I am not sure if it is my main board that is gone or what, but my horizontal fan that runs parallel to the bed stopped working (and made a mess on subsequent prints). I found out it wasn’t running and removed it intending to replace it with a 5015 anyway. I thought I would test out the fan to be sure and using a 9v battery (has only 5 volts, used), the fan worked. So my question is now, why wasn’t it working with the Sv06? I don’t really know how to test the fan with the factory installed software on the LCD screen (if that is an option). Any suggestions?
I assume you haven’t klipperized your machine.
When you say
You mean the one mounted low on the extruder with the motor axis parallel to the Z axis of the printer?
If so that is the “part cooling fan”. Part cooling is controlled by the slicer settings and won’t run unless the gcode tells it to.
You should be able to manually set it under the [Temperature] menu on the display screen.
Do you happen to know the gcode reference I should look for? I will check on the cura slicer, thanks. I have never turned it off, but I guess these things can happen.
I don’t remember Cura that well but Orca puts the cooling parameters in the FILAMENT profile. Have you added or changed filaments in Cura?
The G-codes are
Thank you for the replies. Is there a way I can just test the fan to run and not to print?
You can control it from the attached screen. Click [Temperature] then [Fan Speed]
Also you could pull the filament (leave it in the runout switch) and load one of the presliced sample files from Sovol. If you don’t have the USB drive you can download them from the wiki
Ok it seems like my fan speed is normal, so I am going to try again and see what happens. I have the fan hanging from the cable and not attached. I am going to change the initial fan speed to 25% and see if that turns it on right away even before printing. The side fan seems to come on when I turn the machine on , but not the parallel to the bed fan which is the issue.
Here are my settings : the fan is not spinning as I am testing. I don’t know if I am doing it right. I am going to run it without filament like you suggest.
Using the control knob…Prepare/Temperature/Fan Speed.
You have the fan set to 25% until you hit 150mm..
Use my setting from the post above.
I set it that way hoping it would turn on while in a higher Z position, but I will test again with your settings.
It’s the cooling fan, it will only run when it needs too…it has nothing to do with the height of a print.
Your over thinking it…JMO
I wasn’t overthinking it. My prints were gumming up the nozzle because they were not being cooled and solidifying. I had to remove a heap of PLA because of this so I believed the issue was the cooling fan.
This is not from the cooling fan, it from something else.
I print with ASA & PETG with the fan off..never had this issue.
It could be Z-Offset, leaking nozzle or heatbreak, nozzle temp too high, print not sticking to the bed & sticking to the nozzle…JMO