ohhhh the old " i hope its not going to carve thru my garolite again " feeling. dont i know that too well

@mpirringer
@cope413
thanks , both very informative. yeah im familiar (quite thoroughly) with the process. however sarcastic , i guess i would say i had too high of expectation when it came to being able to get past my first print before things start going to hell
ive got it pretty dialed in now ( more or less ) but am still of the mindset that they glued that spaceman printed in nylonx to the bed before they shipped it out. it would be nice if when you connect to matter control, it has the settings they used when they printed that. maybe thats what the extra 150 gets you. ill never kno

@mlamparter yeah i stopped trying to print from the sdcard i guess its a no go. i havent had it freeze like that since but it will stop randomly( before the end ) whenever printing off the sdcard and with no print recover that got old, quick.

@mpirringer you too? is the heaterblock supposed to ... move so much?

@thwclw said in Viki LCD menu display ">>106%" What is it?:

Hi My Pulse XE S-232 (Smoothieware) shows a value on the LCD watch page of >>106%

I have not been able to find documentation anywhere that describes the LCD menu item functionality and the 106% value doesn't seem to match anything in my slice settings - Does anyone know what it is?

Also is there a .PDF that has all the documentation for Matterhacker Pulse printers in one place, or is it only available as disjointed random video's and online "guides?"

Thanks!

what you didnt find the "welcome to the pulse family" very informative ? yeah i know a manual with some kind would have been nice. i mean even the chinese are able to produce one ffs broken vague english is better than welcome to the family with no documentation whatsoever about your extremely technical and expensive machine you just purchased ! but dont worry we have your back, for life! however we may not have the slightest clue to answer any questions you may have if you do call us but rest assured, we wont have them for life! no worries there

yeah or what about the unmarked button on the lcd or the 2 next to the usb connection on the board?
or how about how to make sure the two z axis are in sync?
what about prints stopping everytime you try to print off sdcard?
why also does the sdcard on the back not show any files to print?
if calibrating z offset and then running printer calibration do i still then need to M851 my z in terminal?
while we are at it why is mattercontrol so shitty? and also whats up with 150 dollar paywall i mean that couldve been advertised as its pretty critical when consider purchasing
so many questions so little ( 0 ) answers
should have just gotten in line for the prusa like everyone else

after further tinkering- tried a few things like a hammer, i ended up throwing it against the wall then kicked it down the stairs, out the front door and stomped on it for a while. that didnt work so i ran it over with my truck- still no change. so i took it back inside and was staring at it for a while. then i tried pushing and holding the little unmarked button on the lcd screen- nothing. then took the plunge and did the same for the 2 also unmarked buttons on the top of the control board and success. im not sure which button did it but the screen finally flashed and began starting up with the usual logo and opened the menu. had to recalibrate because the next print was way up in the air.
i guess i found out what i couldnt get an answer from matterhackers support which was what the difference between running it off of the computer vs off of the sdcard- the answer being the sdcard will fuck your print up at some point and cause high levels of stress and so far off the computer seems to run normally. might want to add that to the sales page it would have been good to know i needed a dedicated computer for the printer i wouldnt have gotten the 450$ 32bit board if that was the case. we'll see how it goes from here i leveled 3 more times because who knows why it kept being too far from the bed at least now it appears to be close enough to the bed to at least stick momentarily. fingers crossed

tried turning on/off screen still blank with flashing blue lights. also upon startup thers 2 weird clicking noises . 3rd print on the printer using rhino. aggravating to say the least especially with no documentation on matter hackers whatsoever related to troubleshooting with the printers they make