M116 and temperature overshoots...

deckingman

@edsped I don't much like M116 because as you say, it will often wait for the temperature to drop to within (I think) 1 degree of the set point as well as wait for heating. So with a slight overshoot as is often the case, it can take quite a while for the temperature to settle, meanwhile the tool is oozing filament as you have noticed. I have another issue in that I use the nozzle as a probe so I like to heat the hot end to 140 deg C or above to soften any filament that might have oozed prior to probing the bed. So I want to use any temperature at or above the set the point.

So instead of M116 I use the following format of conditional gcode

while sensors.analog[1].lastReading < 140 
	G4 S1

In your case, change the 140 to your print temperature. Essentially this is a loop which checks the temperature and if it's below 140 it waits for 1 second and checks again. It will continue to do so until the temperature is at or above 140.

So that would work for your overshoot.

jens55

Why not use the 'S' parameter for the M116 command?

edsped

@jens55 said in M116 and temperature overshoots...:

Why not use the 'S' parameter for the M116 command?

I do, at tpost0.g i have this as my first line...

M116 P0 S2                      ; Wait for tool to reach temperature

Then in purging macro that follows I have this...

if state.currentTool = 0
	M116 P0 S1 
elif state.currentTool = 1
	M116 P1 S1 
elif state.currentTool = 2
	M116 P2 S1 
elif state.currentTool = 3
M116 P3 S1 
M302 P0  		          		; Prevent Cold Extrudes, just in case temp setpoints are at 0
G1 E15 F800	 				; Unretract to nozzle
G1 E5 F200      	            ; Pebble Purge
M106 S255			    	   	; Cooling 100%
G4 S1                           ; Wait 3 seconds
G53 G1 Y305 F24000              ; Retract the entire tool and wipe Backwards.
G1 R2 Z0 F24000                 ; Restore prior Z position before tool change was initiated.
                                ; Note: tool tip position is automatically saved to slot 2 upon the start of a tool change.
                                ; Restore Z first so we don't crash the tool on retraction.
G1 R0 Y0 F24000                 ; Retract tool by restoring Y position next now accounting for new tool offset.
					    		; Restoring Y next ensures the tool is fully removed from parking post.
G1 R0 X0 F24000                 ; Restore X position now accounting for new tool offset.
M106 R2                         ; restore print cooling fan speed

edsped

@deckingman said in M116 and temperature overshoots...:

@edsped I don't much like M116 because as you say, it will often wait for the temperature to drop to within (I think) 1 degree of the set point as well as wait for heating. So with a slight overshoot as is often the case, it can take quite a while for the temperature to settle, meanwhile the tool is oozing filament as you have noticed. I have another issue in that I use the nozzle as a probe so I like to heat the hot end to 140 deg C or above to soften any filament that might have oozed prior to probing the bed. So I want to use any temperature at or above the set the point.

So instead of M116 I use the following format of conditional gcode
while sensors.analog[1].lastReading < 140 
	G4 S1
In your case, change the 140 to your print temperature. Essentially this is a loop which checks the temperature and if it's below 140 it waits for 1 second and checks again. It will continue to do so until the temperature is at or above 140.

So that would work for your overshoot.

Thanks! I'm going to give this a try I still need to get a handle on conditional code.

edsped

That's not quite getting what I want either... Ultimately I'd like it to start printing if it's at or above set temps. I think there might be a +/- 2 degree hard coded setting in the firmware I'd like to override that to -2 +5 degrees as I'm not overly concerned if the hotend is slightly over temps.

fcwilt

@edsped

So you would like the M116 S parameter to accept min_temp:max_temp, using the : as the delimiter as do many parameters already?

Sounds like a good idea.

How about posting it in the Firmware Wishlist category?

In the meantime you could use the loop and test for two temps rather than one.

Frederick

deckingman

@edsped That's easy enough to do too. Say for example your set temperature is 230. Then in your while loop you check if the temperature is at or above 228. You could then have second while loop to check if it's below 235. That'll give you the -2 +5 tollerance.

For info, something else I do is in my pre-print macro, I start by setting the bed to the desired temperature then use a while loop to wait for it to get to the set temperature minus 5 degrees, at which point I start heating the hot end and homing the printer. The net result is that all the homing gets done while the bed is heating and the hot end reaches its set point at more or less exactly the same time as the bed. Neither too long before, nor too long after and everything happens in the shortest possible time (which is how long it takes to heat the bed).

edsped

@fcwilt That would help, something like a M116 Px S2:4 Or something to override the the default +/-2 that seems to kick in once M116 has been satisfied or make M116 Sx persistent.

edsped

@deckingman That works well enough for the initial tool but not sure if it would be good for tool changes during the print.

fcwilt

@edsped said in M116 and temperature overshoots...:

@deckingman That works well enough for the initial tool but not sure if it would be good for tool changes during the print.

You could use global variables for the min/max temps and change them in the tool change code

In config.g you could put this to create the global variables:

global min_temp = 0
global max_temp = 0

In the tool change code you would have something like this:

set global.min_temp = 195
set global.max_temp = 205

And in the while loop:

while true
  var reading = sensors.analog[state.currentTool].lastReading 

  if var.reading >= global.min_temp && var.reading <= global.max_temp
    break

The above assumes the tool temp sensors are numbered 0 to 3 and match up with the tool numbers 0 to 3

Frederick

edsped

@fcwilt Is there some way to pass the print temps from PS? I'm hoping to not have to tweak every time I change filaments.

fcwilt

@edsped said in M116 and temperature overshoots...:

@fcwilt Is there some way to pass the print temps from PS? I'm hoping to not have to tweak every time I change filaments.

What is PS?

I use the Filament Management feature of the DWC to take care of changing temps to match the current filament.

Are you familiar with that feature?

By creating different filament entries you can have whatever temps you want just by selecting the desired filament for the desired tool in the DWC Desktop.

Frederick

edsped

@fcwilt Sorry PrusaSlicer... I abandoned the filament profiles when I couldn't use the same profile for multiple tools simultaneously. Four profiles for the same filament became unruly.

fcwilt

@edsped said in M116 and temperature overshoots...:

I abandoned the filament profiles when I couldn't use the same profile for multiple tools simultaneously. Four profiles for the same filament became unruly.

It must depend on how it is done. I have an E3D MS/TC printer and using the same filament for all four tools is not a problem.

Frederick

deckingman

@edsped said in M116 and temperature overshoots...:

@deckingman That works well enough for the initial tool but not sure if it would be good for tool changes during the print.

You can read the active temperature for a tool using the object model e.g in your tool change macro use tools[n].active[0] and use that instead of a fixed value.