{"id":4546,"date":"2011-09-10T21:07:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T19:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2014-03-30T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:27:35","slug":"turku-shooting-the-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/turku-shooting-the-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the RepRap #8 \u2014 Shooting the trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having set up the studio space here in gallery Titanik I&#8217;m once again struggling with the electronics of the RepRap. I got the board back from Traumflug \u2014\u00a0in addition to fixing it he&#8217;d also made it shiny! \u2014\u00a0and he had successfully used it to move motors and such, so the board is OK. But when I plug in my Pololus and motors and PSU, nothing much happens. Frustration runs high with this one. I have two videos of the troubleshooting below:<\/p>\n<p>[x_video_embed no_container=&#8221;true&#8221;]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28757756?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>[\/x_video_embed]<\/p>\n<p>[x_video_embed no_container=&#8221;true&#8221;]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28851467?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>[\/x_video_embed]<\/p>\n<p>In the first video I have a 300W PSU hooked in to the board, and in the second video I try to use a DVD as a load resistor, after recommendation from Traumflug. Spoiler alert: In neither of the videos does the board move the motors, nor give me a reading on the meter. The next step will be to to add a proper load resistor onto the PSU instead of the DVD player\u2014\u00a0this is slightly more involved than just jamming a bunch of \u00bcW resistors in there, so I&#8217;ll have to do some research on it. The following links might give a clue:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Convert-a-Computer-ATX-Power-Supply-to-a-Lab-Power-Supply\">How to Convert a Computer ATX Power Supply to a Lab Power Supply<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web2.murraystate.edu\/andy.batts\/ps\/POWERSUPPLY.HTM\">Desktop power supply from a PC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An alternative to this would be to get a totally new power supply. I know that people have been using Xbox 360 bricks for power, and I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a crapload of alternatives which would work. I&#8217;m just hesitant to give up on the only part of the RepRap which I&#8217;ve actually scrounged myselft \u2014\u00a0The PSU was going to be thrown out with a bunch of computer trash at Chalmers, and I thought I&#8217;d give it a second chance at usefulness. Not that this project lacks DIY spirit and such, but you catch my drift; Ideally you&#8217;d be building the whole printer out of garbage and driftwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having set up the studio space here in gallery Titanik I&#8217;m once again struggling with the electronics of the RepRap. I got the board back from Traumflug \u2014\u00a0in addition to fixing it he&#8217;d also made it shiny! \u2014\u00a0and he had successfully used it to move motors and such, so the board is OK. But when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/turku-shooting-the-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doing the RepRap #8 \u2014 Shooting the trouble<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,7],"tags":[1524,1523,537,1522,1393,1509,1497],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-video","tag-gen7","tag-load-resistor","tag-project","tag-psu","tag-reprap","tag-troubleshooting","tag-turku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}