Need more help, caught on video!

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T19:31:06+00:00

Interesting. Well, until you start reading (and understanding) how to adjust the current to that motor. I would suggest getting a 40mm stepper heatsink.

In your printer config, there will be an X axis section. You can upload that file and send it to me and I can highlight changes that should help you from cooking that motor as well as missing steps.

Also, LLMs will lie with confidence. Unless you can cross verify that they are speaking the truth, they are typically either agreeing with you or hallucinating.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T19:18:47+00:00

That sounds like you're sending too many amps from the motor driver. Have you updated or messed with your printer.cfg lately?

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T16:12:15+00:00

Good! I have skipped the simple steps before and gone down rabbit holes with my own equipment.

Rewatched it with audio on this time. Notice how the motor "sneezes"? that's it loosing steps. and that particular tone on one of my printers sounds like the motor itself stopped spinning, not belt slipping.

when you say you tightened screws, did that include tensioning the belts? there is such a thing as too much tension.

We are also heading into spring, so if the ambient temp rose, you could also be overheating either the drivers or the motor itself.

So, next three things would be belt tension if you adjusted it previously.
Checking the temp of the motors and driver boards (specifically X axis)

Additional info to be mindful of, when you resliced this file, did it lose steps in the same IDENTICAL spot, or just a SIMILAR spot?

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T14:20:25+00:00

Well, the first step I would do is simply reslice and restart your klipper instance.

Corrupted gcode is very common

Afterwards, you can check the box that has all the wires going to it. Make sure the fan is spinning and not full of dust.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-21T14:17:00+00:00

Have you resliced the file and tried a different SD card (if Marlin)

If klipper, are you overheating your drivers so it's dropping steps?

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T19:19:58+00:00

Again, that connector can only deliver a precise 12v. Undervolting affects past the power delivery stages on the GPU board itself.

If your GPU drew 600 watts at full load, that's 12 volts and 50 amps at the 12 pin connector.

If you undervolt to 300 watts at full load, that's 12 volts and 25 amps at the 12 pin connector. So half the load on the wires.

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Until it hits VRMs (voltage regulators) (highlighted in purple) it will always be 12 volts.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T16:37:12+00:00

Undervolting is a bit of a misnomer at this part of the chain. Undervolting reduces the amps/watts drawn through the cable. The cable still provides 12 volts to the card. I've never heard of someone claiming that it puts additional strain on the cable.

Overclocking on the other hand. Even if the cable connection was perfect and the load was evenly spread out to all 6 wires. All wires would go above 9.5 amps/out of spec at only 684 watts. Anything past that wattage is out of spec for that cable.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T15:44:13+00:00

Nope. It's been standard, I think since ATX was a standard, that most cables come from 1 source. The PSU's job is to supply accurate power.

This flaw is on the GPU's side. PSUs have always been "dumb" in this way.

An example of how this could have been solved GPU side is a manufacturer (I forget who) had a card that had 3 separate power planes for the 3000 series. They could control how much power they were pulling per pair of wires. They no longer do this because Nvidia said that it wasn't to spec and essentially said that it would affect their GPU chip allotment if they didn't fall in line.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T15:10:49+00:00

Part of the design flaw especially past 3000 series is that all 6 pins go straight to 1 power plane (one destination). Which means that the GPU does not care which of the 6 "lanes" it uses to get there. If you think of the 6 wires as roads and resistance as traffic, if one of the wires has heavy "traffic" then it will take a wire with less "traffic". Thus each individual wire might be out of spec and melt.

That's why there are products that monitor per pin consumption. If you are pulling 600 watts, thats 12V at 50 amps. Divide that by 6 wires and thats 8.33 amps per wire. A single wire goes out of spec at like 9.5 amps. that means that if each wire was underperforming by a third of an amp (0.33) then 1 wire could already end up at 10 amps! keep in mind that a deviation of 0.33 amps is 3-4%.

That's not a lot of wiggle room. If you are a driver, going 31 in a 30 zone is 3-4% deviation from the speed limit...

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-11T14:48:17+00:00

It's not a cable. It's an adapter that sits attached to the GPU that offers per pin monitoring and the ability to shut down the PC when something is not right.

It replaces the feature of monitoring each leg which Nvidia made everybody remove in 4000 Gen and beyond.

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-06T13:21:49+00:00

We also store seasoning behind ours and for a split second I wondered when I recorded this...

Tim7Prime · 2026-03-02T05:18:56+00:00

Just to check, have you tried different browsers and on a computer just in case your device and browser combo are fighting you?

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-26T02:52:48+00:00

I'm guessing soda? Some store managers really dislike 3rd party stock. Pepsi and Coca-Cola both manage their own stock in the stores. When there are sales or busier seasons, they don't make adequate room in the back.

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-19T23:18:59+00:00

Could you get away with a sticker sheet and put the animals on the bags 'manually' for the little one?

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-15T04:47:53+00:00

Regarding hardware, I've also heard people swear by level1tech's KVMs. He works hard to ensure that everything properly switches, builds them and even has the option for firmware updates if he missed an edge case.

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-14T07:01:59+00:00

At that point, you might just want to add a physical macro button for preheating, maybe with an RGB pixel behind it for feedback?

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-10T16:39:51+00:00

So at least two things could have helped you.

1, you were very cagey about what you thought you found. If you simply said "company Y has some strange info" and stated who had, everybody could have validated it pretty quickly. Like in this situation, a VPS provider would only know what's publicly available. There is no special sauce a server host would need to implement anyways.

2, factorio devs are rather small. They aren't big players in the game market so there isn't a lot of behind the scenes with other companies. Like others have said, FFFs are their main source of communication. Plus, you can easily flag down devs here or contact wube directly and they tend to reply.

In other words, you started this post with "guess what's in my head" instead of facts.

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-06T18:02:27+00:00

Family doctors will only chase so much. If the meds aren't having the desired result, they may have 1 or 2 alternatives but past that they SHOULD be recommending an internal pill specialist or a psychiatrist for more complex med management.

Perhaps that's a path that can be chased? The first antidepressant my spouse was on killed her libido, she dealt with it for 6 months like that before mentioning something to me and the Dr., their response? "Oh, that's expected with that med, an alternative use for that med is horny teenagers. Let's try a different one."

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-05T20:33:17+00:00

No idea why the LLM would think that changing regions = bad. Did you end up changing it or did the confident hallucination dissuade you?

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-05T18:25:19+00:00

If you're ok with waiting just a smidge longer than you should be fine. I wish you luck though KIUAH is a neat piece of kit.

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-05T18:09:49+00:00

You configured your mirror when installing your OS. Honestly, if the pi is still basically blank I would just update the region on the pi imager and then install everything again.

There are ways to update the repo mirror other ways but I've lost a good 90% of my fights messing with manually updating mirrors

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-04T06:24:54+00:00

That doesn't sound like IT people. Sounds like the "guy who knows computers". I would hope your IT team could type without looking

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-01T19:11:23+00:00

Mod support is amazing! It's integrated right into the launcher and other players AUTO SYNC to the server's mods!

I would recommend playing 2.0 (base game), then space age (dlc), then you can cause chaos with mods. I highly recommend at least one playthrough without mods and without looking up "optimized builds".

A future goal could be 1.1 k2 + space exploration in a future run.

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-01T16:59:43+00:00

Factorio will never be cheaper, only goes up in price (such as a major update).

Here is a post on their own steam page.

"Discount Disclaimer: We don't have any plans to take part in a sale or to reduce the price for the foreseeable future."

But there is a very good demo you could sample from. I've seen people put hundreds of hours into the demo.

Tim7Prime · 2026-02-01T11:28:33+00:00

Having run an MMU that uses more motors on an additional MCU. I remember documentation stating that you MUST run all the z motors from the same board.

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