Print Stopped

Support&troubleshooting
#1

I had a weird thing just happen to me. 

I was printing the second part of a print and while I usually place the objects on the right or front side of the bed, I used the left side this time. 

I checked on it and was printing beautifully. Then I went back when it should've been done-1.5 hrs later, and the printer was in idle on the print object. ( it didn't go back to go position or drop down...it just stopped. It wasn't trying to extrude so the nozzle wasn't clogged.

I figured it was just a corrupted Zcode somehow and got a pause inserted in it but it didn't go to home position. 

So I just redid the file and started it up again. Started perfect and doing well but will see if it was just that position-as the cable was just redone last week and prints perfectly. 

Thought maybe someone else had this error before and knew what happened.

Cheers and thanks

#2

Well I figured it out. It was a real world glitch. lol Apparently our power flickered real quick and I didn't notice it so it shut the machine down and back on quick which stopped the print.

It's always good to know what happened. 

Sorry for the wasted space. lol Cheers

#3

slap yourself and we are even :)

given that the wattage of the printer is not high a cheap UPS is a nice solution for such cases and anyway very long power outages are rare and it does not always worth it investing to also cover these few occasions

#4

I have mine on a UPS as well.. Just a small APC 900. Not intended for long outage..