Any guesses as to discrepancy in arm length vs. measured arm length?
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Also, I'm tempted to try 360mm magball Hadyn's arms from Ultibots.
Any downside to having vastly longer arms like that? I would imagine the accuracy is slightly less for small movements, but I could perhaps offset that with 0.9 degree steppers.
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The longer arms give up a ton of Z, which sucks.
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Just posting some results for reference from a 22 point bed calibration, 325mm traxxis ball joint arms, and FSR sensor setup, using the past generation Trick Laser carriages, effector, and arms made for the Rostock Max v2 kit as upgrades.
Also, note how closely it calculates the correct delta radius (which is listed at 133mm).
[c]M561; clear any bed transform, otherwise homing may be at the wrong height
G31 X0 Y0; don't want any probe offset for this
M116 ; wait for all temps to reach set values
G28; home; 3 points at 140mm
G30 P0 X0.00 Y140.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P1 X121.24 Y-70.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P2 X-121.24 Y-70.00 Z-99999 H-0.05; 3 points at 130mm
G30 P3 X0.00 Y130.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P4 X112.58 Y-65.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P5 X-112.58 Y-65.00 Z-99999 H-0.05; 3 points at 120mm
G30 P6 X0.00 Y120.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P7 X103.92 Y-60.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P8 X-103.92 Y-60.00 Z-99999 H-0.05; 6 points at 75mm
G30 P9 X0.00 Y75.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P10 X64.95 Y37.50 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P11 X64.95 Y-37.50 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P12 X0.00 Y-75.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P13 X-64.95 Y-37.50 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P14 X-64.95 Y37.50 Z-99999 H-0.05; 6 points at 50mm
G30 P15 X0.00 Y50.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P16 X43.30 Y25.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P17 X43.30 Y-25.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P18 X0.00 Y-50.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P19 X-43.30 Y-25.00 Z-99999 H-0.05
G30 P20 X-43.30 Y25.00 Z-99999 H-0.05G30 P21 X0 Y0 Z-99999 H-0.05 S6
M500; Save print settings to config-override
[/c]Calibration console output:
[c]Calibrated 6 factors using 22 points, deviation before 1.810 after 0.019[/c]
And then the new config output is here:
[c]; This is a system-generated file - do not edit
; Delta parameters
M665 L325.000 R132.978 H332.047 B140.0 X-0.012 Y0.268 Z0.000
M666 X-0.491 Y0.820 Z-0.330 A0.00 B0.00[/c] -
The longer arms give up a ton of Z, which sucks.
So get longer verticals.
Deltas have massive Z dimension which I am sure almost no one ever uses.
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Those are good #'s, Saffi. Makes me think I need to try some longer magball arms, just to see what the results are. Really didn't want to have to spend that money!
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I now replaced the springs with rubber bands, pressure on the balls is a lot less now.
But this change showed close to no effect , the S6 and S8 results are nearly identical. One very interesting thing I realized was that the effector moves a little bit when I roll one of the rods arround it's axis, i did not expect that.
I also compared calibration with your points to the results with the standard config generated by the bed.g generator (both at 140mm radius):
Calibrated 6 factors using 22 points, deviation before 0.088 after 0.087
Calibrated 6 factors using 16 points, deviation before 0.103 after 0.102
The numbers are way off compared to yours…. sniff.....
I have a set of 304mm Haydn rods, will try those. Have now also ordered 360mm version of them from Haydn.
By the way, did the mounting distance of the rods/effector size change between the last generation tricklaser rods and the generation before?
And another question, it seems your bed is more or less the same size as mine (330mm), what is roughly the distance between the center of the bed and the ball's center on the carriages? Are there any rules for that?
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@MiR:
I have a set of 304mm Haydn rods, will try those. Have now also ordered 360mm version of them from Haydn.
By the way, did the mounting distance of the rods/effector size change between the last generation tricklaser rods and the generation before?
And another question, it seems your bed is more or less the same size as mine (330mm), what is roughly the distance between the center of the bed and the ball's center on the carriages? Are there any rules for that?
On my printer this distance is approx. 190mmThe Delta Radius for the old Trick Laser Carriages and Effector was about 133mm.
The Delta Radius for the new Trick Laser Ball Cup Carriages and Effector is about 141mm.The Rostock Max (at least the metal frame) has a printer radius of 200mm, it's referenced here:
http://www.tricklaser.com/Trick-Truck-X-Mini-Carriages-TTRUCK-XMINI.htmI'm considering either trying a 360mm set of the Hayden's mag ball arms or possibly a 360mm set of the ball cup arms - I'm curious if I can get a length long enough to compensate for the weird calibration of the ball cup current generation setup.
Or I could just wait on the PCB effector sets and go all out and put linear rails and mag ball arms all on at the same time for my gold standard build.
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I have now mounted my 304mm Haydn Rods. Guess what happend:
6-factor calibration:
Calibrated 6 factors using 22 points, deviation before 0.032 after 0.030
8-factor calibration (after quite some itterations)
Calibrated 8 factors using 22 points, deviation before 0.017 after 0.013that's a lot better than the 0.87 I got before with the tricklaser rods. Probing Radius was kept same as with the old measurement, 140mm, which is perhaps a little too much for the 304mm rods, the rod angles get a little extreme at that radius
The 360mm Haydn Rods are already on their way to Switzerland, I hope the numbers stay about as good as they are right now….
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Nice results. I have some printing to catch up on this week, but once that is done I will do some more tinkering to see what changes between arm lengths. The 325mm Trick Laser last generation arms are working very well though, so I'm running all my prints with those. I was worried a lot about the FSRs because they didn't seem to behave like I thought they would, but the arm swap definitely makes them much more reliable and easy to use.
@MiR:
I have now mounted my 304mm Haydn Rods. Guess what happend:
6-factor calibration:
Calibrated 6 factors using 22 points, deviation before 0.032 after 0.030
8-factor calibration (after quite some itterations)
Calibrated 8 factors using 22 points, deviation before 0.017 after 0.013that's a lot better than the 0.87 I got before with the tricklaser rods. Probing Radius was kept same as with the old measurement, 140mm, which is perhaps a little too much for the 304mm rods, the rod angles get a little extreme at that radius
The 360mm Haydn Rods are already on their way to Switzerland, I hope the numbers stay about as good as they are right now….
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Today I received my 360mm Haydn Rods. After a few rounds of 8-factor calibration I ended up with this:
Calibrated 8 factors using 16 points, deviation before 0.013 after 0.008
So it is definitely the Tricklaser Rods that are causing the calibration issues, I will ask the tricklaser guys if they have an idea why… (Or did anybody already contact them?)
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@MiR:
Today I received my 360mm Haydn Rods. After a few rounds of 8-factor calibration I ended up with this:
Calibrated 8 factors using 16 points, deviation before 0.013 after 0.008
So it is definitely the Tricklaser Rods that are causing the calibration issues, I will ask the tricklaser guys if they have an idea why… (Or did anybody already contact them?)
What radius did you probe at?
What arm length did it auto calibrate to, does it match real rod length?
Does it print parts at true scale now?What did you change to go from ball-cup pivot balls to mag-ball pivots?
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I did not notice if anyone is using the "h" parameter in their G30 probing?
This value is a height correction for probe trigger height.
What I understand is that your probe triggers at different heights depending on location of bed.
So, unless you measure actual trigger height at each probe location (and put those values in bed.g) I do not believe you are getting true calibrations, especially when tweaking down to such small deviations like you all are chasing after.
Furthermore, I suspect those trigger values change when you change arms, joints, or any other part of your mechanical linkage.If you think you need to get closer than what auto calibration probing does, why not use mesh bed height compensation on top of the auto calibration??
If you know your real arm length, I don't think you should let auto calibration change that value.!
Also, probing at extremes of travel (140 mm radius) does not help, I feel the geometry out there is to unstable to be reliable (and worse the shorter the arms are) I get more predictable results at 125 mm radius.
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I probed with 120mm radius, forgot to re-enable the larger 130mm radius (I was using shorter 300mm Haydn Rods before the new ones arrived, and for those rods a larger radius was a little extreme).
I did only S8 calibration, dc42 does advise against using S7
I cannot yet say if the parts are true scale with the 360mm arms as I ran into another issue with the hotend cooling fan (more on this in another thread), but with the 300mm Haydn rods Calibration cubes were close to perfect in size.
To change away from tricklaser I printed a small adapter for my carriages that has the same hole size/distance as the tricklaser ball bar-bells, and I also printed a new effector that uses Haydn's spheres instead of the bar-bells.
I will replace the adapters soon, but so far they do their job.On h-parameter:
I used then in the beginning, when doing all the testing I did not use them anymore because the effort was simply too much as I was trying a lot of probing patterns/changed probing points. Now that I have my 'final' configuration I will create proper h-values again for all my measure-points.
With tricklaser rods the best I could ever get was a deviation of 0.087, that's factor 10 worse than what I see today, now that I have proof that they are really the parts to blame for the issues I can move on finetuning the printer.
As far as I know the correction factors will not be used with mesh calibration so I am not sure if the height map I get out of it is really the heightmap of my bed or just a map of sensitivity of my FSR's…. I have finished piezo-probe kit from DJDemonD ready for installation but I did not want to change too many things before the Haydn rods arrived to be able to compare the results.
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That is very interesting info. Thanks for sharing.
I think there is more going on with the printer than simply changing between a mag-ball joint and ball-cup+springs, essentially they both should be the same spherical joint.
Would you have the time to gather some data on probe trigger distances? comparing the two joints, probing a the same locations the auto-calibration uses.
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That is very interesting info. Thanks for sharing.
I think there is more going on with the printer than simply changing between a mag-ball joint and ball-cup+springs, essentially they both should be the same spherical joint.
Would you have the time to gather some data on probe trigger distances? comparing the two joints, probing a the same locations the auto-calibration uses.
I am very curious if probe trigger offsets are the same.If memory serves, they were similar on the probe points. I never really found any points that differed more than ~0.1mm in probe distance and I never could find a pattern of different probe distances at the towers vs between them (where I'd previously been adding up to ~0.3mm to ~0.5mm).
Right now I have everything working nicely though and I've been printing continuously, so it may take me some time to check further.
I'll go ahead and order some custom length 350mm ball joint arms from you though and we can finally solve the question of what exactly is causing the calibration weirdness. Then I can run a 300mm test and a 350mm test with the same arm style and 350mm should be plenty of length to reach the 300mm edges of the bed.
I feel like the 300mm ball joint arms were pretty good up to around 250mm in diameter for printing, which probably works for 90% of people using them.
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So I finally got around to installing some ball-cup joint arms that are 350mm in length and they look pretty similar to the 325mm arms that were the standard M3 traxxis metal joints in how they are calibrating with the FSR sensors.
My old 325mm arms config-override:
[c]M665 L325.000 R133.101 H332.907 B150.0 X-0.208 Y0.178 Z0.000
M666 X-0.608 Y0.878 Z-0.269 A0.00 B0.00[/c]The new 350mm ball-cup arms config-override:
[c]M665 L350.000 R141.775 H311.606 B150.0 X0.150 Y-0.031 Z0.000
M666 X-0.043 Y0.130 Z-0.086 A0.00 B0.00[/c]Calibration on the 350mm arms looks like:
[c]Calibrated 6 factors using 19 points, deviation before 0.081 after 0.031[/c]My 300mm ball-cup arms simply wouldn't calibrate properly for prints over ~200mm in length, but these longer 350mm arms appear to be working much better.
I will let this print run tonight (it takes about 5 hours and is 268mm in length so it's using a lot of the print diameter) and once it is finished I should be able tell how well the FSR sensors and the 350mm ball-cup arms work together. Initially, I'm not seeing the variation on the first layer outer perimeter from the 300mm ball-cup arms, so this should isolate if the ball-cup arms and FSR sensor setup simply needs longer arms to calibrate properly.
I can also post more calibration output later after this print.
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Lots of work here. Mind posting some pictures of the different rods you have used with the results you obtained?
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I'll try to gather the arm sets together and post pictures later. For reference the three sets I tested on a Max Metal frame were:
300.15mm Trick Laser Ball-Cup Carbon Fiber Arms (these gave me lots of calibration and print issues for larger items)
325mm Trick Laser Traxxis Joint Arms M3 screw variety (these print quite well and solved my print issues)
350mm Trick Laser Ball-Cup Carbon Fiber Arms - Custom Length (these print as well or better than the 325mm arms and also resolve or rule out issues related to the ball-cup design)
The first print on the 350mm arms had an issue that shifted layers in the last hour (this happens to me maybe once in 100 prints - but it doesn't look related to the arms, I think I had X/Y movement too fast. I will update if it becomes a pattern).
My second print came out excellent though. I'd say on par with the 325mm arm quality if not better. In short, unless you need the height, the 350mm arms are a good trade-off for getting a full ~280mm diameter and beyond print quality for the first layer. It could be that the ball-cup joint artificially lowers the arm length since the ball-cups are larger diameter (I'm not entirely sure).
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Images as requested. The 325mm arms are the standard traxxis joints.
The 300.15mm and the 350.00mm arms are the ball-cup joints used on the Rostock Max v3.
Not pictured is the older Trick Laser carriage that pairs with the M3 Traxxis joint arms. It's the same as the ball-cup carriage, only larger with larger wheels.
