The delivery just arrived… with a bonus…
Taxes and management fees >_<
That’s a whooping 15€ extra for a $0.01 order …
Refused the delivery for now as the mailman was unable to explain or show the detail of those…
Turns out that, for our local delivery company, 20% (local tax rate) of 1$ (because you know, why not round everything to the upper whole number after all while we’re at it) equals 7€… uh…
Contacted the support, paid the taxes online (cheaper…) and it will probably show up again tomorrow -_-
Not that I wanna be the guy who says “hey my free gift isn’t free, that’s unacceptable”, rather that I don’t like giving money - in cash, mind you, because he has no electronic payment possibility- to a stranger without knowing what I’m paying for
I had a post one or two years back about the changes in EU tax laws (or was it just Germany). We used to be able to get stuff below 25€ tax free. They changed it that everything gets taxed, no matter the value. They also decided that the Deutsche Post (or in your case your carrier) is allowed to do the customs formalities for you automatically, then deliver the package to you and add taxes (obviously) plus 6€ fees for you to pay. You had to explicitly opt out of this service, which I did. Not gonna get robbed in broad daylight… I now have to go to the customs to pick up those packages. Nowadays it is possible though for the seller to prepay taxes, Aliexpress does on packages automatically for instance, it‘s included in all prices you pay.
Germany and it´s laws. I learned few weeks back that I now need to pay tax so on could recycle the carton box my customer´s goodies ship in! How was I suposed to know as non German resident.
When you switch to polling or 1+ second report times you should have no issues in STA mode.
AP mode is currently the supported means of use.
STA mode is being worked on right now and several pull requests are now in the development branch. Jamie is like a bloodhound looking for bugs in STA mode. At the same time if you look at the terminal there should have been memory warnings before any crash.
But here in France, “La Poste” won’t let you opt out of the automatic clearance “service” That’s 5€ you’ll never get back >_<
The most madening thing though, is that, if you pay directly to the mailman, that’s 2€ extra… for a lesser service, as the man won’t take credit card (can’t believe they let the man run around town with maybe 100-200€ in cash, no recipe, no cash register…)
Paying online is cheaper, but they won’t send you an email for you to use the service, it’s your responsibility to go to the website you didn’t even know existed (even the mailman doesn’t know of it…) and pay your taxes you didn’t know you had to pay…
And, to top up all of this, the taxes are due on the merchandise and shipping cost
The nice thing is that, as the recipient, you sometimes don’t know what those costs are…
Well… enough bickering… I won’t complain I have to pay 15€ for a full featured control board
But I don’t really know how things work out for real orders, maybe @vicious1 has to fill some kind of form when shipping to europe so that the customer at least won’t pay thos extra management fees?
Yeah, the memory warnings keep showing up whatever I do though…
One thing I noticed: I made the default interval 1500ms in the preference file, it does show up at 1500 when I reload the UI, but the terminal says “setting reporting time to 50ms” anyway…
I need to click on “none” and then back again to “auto” for the setting to be applied correctly
Exactly what are you doing to get a memory warning? Uploading a file, jogging the machine, running a CNC file or a laser file, or literally nothing just sitting idle and you get an issue?
Like I said STA mode is not really what I want to support right now since I know there are several fixes coming very soon. So not really worth rediscovering issues…but In normal CNC use you should have no issues with memory with a report of 1000ms+ or even better polling at 3s+.
You might want to try using my preference file to help with that setting not sticking… I will upload new ones in a hour or so.
I’ll update them then, that was already what I uploaded
Anyway concerning support, at the moment I’m using an MKS TinyBee so I’m not expecting any
This should be pretty similar on the jackpot though…
I’ll re-check the conditionq and let you know if the warnings pop up without doing anything, most of the time if I’m not actively using the machine I’m not checking the UI
Using AP mode would be less convenient but if that’s the only way until Jamie finds a fix, I can work with that ^^
This was a last minute check yesterday, garage air was 95F and this had run for an hour plus with the lid on. The temp difference from the middle drivers to the outer two was only a few degrees C. The ESP seemed hotter but no good temp reading because it is too shiny, I will have to put some tape on it to get a reading.
The 2209’s thermal throttle at 90C I believe so this is still plenty acceptable, but…I think I will also make a case with a fan mount.
Some of the other pics show the surrounding temps at 31.8C or 89F.
Generally I make a file, and run it. It is a little different during testing I was trying everything I could to crash or cause errors. So normally I would probably directly upload a file or use the SD, but then really I want to be in front of the machine driving it to the starting location and running the file from my phone or tablet. I really don’t see a reason to connect to it just to wirelessly upload a file when I can walk it over on the other side of the garage.
As long as you are using 3.7.5, (latest release as of now):
Do not use auto-reporting, even with a longer timeout. Use only polling.
Do not use debug message level.
Do not enable expansion serial port (just me but necessary for pendant).
Do not connect with more than one web browser.
I don’t know exactly what the conditions are for Station mode or AP mode to be good. Lately I’ve been using station mode on an isolated network to eliminate variables, but I need to look again at AP mode or station mode on a noisy network like my home network.
Autoreporting even with a long timeout has a chance of hanging. Longer intervals lower the chance but don’t eliminate it. (The hang is not related to throughput but is more like catching the controller at a bad time.)
Wouldn’t it be an idea to adapt the case in such a way that the case and lid are standardized and you just print an insert with the hole pattern you need for the needed board. Personally I would love to have a remix of Dougs trimmed case with a 120mm (running this now and my drivers are almost at ambient temp now) fan in the lid and room for two or three buttons (stop pause resume) in the case. A standardized case with swappable controller tray would have saved me a lot of printing time.
I have a parametric CAD, linked in the printed parts section, so instead of printing a giant SKR or Octopus case and then an adapter, change a few numbers and I get a tiny Jackpot case.
You mean… you didn’t even actially tested it before shipping the product!!!
Pretty much like any disaster recovery or failover plan in IT then
Maybe publishing an “universal” case would help the cad-impaired?
Just the case you already have designed, but with the max reasonable dimension (fit pretty common boards, but leave alone giant octopus boards) and an insert/frame with slots covering a wide variety of hole spacings included?
Then we could just re-design and publish simple inserts for boards as they pop up, and people with more polished cad-skill could still customize the whole case
It is easier for me to release the parametric CAD and then when people have a board I did not already publish a case for then they can. I can’t easily make a case for a board I do not have or support officially.
I know that takes an extra step but I prefer to make custom fit boxes and am not very interested in a oversized universal. There will always be a board or screen that does not fit. Or the fan is on the wrong side. I think my time is best spent making custom things that are fit well?
Then again, I’d find pretty much “fair” that you just ship and maintain cases for the supported boards, rambo and Jackpot, and leave the rest for us to sort out (and it’s very easy with hte f3d file)
Less work for you, and it encourages new user to just stick with the recomandation an buy a Jackpot or Rambo from the store, kind of a “fair reward” if you ask me
Only cad file I found was the board its self and the one for the LR3. If I need one for the Primo Ill have to make my own at this point? Just wanting to make sure I didn’t miss it somewhere lol. Your designs are WAY better than mine LOL.
I now have to go to the customs to pick up those packages. Nowadays it is possible though for the seller to prepay taxes, Aliexpress does on packages automatically for instance, it‘s included in all prices you pay.
That’s 5€ you’ll never get back >_<
