I recently bought a used SV08 off the sovol ebay store. I assembled and performed initial calibrations, violently printed the speed benchy, and did what any sane person would do next:
Set up a 7 hour print right before leaving for work and going about my day without a care in the world.
When I returned home I found that the print had failed about 30-40% through. The screen joyously reported that the print was complete. Apparently I had a pretty bad clog. After going through the motions of clearing the clog, I attempted to extrude some filament and still had no success. The extruder was turning but no filament was being extruded. I tried clearing the clog again, this time removing the hot end from the toolhead, preparing to ramrod the filament out of the thing. Out of curiosity, I attempted to extrude 10mm again with no hot end in the way, but my extruder was now immobile.
I am in contact with the seller (sovol official–I hope) but in the meantime I bought a new toolhead, as I have been following Teaching Tech on youtube and would like to eventually build a toolhead changer.
Now, I hate throwing parts at a problem, if it was my car I would thoroughly troubleshoot the circuit to verify before buying a part, because sometimes you buy the part that broke only to find out that there was an issue in the circuit after burning out your new part.
My question in this case: is there anything I should verify on the printer before plugging in my new toolhead and letting the smoke out?
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!