Extruder stopped working

Hello,

About a month ago I’ve been able to print 2 parts. While the quality was rubbish i was pleased i had been able to print at least something. After those 2 prints, the extruder didn’t seem to extrude enough material anymore. At the moment the extruder does nothing at all anymore.

-I’ve checked the voltage on the stepper driver (0.34)
-I’ve checked if the wiring is correct (wich i expected to be right because i was able to extrude before)
-I changed the Extruder and Y-axis on the main board and the Y axis did move when i tried to extrude manually in repetier. Then i tried to move the Y-axis manually in Repetier but the extruder motor didn’t do anything more than make a humming noise.
-If u turn the extruder wheel by hand it extrudes and moves very easy.

I’m thinking the motor might be broken but if there are other thing i can try to fix this before buying a new motor, please let me know :slight_smile:

Hi,

[quote=“Jelath.O”]-I’ve checked the voltage on the stepper driver (0.34) [/quote]This is way too low! The correct voltage should be between 0.5 and 0.55V.

[quote=“raby”]Hi,

I ment 0.43v (as told in the manual) but I’ll try to raise it and see if it helps :slight_smile:

Raby is right.
0.55 works better.