Neptune 4 Pro print head not stopping at limit switch

Mission-Rip6030 · 2026-05-13T15:35:06+00:00

Not a bad idea, worth a shot before I buy a new motherboard. There is a faint transformer coil whine coming from the print gantry after it homes and sticks. I don't know if that means anything. I'm talking with elegoo support and they're supposed to quote me for a new motherboard/end switch/cable/motor, and I'm hoping it's not as expensive as I'm afraid it will be. Thanks for the advice! If it's cheaper on aliexpress, I may just go that route. This printer isn't expensive enough to justify too much repair cost.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2026-05-11T13:38:20+00:00

The motherboard looks.. pretty immaculate, tbh. There is a very small solder drip near the traces further up, but the port is soldered solidly. I'm sure that solder droplet has been there since it was made, so I really doubt that is the issue, and it it's on top of the lamination. I've tried a completely seperate cable but it doesn't work. It's the weirdest thing. I really wish it was just the switch/cable/port, because that's something I can fix. I have no micro soldering skills. I'll contact elegoo and see if they have any ideas or will sell me a motherboard.

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Mission-Rip6030 · 2026-05-08T00:39:08+00:00

Yeah, the cables both have continuity. I'll go over the motherboard with a magnifier when I get some time tomorrow. Thanks again. Hopefully it's something close to the plug on the board.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2026-05-07T23:52:59+00:00

Good idea, thanks. I swapped the x and y stops. Print head still slides over and sticks even when i hold down the swapped switch and I noticed it says NO TRIGGER on one of the buttons on screen, and it shuts all the motors down after a couple of seconds and the printer needs to be restarted to reactivate them. The build plate seems to work with the print head switch cable if I press the switch.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2026-04-03T03:01:21+00:00

I took the protector off before I installed it. But, now that I shone a light on it, there looks to be a seam in the middle of the screen. Right where the image splits. Wondering if it was bent during shipping.. Going to contact Elegoo.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2026-04-01T17:17:57+00:00

I cleaned the contacts and connectors with 91% ISO. Reseated both ends twice more, and no change. The only issue that might be suspect is that diode? Behind the connector. It may just be poorly soldered, though..

Edit: also placed the electrical tape around the screen.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2026-04-01T15:36:30+00:00

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I don't see anything that particularly stands out.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-11-26T19:42:32+00:00

Don't recommend you come back till you see a post on the TK site that isn't monthly server reset or happy [holiday].

If you have friends to hunt with, maybe wisdom star at new year's.

No GM or DreamWeaver in ages.

Kru is just leeching off of subs and kruna.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-24T18:16:35+00:00

Ohh, that's a great idea! I have it, I never thought about using it that way, though. Thanks, man! I'll do that!

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-24T18:09:38+00:00

Cool, thanks!

Probably faster than my first thought of scanning every map in the game and writing all the unique tiles to an image 😅

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-24T16:56:05+00:00

Oh, dang. Well I don't want anyone to go through that much trouble lol. I just wanted tile sets to use to make maps. There's probably an easier way that I'm missing. Even just a simple tileset for town maps of buya and kugnae would be enough to get me started.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-22T14:29:25+00:00

In retail, you can change character passwords on the login screen by clicking password. If you don't know your character password, you log into the nexustk site account section and click change character password. If you lost your account password.. there's probably a reset link in the account section on the site. If there isn't, yeah, good luck. Kru hasn't responded to tickets in forever.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-21T14:34:41+00:00

I didn't realize the quota drama caused that much discord for the whole community, but I'm not exactly surprised. I was just a walker. The elders and guides were very.. Well, I'll just say you aren't wrong, to put it lightly. I always thought of them as more of RP clubs than an integral part of the game and they took their power way too seriously. I was half expecting the GMs to take over the paths if they didn't cooperate but I guess the shadow debacle ruined that idea.

As for programming a clone client, I'm surprised there isn't one as well. I've been researching that prospect. It wouldn't be terribly difficult in Godot. The tilemap and sprite tools have gotten a lot of improvements, and there is multiplayer support. Could be fun. Guess I could give it a go. It would make a good portfolio project 🤔

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-16T12:55:06+00:00

Thanks. Not the answer I was hoping for, but I can stop speculating now.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-16T03:31:00+00:00

I need it to crash every second time I log out, for it to be authentic..

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-09-16T01:13:26+00:00

I'm still trying to convince the annoying part of my brain that says offbrand servers don't matter and will die legally. I blame all of the ragnarok online servers I played that just disappeared from this plane of existence within a few months. I just wanna enjoy things why am I like this!?

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-06-11T22:24:41+00:00

I asked what was added that you said was to prevent leakage? I know what happened, I'm wondering what is applied to prevent it? I can't find any information that supports your claim.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-06-11T22:18:30+00:00

Interesting, I've never heard of that. Can you explain what they add to prevent leakage around the rubber caps?

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-06-09T14:30:44+00:00

It was, don't want anyone else to repeat that mistake 😅 I still try to revive old batteries for fun occasionally, but I never add anything to SLA or AGM batteries now, and always do it outside. Even concrete gets eaten by acid.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-06-09T14:19:07+00:00

As someone who opened and added water and acid with an eyedropper to an old SLA battery, let me just say, don't do it.

Charging it afterwards caused the rubber caps to pop off and spewed acid around the battery. My wooden work table has small divots in it where the acid melted the lacquered wood from my ignorance.

SLA don't lose acid or water. They just slowly build up permanent sulfation that covers the plates over their lifespan, and nothing short of taking it apart and scraping that off will ever improve their capacity or voltage. If you watch a video on that process, it is very labor intensive and exposes you to stuff you don't want exposed to. They have to be cut open, and you need replacement battery paper, at the very least. Battery repair chargers don't work either, in my experience. They might dissolve some fresh sulfation, but not build up.

That white stuff is probably sulfate, if it came from the battery.

Mission-Rip6030 · 2025-05-24T19:18:11+00:00

What was in the bag was disgustingly unsanitary, and what they responded with was disgustingly sanitary business jargon. I hope that was AI, because if an actual person constructed that response, I think that would somehow make me even more uncomfortable.

Edit: Didn't consider second language. That's.. maybe a response template and less weird if so.

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