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SamppaD
I have a strange issue with one of my printers. As title say filament gets soften and extruder gears slips. My configuration is as follows
Ender 3 pro modified,direct drive with BMG extruder,mosquito hotend,all linear rails with full BLV kit.Mainboard is BTT SKR mini E3 V2.0 with Marlin 2.1.2.4 Printer is enclosed with exhaust fan always on. So this issue happens always on a 4 hour print,enclosure temperature is 47C,hotend temp 255C,bed at 110C printing ABS+ esun.Glass transition temp of this filament is 74C. Just opening enclosure doors to cool down enclosure helps resolve issue??.So i decided to do a test print and followed print process until it failed. I had to cool down camber like 15 minutes to open the doors and took a thermal image of the extruder motor...it was sitting at 79C and bmg extruder casings at 69C,so when printing it was way hotter. I tried many things,decrease current on extruder motor from 650 to 600,550,500 (multiply by 1.414 to get Amps) and finally 450 at this point loosing steps,but motor temperature got down to a 71,9C. If printer is on and bed only heating then extruder motor temperature gets about about 49C just from bed heating..
Extruder motor is pancake model that was sold as a 1A motor 17HS4023S-22.5A
I pull apart extruder,hotend and pancake motor and found that stepper motor had started to develop a bearing issues,so I swapped it with new motor same model,also replaced bmg extruder just in case, and inspected hotend..no issues or clogs with hotend. Then i checked specs for this motor but could not find exact model, but for a 17HS4023 its 0.7A?. So issue is that heat is transferring in to filament but ,adding heatsinks,swapping motors and dropping current didn't help. I have no space to add a 24V fan to the stepper motor so what to do? Last resort to go back to bowden and relocate extruder outside of enclosure is something that i dont want to do.. Anyone else with the same problem?
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