{"id":7,"date":"2020-05-20T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-07T18:55:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T18:55:44","slug":"ord-bot-hadron-build-part-3-completing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/2020\/05\/ord-bot-hadron-build-part-3-completing.html","title":{"rendered":"Ord Bot Hadron Build Part 3 – Completing the Build"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is finally time for my old printer to bite the dust, it was really starting to look very sorry for itself.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to reuse some of the parts for the new Hadron.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo showing the dismantled Prusa i3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here are the parts that will be reused on the Hadron<\/p>\n

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During the dismantling process, based on how loose the frame had become, I was amazed that it was still able to print anything worthwhile at all.<\/p>\n

It took quite a while to run all of the various wires through the frame elements and springs.<\/p>\n

For many of the sections, I ran some singe cores of wire to make pulling bundles that much easier.<\/p>\n

The collection of wires to the heated bed was the toughest, because of the heavy gauge heating wires.<\/p>\n

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The biggest collection of wires was to the extruder platform<\/p>\n

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This shot shows the microswitches and wheels behind the extruder carriage.<\/p>\n

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As you can see from some of these photos, the eccentric nuts and the micro switches had all turned up by this point, so I was able to finish off the physical build as well.<\/p>\n

I chose not to wire up the Z axis micro switches as I want to use the serial 1 pins (d18 and d19) for a bluetooth module.<\/p>\n

The finished printer<\/p>\n

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Rear view.<\/p>\n

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Right side<\/p>\n

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Left side<\/p>\n

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Wiring close up<\/p>\n

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I downloaded the latest version of the\u00a0Repetier<\/a>\u00a0firmware after using their website to generate a suitable configuration.h file, and uploaded the firmware to the ATmega2560<\/a> board using the Arduino<\/a> IDE.<\/p>\n

I was then able to connect to the printer via the USB connection.<\/p>\n

I powered up the 12V PSU, heard a ‘snap’ and saw a small plume of magic smoke, so quickly turned it off again.<\/p>\n

Somehow I had managed to wire up the connections to the 12V PSU backwards, so I had probably just fried one or more of the following items: the protection diode, the voltage regulator, the fuses and possibly even a mosfet.<\/p>\n

After correcting the wiring issue, I powered it up again – no more magic smoke, but the board will also not do very much either at this point.<\/p>\n

I will have a closer look at the board to see if it is salvageable at some point, in the mean time I have ordered a Ramps 1.6 board which should be a significant upgrade anyway and less prone to having the power contacts melt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is finally time for my old printer to bite the dust, it was really starting to look very sorry for itself. I also wanted to reuse some of the parts for the new Hadron. Here is a photo showing the dismantled Prusa i3. Here are the parts that will be reused on the Hadron…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-hadron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/3dprinters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}