Soo… I bought another plotter. It was close by, dirt cheap, and came with some other goodies I’ll share later.
On power up, the pen carriage homes all the way to the right, but never stops. I don’t see any limit switches, and it goes on for much longer than it would take to do the entire travel.
There’s this flywheel looking thing labeled Ferrofluidics corp, which looks suspiciously fancy (it’s got a serial number).
The stepper motor has 8 wires.
So.. what gives? Anyone know how a mechanism like this would have homed itself, or what that mysterious blue object is?
It’s an intriguing mystery… plus I’d love to actually get this working; it’s a nice medium size between my other two plotters.
#penPlotter #stepperMotor #electronics #retroTech #retroComputing
#steppermotor
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It doesn't stop until the motor-timeout is hit, *or* I manually disable motors - at which point the ticking instantly stops.
Any idea why the steppers are still being activated after the print is complete? Does it serve a purpose? Seems like a waste of energy, and needless stress on the hardware.
Running vanilla Klipper version v0.12.0-290-g14a83103c on an #FLSun #V400.
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