SW VA V5 with a DragonBurner, DragonCutter and Filament sensors on the toolhead

Lol. Darn widscreen pictures! :rofl:

Nope! On the back. My V4 has it all on the bottom and I like the compactness of it. Admittedly it is a pain to work on…

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Well, I thought I was readdy to put power to thjngs and start programming. Apparently my LRS-350 power supply had other ideas. On the bright side, my power switch is sexy…

Pictures soon!

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I have to say, having the electronics out like that would be quite a nice way to work on them. But I don’t think many cables are long enough by default.

I often have a hard time making cables and electronics compact and hidden. So I like the aesthetic of doing the reverse and making them obvious.


Have some flashing lights! Still waiting on the new power supply but realized i could do most of it with just a USB cable.

Katapult flashed to both M8P and EBB36. Klipper to the M8P. Need the actual CAN buss up and running to flash Klipper to the toolhead.

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As promised. Sexy power button!

Successfully homed x and y today. Need to design a mount for the BIQU Microprobe and get it installed.

Note: pretty much all of the pins are different from 1.1 to 2.0 on the M8P board. Had a few issues because i started with my V4 config.

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Found the cool feet on Amazon. Designed to isolate speakers. 4MM bolt and hole so a couple t Nuts and we are in business!

Cleaned off its space on the desk and set it up. I have the microprobe installed and have successfully homes all axes and done a Z Tilt.

Having an issue with the stepper brakes in that they don’t work. I am concerned that the lag between the power supply losing power and the time it takes to discharge cause them not to engage fast enough.

I have added the multipin and the brakes work great with the power off. Love some input into what I am doing wrong.

I am setting the printer.cfg up to use included files. In the process I discovered that save config only changes stuff in the printer.cfg and not an included file. Example: My EBB36.cfg file has all the items that connect to the EBB. This includes the hotend. When you do a PID tune and click save config, it will not update. I tried moving the PID parameters over to the printer.cfg file but it still wont work.

It looks like I have about 11mm to the right and left of the bed. This will allow me to use the full bed but put the actuator for the filament cutter at the front left of the machine and it wont interfere with the rest of the bed. Also that space will leave me with a place to put a nozzle wiper and poop bucket!

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Quick Update!

New Brake board came today. I checked it with a meter and all the coils are shorted when not powered.

Installed and this is SUCH a great change from the slamming bed I have dealt with on the V4!

Worth every penny!

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Hi Mike, great build! I am working on mine at the moment, and was wondering if you are willing to share your core files adapted to the DragonBurner?

Thanks!

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Your cutter is lever actuated with a mounted attachment?

I have a servo on mine and it is way too big. Photos if your cutter or a vid of it in action would be if interest.

That is great it works!

Working on the lever part today. As soon as I get it worked out and implemented i will document!

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Happy to share. Will get them posted up to Printables soon with the modification you have to do to CAD to accommodate it.

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Okay,

Sequence:

Move to the start point
Retract filament to shorten the stub
Move forward slowly to cut the filament
Move back to start point
Push filament in to move stub back into nozzle
Retract filament to above the extruder.

When the TradRack is installed and configured the two filament sensor switches will figure into the sequence.

Edit: realized I did not respond to @orob

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Is it just me or was your extruder skipping quite a bit in that clip?

Probably! Go figure it started when I filmed it!

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@Naralu here you go. Please feel free to ask me any questions. You SHOULD make modifications to your frame to accommodate this.

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Almost seemed like your feed rate might have been too high in your macro. Hard to say for sure though

I turned it down. Had it at f1000 so I went to f500. Should help!

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@Jonathjon said he couldn’t wait to see a V5 print with a DragonBurner…

I think it is time for a serial number…

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Man that is awesome! I cant wait to switch my V4 over!


I am not sure how these compare but this is what I got when I ran my resonance compensation.

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