings for my other printers are not cutting it. Could someone please share some ballpark retraction settings for Simplify3D?

I printed the STLs from the GitHub 1.5 XY gantry folder. Some of my parts don't look like the ones that I have seen in RCF's video for the V1.5 X gantry update from 3 months ago on Youtube, and another video is from 4 months ago. My hotend_mount_v6 has no holes to hold the springs or tabs on the x_carriage_frames to depress the springs. Is there a third version? If there is a third version (latest GitHub STLs??) how do I assemble it/where do the spring(s) go?

The BOM states the build plate dimensions as 9". The drawing shows the hole spacing front-to-back but not left to right. With the holes drilled 7mm from each side that would make the distance between centers to be 214.6mm. The design of the Voron is so elegant that I consider that a very odd dimension. What is the distance between hole centers laterally (left to right) for the standard size printer?

I saw a reference to the TMC2100 stepper drivers that states that the heatsinks should not be mounted with thermal compound but only with non-conductive tape. I really dislike the stick-on heatsinks but don't want to fry the chip if I use compound (Arctic Silver).

I am wanting to use the direct belted extruder (or the titan mount) but cannot see a way to mount it on the V1.5 gantry. Do I need to use the V1.0 X carriage? I realize that it partially defeats the purpose of the corexy design (low mass moving parts) but I would like to use the direct extruder.

Also, if I go with the bowden version what is the thread size of the PTFE coupler on the extruder body?

Edit: Added question.

The label on Hatchbox wood filament says 175-250C. That sounds a little broad to me, especially since it is PLA based. What temps have people had good results with?

Edit: I have not received my filament yet so I can't test but would like a reasonable range to start with.

I have seen multiple posts on the need of your layer height to be equal to a multiple of the Z change on one full step of the stepper motor. It seems that they all assume that your Z=0 is going to fall on a full step. What if your Z=0 falls between full steps? On most machines you have a 1:16 chance of Z=0 falling on a full step.

I am looking for a good cable chain for my hotend and fan (2) wiring. Any suggestions on a good model?

When dragging a STL file into the OctoPrint (vers. 1.2.10 and 1.2.11) window the SD card shows uninitialized and also does not show files already transferred to the SD card. It transfers locally fine. I have tried multiple SD cards formatted as MS-DOS FAT. My other 3 printers (Marlin firmware) copy to the SD card fine. Anyone else having this problem? Any help would be appreciated.

I already have 2 printers but after so many recommendations for the Wanhao/Monoprice I bought one. Could someone please give me a list of mods that I should perform so that I can get those ready.