Hi

A couple of days ago the hotend wouldn’t heat up and i got a couple of errorcodes/warnings in the display. The bed heats up just fine, so i ordered a new hotend parts (heater, thermistor and a new aluminum block). Changed all of this, but still the same error. I can se that the thermistor works because it changes values in the display when touching the thermistor-end. Any good ideas why the heater doesn’t heat?

  • UncleStewart@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    3 months ago

    I’m a totally noob in the 3D printing scene. My brother has a Biqu B1 and I’ve printed some small things on his printer. Found a used Biqu B1 for sale for about $80. Yeah, not good research from my side… But, I’ve printed a well printed fucktopus before it died…

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      3 months ago

      $80 makes it reasonable. At normal MSRP… Ender.

      Good luck and make upgrades slowly and as needed.

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      3 months ago

      Honestly $80 sounds like an absolute bargain, you straight up can’t build one yourself for that price, a mainboard and like 2-3 steppers would go over that and everything I’ve seen about that printer says it’s a very capable, budget friendly option. It looks like that’s using a btt mainboard which I totally swear by, straight up shorted a fan header on an octopus pro and it’s still chugging along just fine, anecdotally they’re pretty hard to kill.

      I’d totally check your wiring before replacing a board, a break or bad crimp could totally be your culprit here, and those are a heck of a lot less work to remedy, thermal protection does totally get tripped if there’s an intermittent fault with the thermistor (including cabling), I had it happen on a prusa where it’d kick out but not have anything obvious temp wise on the display, only noticeable in a temp plot.