Hi everyone,
I'm building a Prusa I2, a by now almost ancient design, of which I had most parts already laying around. I'm using a RAMPS 1.4 shield on an Arduino mega, and a4988 stepper drivers on top. I have no heated bed, yet, installed.
The problem I have is after starting a print, the Z-axis moves up (for I think it's supposed to be 5 mm according to the G-code), than the X-axis moves during or directly after that Repetier Host (V2.1.3) gives me "Error: printer halted. kill () called!" and at the same time a window pops up saying something like "A fatal error on the printer side stopped the printer until the error is fixed. Printer message: Error:Printer halted.kill() called!". Clicking on the 'Problem fixed, continue' button resulted in nothing.
Than after that Repetier shows above the manual controls ''xx Commands expected" with "xx" going up to 14.
A few sidenotes:
- I've tried a 'dry-print' in an earlier stage, when I didn't have all the stepper motors and none of the endstops installed, which worked fine, considering how "fine" it could work in that stage with wrong stepper motor speeds and no endstops installed etc.
- After some searching on the internet I found on multiple threads that appearently this issue is associated with thermistors problems, either it not being connected or something related. So that's why I tried printing with a heated nozzle but to no succes. Also I think I never really had any problems with my thermistor (the thermistor being the thermistor on the hotend).
Has anyone got an idea what the problem could be?
I'm building a Prusa I2, a by now almost ancient design, of which I had most parts already laying around. I'm using a RAMPS 1.4 shield on an Arduino mega, and a4988 stepper drivers on top. I have no heated bed, yet, installed.
The problem I have is after starting a print, the Z-axis moves up (for I think it's supposed to be 5 mm according to the G-code), than the X-axis moves during or directly after that Repetier Host (V2.1.3) gives me "Error: printer halted. kill () called!" and at the same time a window pops up saying something like "A fatal error on the printer side stopped the printer until the error is fixed. Printer message: Error:Printer halted.kill() called!". Clicking on the 'Problem fixed, continue' button resulted in nothing.
Than after that Repetier shows above the manual controls ''xx Commands expected" with "xx" going up to 14.
A few sidenotes:
- I've tried a 'dry-print' in an earlier stage, when I didn't have all the stepper motors and none of the endstops installed, which worked fine, considering how "fine" it could work in that stage with wrong stepper motor speeds and no endstops installed etc.
- After some searching on the internet I found on multiple threads that appearently this issue is associated with thermistors problems, either it not being connected or something related. So that's why I tried printing with a heated nozzle but to no succes. Also I think I never really had any problems with my thermistor (the thermistor being the thermistor on the hotend).
Has anyone got an idea what the problem could be?