I have a sidewinder x1 and added the bltouch v3.1 to the printer I followed this guide and realized the the 3 prong connector with the brown wires need to be installed in the opposite orientation than shown in this guide if that helps anyone out who is having issues. Thank you by the way for this guide it definitely has alot of good information in it.
Ditto. Reversed brown wire orientation and everything worked great. Worth noting that my MKS Gen L board had many differences from the diagram, primarily color of sockets. Also, blobs of hot glue everywhere, that had to carefully be removed in some cases. After opening this thing up, I am inclined to move all of the internals to a separate box/console like the Creality machines.
I didnt have the 4 pin connector so I soldered the wires to the solder joints instead. Also, the brown connector is installed incorrectly at 7:30 and correctly @ 10:45. However, if you have capacitors blocking then you can instead invert the yellow and brown wires instead of flipping the connector on the board on the bottom of the machine. I had trouble flashing in the software, it was reading RAMPS. I had to update the driver for the device in windows 10 device manager. Hope this helps someone
I found the right connectors for this mod! For anyone that wants the 4 pin connector for this mod, search for this: DIKAVS Break Away Headers 2.54 mm Male Pin Header Connector - 40-pin Male Long Centered (Pack of 10) The pins are long like the one in this video and they worked for me.
I have artillery sidewinder V4 and 3.1 bltouch, and I have to install it the Yellow/red/brown wire in the opposite way, so it works (Y) -Thanks for sharing this tutorial.
I also have the Sidewinder v4 and 3.1 bltouch. Pressing home causes the bltouch to smash into the bed after switching the cables. Any ideas why this is happening?
Thanks to the OP for describing this mod! There are mixed messages in the chat below so just to clarify: I have a Sidewinder X1 V.4 and this mod works with the wiring set up as first described @7mins in (i.e., with the brown wire 3-pin cable on the motherboard having the silver bit pointed 'up' towards the capacitors). My board was litterally filled with hot glue everywhere, no chance of picking it out without first heating with a hot air gun. Be careful it quickly melts to a goo that runs everywhere! The provided firmware works OK but is now quite an old version. I tried first installing with a different and newer version (2.0.5.3) which installed OK but I was getting errors operating the BLTouch. I returned to the older version (provided with this mod) to get it functional but only later realised my wiring was incorrect and I'm guessing it would now actually work. I have not tried installing the newer Marlin version again though because I was just relieved to get the damn thing working at last! I will likely have another attempt later. For reference: I had cut off the plugs and shortened the wires from the BLTouch, soldering them to block of 4 pins from a length of 2.54mm pitch male PCB header pins. These are available anywhere. The soldered pin ends were protected with heatshrink tube and then the lot covered with a blob of hot glue, that offers the shortest length 'plug' which helps as space is tight. My mistake - using white heatshrink tube which led me to insert the 'plug' the wrong way around at the hot end! Don't do that, the BLTouch gets very hot but thankfully suffered no permanent damage. Just a load hassle before I realised the error I had made.
Thank you very much for your tutorial and the afford you put into it and especially the PDF file. I did this mod two days ago and after some test prints I can say, that it works excellent. Absolutely brilliant! The thing I like most, is the fact that you don't have to add any cables from the x-carrige to the board. Well done! Thanks a lot man!
Thank you for sharing, your detailed instructions and setup files made it an easy mod. I have original BL-touch V3.1 I did not notice any flashing after I setup Z-offset.
Thank you for the instructions, I just got the artillery sidewinder V4 and Bltouch 3.1, everything is working, it's awesome, i printed a several parts using your PLA profile, now I'm about to venture into petg, not sure if this thread too old to be adding comments
Dear friend, would you share with me if you used .zip for Bltouch version 1.0 or 1.5 from the auther's website? And which version of Marlin did you use? I'm struggling because my artillery is V4 and Bltouch V3 and it's much newer than auther's hardware. Thank you.
@@AuBurn077 Sorry I can't help much, I gave the Sidewinder to a friend almost a year ago, I looked in my folder and I have both 1.0 and 1.5 so I don't remember which one I use, I vaguely remember having issues with 1.5
This is old and out of date so unless you travel back in time and find an old Sidewinder and out of date BLtouch it won't work on newer printers, the newest BL touch wiring is White/Black/Yellow/Brown/Blue, so if doing this mod as instructed, you are wiring what? White/Brown/Blue/Yellow? doesn't work. White/Blue/Brown/Yellow? I get a blue light and nothing else.
18:25 (Personal Note may not accurate.) -Reset EPROM -Start Z-Offest. -Use paper to calibrate, after finished press up for two times. -Go Prusa Slicer, import Bltouch configuration.(24:00) -Nozzle too high moves down, too low moves up.
Thanks for the step-by-step instructions, you really helped me! I solved the screen firmware problem with your help. Know at least 1 person you made a little happier)) Thank you!
been a while not printing I had your mod on it and was working great just started making a few bits now and no issues at all and then had a problem with one of the prints I was doing and now the touch now will not stop and just crashes in to the bed I have changed ribbon cables new touch and wires new ribbon boards still does the exact same when levelling I have also tried other mod software but still the same. I am going to put the original end stop on and revert back and remove the touch to see if the issue is still there also all of the wiring has been checked a number of times ... I dont have a copy of your original files now as my original laptop got stolen and was on there...... GUTTED as no one will share or have it. But was great when working
Hi, where do you get the 4 pin connector? I bought some from amazon but the pins are shorter than the one in the video. Is there a specific model number for the 4 pin connector?
I found the right connectors for this mod! For anyone that wants the 4 pin connector for this mod, search for this: DIKAVS Break Away Headers 2.54 mm Male Pin Header Connector - 40-pin Male Long Centered (Pack of 10) The pins are long like the one in this video and they worked for me.
at 7:22 you say to mount the 3 brown wire with the silver pins facing up but in the PDF there facing down which one is it? you cant have the 3 brown wires facing up because there is a resistor in the way?
Its as the video as you see that working, it does however fit both ways. Also depending which version you have it does need to be flipped the other way. The good news is its the center pin thats positive so you won't do any damage if its the wrong way, it just won't work.
@@Waggster so if I have the 3 brown wires with the silver pins facing down it will still work because I really cant mount it the other way because the resistor is in the way the only way around that is if I cut the corner off the connector?
Thank you sir- that was excellent! Only change I had to make was flipping wires 1 and 3 on the 3 wire plug to make it fit. On my board, there are capacitors in the way so I couldn't fit the plug in the way it needed to go.
I found the right connectors for this mod! For anyone that wants the 4 pin connector for this mod, search for this: DIKAVS Break Away Headers 2.54 mm Male Pin Header Connector - 40-pin Male Long Centered (Pack of 10) The pins are long like the one in this video and they worked for me.
I have artillery sidewinder V4 and 3.1 bltouch, I had no problem with the install and I thank you very much, But I was wondering how to enable high speed probing, I used the hex file for the install and was hoping to, NOT have to re flash the firmware to accomplish this...THX
Great info. I've had my Artillery for about a week now and just starting to tune it. I was digging on the EEPROM Disabled message and working through that.
I have just completed this mod, however, when I do the z axis alignment, the nozzle crashes into tge bed. I can't figure out what I've done wrong. I'm using a 3d touch and have followed the instructions to the letter. Any ideas?
Thanks for the amazing tutorial and instructions. I had problem with my SD card and it seems the LCD can not use a 32 GB card (or maybe it was formatted wrong) so I used a 4 GB one I had and it worked. also my BL touch was just blinking red and I had to switch the red yellow and brown cable around and then it worked perfectly.
Thank you sir, I followed along and it was an easy install. Only issue I had is that my laptop would not install the drivers for the main board, so I hooked it up to my desktop and the firmware installed without issue. Getting perfect first layers!
Hello, first of all, great work. worked great. Instructions top bracket top. Now I have printed and installed a new air duct with a BLT holder. Now I have the problem that the BLT leaves the bed at the third measuring point and the process is aborted. Does the mod only work with one bracket? Or you can adjust the travel path so that it hits the third point at the LVL on the bed and does not go a few centimeters too far over the end of the bed and so the journey ends in nothing. I haven't been around for long and I need some help with it. Please keep it up and thank you for your work.
Hi, you will need to alter the z probe offset in the firmware so it knows where the probe is and doesn't go off the bed. This is in the main board firmware not the screen. Its about halfway down the configuration.h file from memory.
What if the bed is not correctly leveled before doing this process? Will the bltouch detect it? Or the bed needs to be perfect leveled before installing bltouch?
Hello to the X1 V.4 owner ! Please tell me, did you you wire it as explained in this video (Yellow/orange/brown/white) or as some comments suggested (Brown/Orange/Yellow/White) in order to make it works ? Also did you flashed the original files from this video or a later version ? Best regards,
PDF is in the download file on 3duk. I got the 4 pin connector with my BLTouch kit, some people say they didn't get one, if you didn't then search for a long pin connector.
I am finally getting this done. My BLTouch and M3's should be here this week. I am gathering the requirements.. it says 2 mounting screws.. What size and length would that be?
Where can I find a proper guide for setting up Marlin 2.0 for BL touch on the X1 ? Im using an SKR1.3 with Marlin 2.0 on my X1, and I need to be able to set up my own firmware instead of using the pre-made ones. I cant use other guides as this setup does not use the Zmin function of the BLtouch and I can find no other guides using a seperate Zmin with the Bltouch plugged into the Zmax pin.
Thank you. Omfg thank you. Only one thing was different in my particular setup. I had to flip the brown wire to the motherboard. I did it the same way as the video but the bltouch just flashed and didn't self test. After flipping that wire everything worked perfectly. On another note, my motherboard is slightly different and not as color coded.
Great Vid, very happy about the use of the LED plug for the wire up!. I did notice in the PDF that the plugs layout on the main board did not match the plug orientation as in the vid. I followed the Vid and also flipped the plug to be Brown/orange/yellow like others have with BLTouch 3.1v. Base profile is pretty good and will only need a few tweaks, big THANK YOU! for the firmware hex and display package that saved me a ton of time on compiling my own.
Hey David, glad it helped and many thanks for taking the time to reply. I should be releasing a new Marlin version in the next few weeks, just an updated version to keep inline with the current release.
@@Waggster First off, thanks for this great mod! In relation to Marlin, I was just about to ask if you're going to update Marlin to the current 2.0.2 version sometime soon. I haven't received my X1 yet, but want to be ready for when it arrives! Also, it might be a good idea to provide the individual config files that you've modified so we can compile newer versions ourselves. Are you modifying any files other than Configuration.h and Configuration_adv.h? Cheers!
@@FernandoAlvesJr thanks for your comments. The source is already included in the download in the expert folder so you should have everything you need. It's been a while since I did it but I may of altered the pins file too. I will be releasing a update when I do the Genius bltouch howto video.. :)
I'm looking for help. I did everything like the author said. I leveled the bed with auto bed level, reached perfect z height with babystep. But when I start a new print right after it, z height is reset and I gotta babystep it again. That way I can't get perfect 1st layer. What did I miss?
Thanks for the Guide, but I noticed after doing this process the noise level of the motors increased significantly. About 8-10 decibels higher depending on which part of the printing process it is on, I have an X1 v4, has anyone else had this happen?
Hey there, I have a V4 Sidewinder and am running into issues with my LCD. Essentially I cannot get it to flash - I unplugged the LCD ribbon before uploading the firmware - uploaded firmware - reattached LCD - unplugged USB - and have the necessary files on a micro and normal usb - tried both one variants - no matter what, I cant get the LCD to flash and bootup with the new firmware - any input? All my files are in the root of the folder and I have it reading from the appropriate source on the printer.
Make sure your microsd card is under 16gb and formatted as fat32. You can not update via usb. Just follow the video and you should be okay. Let me know how you get on. Thanks Steve
My sensor has been nothing short of a nightmare of installation. I wish my install had gone this easily. Upon flashing the tft all I see is a screen that says 'booting' and never changes and the BL touch constantly just gives the slow red flash of a self test fail. :( I do love this walk though and the detail that went into it.
Ran this upgrade on my Sidewinder. This video, PDF and site were the perfect guides to follow. I found I had to flip my mainboard cable 180 degree. I made the mistake of trying to flash LCD with 64 GB micro. Beware use 16GB or Less for your Micro. Spent hours trying to diagnose an issue that turned out to just be Micro size.
Fantastic video and guide. Just have one question, in the PDF it appears the brown wires are inverted 180 degrees from what the video shows, and also are installed on the 3rd row of pins not the 4th. Would just like to confirm which is correct. I will assume the video is correct and the PDF is not. The PDF does say to use the 4th row of pins. Mostly wondering about the orientation of the plug. For now I will do it just like shown in the video and see how I get on.
Hey Jay, thanks for the kind comments. It's the fourth row as in the video and my connector went as shown.. BUT others have had to swap it around to get it to work correctly. Its the center pin that's positive so you won't cause any damage if its the wrong way around to start with.. So if it doesn't work first time, just rotate it 180 degrees :-) Good luck and let me know how you get on. Steve
In case anyone is wondering, for my printer anyway, the silver contact side of the plug needed to be towards the black wire, not away from it as shown in the video. And it does go on the 4th row of pins.
Thank you for this tutorial! I did this on my Sidewinder X1, with a 3D Touch sensor, and also swapped the main board for a Duet2. The only problem that occurred then: The 3D Touch would always go through a self-test when the 24V part fan started. I solved this by soldering a 220uF electrolytic capacitor to the repurposed +3.3V and GND pins of the PCB (where I plugged in the 3D Touch sensor).
@@zaneruckman7556 and me - the TFT is just black after flashing the firmware so couldn't get as far as flashing the TFT : ( I'm on a V4 and I have a red and black cable running from the TFT board to the main board which isn't present in the video or the pdf
hi thx for a great guide. have you got the problem that the bltouch does not trigger when hitting the bed durring a home process. mine just slams into the bed. my sidewinder is the newest so i gees it is v4
i have been fighting this for a couple weeks now, my z wont home. Goes up BLtouch cycles the tip then faults. Also ran gcode for testing the bltouch and it is working properly. I understand that going up is part of the program, but i cant get it to home so i can set the z offset.
Where did you get your 4 pin male connectors from?I ordered some from amazon but they seemed slightly smaller in diameter and were not long enough to make good contact in either the bltouch plug or the rgb light plug.Thank you
The ones on amazon marked as "led connectors" are smaller and don't work well at all. I haven't found larger ones and I didn't want to wait for shipping so I built my own using some stiff aluminum single strand wire that was the right size.
Thank you for your hard work I love this mod only problem is I recently upgraded to the hemera extruder but I want to keep the settings for the bltouch from your mod I was wanting to know if it was possible for you to send me the Marlin ini file or at least the configuration H for the bltouch so I can match the settings please
@Waggster Hello, what an excellent idea to fit the bltouch on the LED instead of having cable ribbon on cable ribbon. I wanted to apply your method and struggled a bit to identify the wires to reposition. I managed to fit the 3-wire but lo and behold: the third pin on which I should fit the single black wire on the motherboard is missing (there are only two pins instead of 3)! I blame Murphy! I have a sidewinder version 5. Is there an alternative position? Thanks in advance for your reply.
Hi there. After updating i have a strange issue with the latest Marlin fw. When it homes in the center the extruder hits the build plate and keep on going down. I have to switch it off to make it stop
Thank you for the video, I have been trying to do this on my version 3 sidewinder x1. We did everything as instructed but the touchscreen isn't responding and its not reading any temperature. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I don't have power to the bltouch. I have it set up right but if not getting any electricity. I tested with a oscilloscope and plugged the led back and they didn't turn on either. What am I doing wrong?
Hi, excellent tutorial, super easy to follow. I have a question about the Reset EEPROM button - does it only need to be pressed once at the start of the installation, or does it need to be reset each time you do a Start Z Offset? Also, do you know if the Reset EEPROM will delete the EEPROM settings from a PID tune? Thanks!
Hey, Thank you for the extensive guide. Maybe you could include how and where to plug in the Mainboard cooling fan as I rather watched out for not ripping it off during opening the case instead of checking where it was actually plugged in. Wasn't able to find the right location until now.
If anyone else ever runs into that problem: The mainboard cooling fan is plugged into the bottom right corner socket (2 pins only), which is white and has the matching slots for the fan cable connector. This location description applies when the printer lies on its left side, which means that the mainboard is on the top.
So, excuse me if I don't understand this. You had to fine tune the first layer baby stepping by hand, so what is the point of adding "auto bed levelling"?
the baby stepping is to fine tune it for the best first layer. In the code when you initially tell it where exactly the bltouch is located relative to the hot end, you can only get so close, so the baby stepping is fine tuning, after that you are good. It's also very recommended that you level your bed first to make it as flat as possible to the hot end. Doing so makes things so much easier. I hope that makes sense.
@@andrewafrican Thanks. I was told, though, that for the marlin firmware flashing, you really do need prusa slicer. Is that so? Or are we talking about the same process now?
@@FuriousImp I used Prusa slicer to push through the new firmware because that is what the recipe called for and I wanted to avoid a flop. That said, it is my understanding that other slicers can be used to flash the firmware on a 3d printer. It should be possible to use Cura to do the mod.
Hi Steve, cheers for your work. Have you tried g34 z stepper auto align? What I'm getting at is can I just uncomment it in your firmware? Or have you not adjusted any of the values?
I have done the conversion, however, it is very difficult in parts. The mainboard is simply clogged with hot glue. You have to work like a dentist to get the connectors down and the new needed pins free. I also noticed that the new position of the 3 pin connector is very close to the next pins when you put the connector in the new position. I have insulated the connector on this side. The 1 pin connector is not very tight, you should stabilize it additionally with a cable tie into the right position. Well the rest worked very well (thanks Waggster). I will now try out whether this helps me in printing, because I had the suspicion that the Z position was slightly different each time again. I have one more question for Waggster. Is it possible to implement the configuration from the Arduino Configuration.h into other firmware types, if the hardware connection is correct? What I noticed after the upgrade from Nexus 1.1.9 to your version, the Z Stepper suddenly have a vibration that was not there before. Can this be?
I am having a major problem doing this on the Genius. The probe seems to be working fine, but when homing and doing the 2nd bump, the printer halts and needs a reset.... Any ideas? Did not find anything that worked online...
Hi i have a problem when i press home at i come to the mittel it rases a bit and goes in error :stop called because of bltouch error i have black from probe in Z- is white not used
i have a odd problem, ive used this mod for a while now but when printing the probe randomly deploys and then errors out any fix would be helpfull, i have a sx1 with skr 1.4turbo
I have installed V1.5 over V1.3. Sometimes (1 time out of 2) I have M999 error, or G28 don't work (X is not reseted correctly). Sometimes the BLTouch doesn't go down correctly. Before with V1.3 BLTouch works fine. I think I have X1 V4. Are there other cases like me ?
Hope you're doing well during the current situation. I installed the BLTouch several months ago and loved it. Recently the BLTouch stopped deploying the probe on home. I tried to manually send the code to deploy it to no avail. I replaced the PCB on the right side of the extruder, replaced the BLTouch, replaced both ribbon cables, went back through this video, re-wired the probe to the main board, re-flashed the main board and re-flashed the screen. It is still exhibiting the same behaviour. Do you have any advice at all where I can go from here? Thanks in advance for any help. Jon
I was able to install everything and flash the files. When i run G29 the bltouch comes down 3 times at each point and it has a probe grid of 8x8 i cant figure out why.
Hey Waggster, Thank you very much for the video in Malaysia, the only BL touch available is V3.1, what I wonder is does it matter which version of BL touch is used?
Made the mod but have a few questions. Where can I get a copy of your input config bundle? and it seems my BLTouch does not click when doing the bed level test and the blue light is very dim. It is a real BLTouch bought direct from MatterHackers. and last it seems my prints will go no higher than 6.950 in the Z axis. Sorry if these have been asked and answered before, I read til my eyes got tired and thought I'd just ask the expert.
If I click pause and continue afterwards, My extruder will reverse and instand of pushing Fillament in it will push it out. Could you fix that? Also motors are louder now.
Thank you for your help!!! If I pause the printing from the tft and restart it, the extruder does not work, the extruder only mobe for retraction. I have printing with Simplify and It does not happend, It seems to be the problem in PrusaSlicer. I hope any idea and if it happends to the rest of you. Thank you!!
Hey I have a huge and very annoying problem... I Installed this whole mod and basically it works fine. The thing is, that my Z Offset always varys and I don´t know why... My bedleveling is perfect, but I have to readjust the Z Offset by the Babystep function on every single print individually, even if I print two 20min objects right after another, I have to readjust it. Normaly my Babystep is set to around 2.3mm and I have to vary between 2.2-2.4mm. So on smaller objects, where I can´t see the first layer, I have either to print a bigger skirt which I see or a circle around, so I can correct the babysteps in order to gain a good first layer. The 2.2-2.4 effect in either no bed adhesion at all or its so tight, that it squeses the fillament to the sides... :( I hope someone can help me here in this case!!! PLEASE!!! I looked for so many things, but cant find a solution, I don´t know if it is hardware or software?! Thanks in advance!! Greetings from Germany
Hi, Firmware installation went well. As soon as I press home I get BLtouch error restart with M999. Probe never deploys. I have switched the cable 180 but that results in a very dim red blinking light on the probe. Been at it 2 hrs now with a multimeter and no joy. Probe is genuine ourchased from reprap world. Any advice would be gratefully received.
@@zwiederwurzn I know on paper the hardware is the same but do you have a v4 Florian? I can't weigh up why some folk are having issues but most aren't.
@@zwiederwurzn same issue here with my v4 and bltouch 3.1. i had to turn the connecter 180 around. now the red light of the bltouch shows up but gave me a M999 error. checked everything twice and the connector came loose a little bit and had a faulty contact. i modified the connector by trimming the edges a bit and make room for the capacitators who block the connector a bit. now everythings works fine.
I noticed that when the probe take measures (takes 25 probe) take them 20cm on the left side and 5cm from the right side.. so seems to be not centered and some layer on the fight side are not correct..
I have a v4 x-1 and installed a bltouch 3.1. Its wired correctly and responds to deploy and retract commands perfectly, however a g28 only works 33% of the time as it decides to not deploy. It works if I use the reset probe command a few times from the touchscreen. Any ideas on that?
Hi there. At first i have to say thank you! Nice video. I also want to upgrade my X1 to do automatically bed leveling. There are some questions, i hope you are able to answer these :). Is it also possible to use the profile with Cura slicer? Wich package i have to buy to also get the correct screws in, is there any marketplace selling it completely? Thank you, Luukullus
I have a sidewinder x1 and added the bltouch v3.1 to the printer I followed this guide and realized the the 3 prong connector with the brown wires need to be installed in the opposite orientation than shown in this guide if that helps anyone out who is having issues. Thank you by the way for this guide it definitely has alot of good information in it.
Thank's for the share! I had the same problem with mine, but inversing the wires fixed the problem. :D
Ditto. Reversed brown wire orientation and everything worked great. Worth noting that my MKS Gen L board had many differences from the diagram, primarily color of sockets. Also, blobs of hot glue everywhere, that had to carefully be removed in some cases. After opening this thing up, I am inclined to move all of the internals to a separate box/console like the Creality machines.
THANK YOU! I just spent 2 hours hitting my head against the wall trying to figure out why it wasn't working for me
THIS NEEDS TO BE PROMOTED TO THE DESCRIPTION. I seriously spent a week trying to debug this.
@@nechelly1218 do you know if thats the same with BLTouch V3.0?
I didnt have the 4 pin connector so I soldered the wires to the solder joints instead. Also, the brown connector is installed incorrectly at 7:30 and correctly @ 10:45. However, if you have capacitors blocking then you can instead invert the yellow and brown wires instead of flipping the connector on the board on the bottom of the machine. I had trouble flashing in the software, it was reading RAMPS. I had to update the driver for the device in windows 10 device manager. Hope this helps someone
I found the right connectors for this mod! For anyone that wants the 4 pin connector for this mod, search for this: DIKAVS Break Away Headers 2.54 mm Male Pin Header Connector - 40-pin Male Long Centered (Pack of 10)
The pins are long like the one in this video and they worked for me.
@@twosuns20 Thank you for this!!! I too have been searching for hours for this part.
which brown and yellow wires? please post a pic.
I have artillery sidewinder V4 and 3.1 bltouch, and I have to install it the Yellow/red/brown wire in the opposite way, so it works (Y)
-Thanks for sharing this tutorial.
Sir, you are my hero! Thank you!
So instead yellow/orange/brown/white, it's brown/orange/yellow/white?
I also have the Sidewinder v4 and 3.1 bltouch. Pressing home causes the bltouch to smash into the bed after switching the cables. Any ideas why this is happening?
You're my hero thank you!
Solved my problem, thank you so much
Hello, the website is not avalaible ?
22:15 Hi, how can I get this configuration bundle? I didn't see that on the link and zips you gave me.
best BL touch installation video I've found thus far! great work. 👍
Thanks to the OP for describing this mod! There are mixed messages in the chat below so just to clarify: I have a Sidewinder X1 V.4 and this mod works with the wiring set up as first described @7mins in (i.e., with the brown wire 3-pin cable on the motherboard having the silver bit pointed 'up' towards the capacitors). My board was litterally filled with hot glue everywhere, no chance of picking it out without first heating with a hot air gun. Be careful it quickly melts to a goo that runs everywhere! The provided firmware works OK but is now quite an old version. I tried first installing with a different and newer version (2.0.5.3) which installed OK but I was getting errors operating the BLTouch. I returned to the older version (provided with this mod) to get it functional but only later realised my wiring was incorrect and I'm guessing it would now actually work. I have not tried installing the newer Marlin version again though because I was just relieved to get the damn thing working at last! I will likely have another attempt later.
For reference: I had cut off the plugs and shortened the wires from the BLTouch, soldering them to block of 4 pins from a length of 2.54mm pitch male PCB header pins. These are available anywhere. The soldered pin ends were protected with heatshrink tube and then the lot covered with a blob of hot glue, that offers the shortest length 'plug' which helps as space is tight. My mistake - using white heatshrink tube which led me to insert the 'plug' the wrong way around at the hot end! Don't do that, the BLTouch gets very hot but thankfully suffered no permanent damage. Just a load hassle before I realised the error I had made.
Thank you very much for your tutorial and the afford you put into it and especially the PDF file. I did this mod two days ago and after some test prints I can say, that it works excellent. Absolutely brilliant! The thing I like most, is the fact that you don't have to add any cables from the x-carrige to the board.
Well done! Thanks a lot man!
could you make an updated video to the 1.5v. I do not understand the rewiring part
Thank you for sharing, your detailed instructions and setup files made it an easy mod. I have original BL-touch V3.1 I did not notice any flashing after I setup Z-offset.
Thank you so much! This is probably the most detailed BL Touch tutorial and it answered all my questions. 👍👍👍
Thank you for the instructions, I just got the artillery sidewinder V4 and Bltouch 3.1, everything is working, it's awesome, i printed a several parts using your PLA profile, now I'm about to venture into petg, not sure if this thread too old to be adding comments
Dear friend, would you share with me if you used .zip for Bltouch version 1.0 or 1.5 from the auther's website? And which version of Marlin did you use? I'm struggling because my artillery is V4 and Bltouch V3 and it's much newer than auther's hardware. Thank you.
@@AuBurn077 Sorry I can't help much, I gave the Sidewinder to a friend almost a year ago, I looked in my folder and I have both 1.0 and 1.5 so I don't remember which one I use, I vaguely remember having issues with 1.5
@@comfour77 thank you anyways. I used the newest version and it worked.
Great instruction! Thank you. You've given me the confidence to attempt this mod!!
hope it goes well Paul 👍
Thanks for the great video. I just got my sidewinder and need to add the bltouch and this helps a lot since I am new at 3d printing
This is old and out of date so unless you travel back in time and find an old Sidewinder and out of date BLtouch it won't work on newer printers, the newest BL touch wiring is White/Black/Yellow/Brown/Blue, so if doing this mod as instructed, you are wiring what? White/Brown/Blue/Yellow? doesn't work. White/Blue/Brown/Yellow? I get a blue light and nothing else.
18:25 (Personal Note may not accurate.)
-Reset EPROM
-Start Z-Offest.
-Use paper to calibrate, after finished press up for two times.
-Go Prusa Slicer, import Bltouch configuration.(24:00)
-Nozzle too high moves down, too low moves up.
and how do you save the offset?? if I reset the printer, I have to recalibrate the bltouch
Thanks for the step-by-step instructions, you really helped me! I solved the screen firmware problem with your help. Know at least 1 person you made a little happier)) Thank you!
You made something difficult into child's play. Thank you for the amazing work in making this wonderful printer that much better!
Hi, many thanks for your kind comments
been a while not printing I had your mod on it and was working great just started making a few bits now and no issues at all and then had a problem with one of the prints I was doing and now the touch now will not stop and just crashes in to the bed I have changed ribbon cables new touch and wires new ribbon boards still does the exact same when levelling I have also tried other mod software but still the same. I am going to put the original end stop on and revert back and remove the touch to see if the issue is still there also all of the wiring has been checked a number of times ... I dont have a copy of your original files now as my original laptop got stolen and was on there...... GUTTED as no one will share or have it. But was great when working
@brianbird6705 I'm pretty sure I have it, I'll check soon, not sure best way to get it to you though
Hi That would be brilliant but im not sure either as of yet might do a temp email address thats if i can post one on here
@@brianbird6705 actually that would probably be the best way 😅
I will get that done many thanks for any help
@@spencerkapp8034
Thank you for instructional video. How do you enable the High Speed mode? Thank you!
Hi, where do you get the 4 pin connector? I bought some from amazon but the pins are shorter than the one in the video. Is there a specific model number for the 4 pin connector?
I found the right connectors for this mod! For anyone that wants the 4 pin connector for this mod, search for this: DIKAVS Break Away Headers 2.54 mm Male Pin Header Connector - 40-pin Male Long Centered (Pack of 10)
The pins are long like the one in this video and they worked for me.
at 7:22 you say to mount the 3 brown wire with the silver pins facing up but in the PDF there facing down which one is it? you cant have the 3 brown wires facing up because there is a resistor in the way?
Its as the video as you see that working, it does however fit both ways. Also depending which version you have it does need to be flipped the other way. The good news is its the center pin thats positive so you won't do any damage if its the wrong way, it just won't work.
@@Waggster so if I have the 3 brown wires with the silver pins facing down it will still work because I really cant mount it the other way because the resistor is in the way the only way around that is if I cut the corner off the connector?
@@Warhorse469 if you say it only fits one way then you have answered your own question. I didnt need to cut anything but mine would fit both ways.
Thank you sir- that was excellent! Only change I had to make was flipping wires 1 and 3 on the 3 wire plug to make it fit. On my board, there are capacitors in the way so I couldn't fit the plug in the way it needed to go.
worked again on my third SX1, thanks for an awesome tutorial
where did u find the files????
i never saved mine from the start (stupid me) and need them again
@@hammerbugg I saved them on my computer
@@steel15172 do u know if they still exist on any sites? Would u be able to share them here through google drive?
Cheers Mark
@@hammerbugg give me your email and I can try to send them to you
I cant. RUclips keeps deleting the message 😢
I found the right connectors for this mod! For anyone that wants the 4 pin connector for this mod, search for this: DIKAVS Break Away Headers 2.54 mm Male Pin Header Connector - 40-pin Male Long Centered (Pack of 10)
The pins are long like the one in this video and they worked for me.
I have artillery sidewinder V4 and 3.1 bltouch, I had no problem with the install and I thank you very much, But I was wondering how to enable high speed probing, I used the hex file for the install and was hoping to, NOT have to re flash the firmware to accomplish this...THX
did you figure it out?
@@SergeiBlokhin1 yup a lot of upgrades since then. 👍
Great info. I've had my Artillery for about a week now and just starting to tune it. I was digging on the EEPROM Disabled message and working through that.
Where did you get the male pin adapter that you put in the bl touch to connect to the board?
I have just completed this mod, however, when I do the z axis alignment, the nozzle crashes into tge bed. I can't figure out what I've done wrong. I'm using a 3d touch and have followed the instructions to the letter. Any ideas?
ok, we found the problem. With the 3d touch, the machine must be on when using the calibration disc - well at least for me
@@jack6539 Mine in crashing when I home. Was your problem similar to this? How did you fix it?
Thanks for the amazing tutorial and instructions. I had problem with my SD card and it seems the LCD can not use a 32 GB card (or maybe it was formatted wrong) so I used a 4 GB one I had and it worked. also my BL touch was just blinking red and I had to switch the red yellow and brown cable around and then it worked perfectly.
Thank you sir, I followed along and it was an easy install.
Only issue I had is that my laptop would not install the drivers for the main board,
so I hooked it up to my desktop and the firmware installed without issue. Getting perfect first layers!
Hello, first of all, great work. worked great. Instructions top bracket top. Now I have printed and installed a new air duct with a BLT holder. Now I have the problem that the BLT leaves the bed at the third measuring point and the process is aborted.
Does the mod only work with one bracket? Or you can adjust the travel path so that it hits the third point at the LVL on the bed and does not go a few centimeters too far over the end of the bed and so the journey ends in nothing. I haven't been around for long and I need some help with it.
Please keep it up and thank you for your work.
Hi, you will need to alter the z probe offset in the firmware so it knows where the probe is and doesn't go off the bed. This is in the main board firmware not the screen. Its about halfway down the configuration.h file from memory.
@@Waggster Big Thx
What if the bed is not correctly leveled before doing this process? Will the bltouch detect it? Or the bed needs to be perfect leveled before installing bltouch?
Hello to the X1 V.4 owner !
Please tell me, did you you wire it as explained in this video (Yellow/orange/brown/white) or as some comments suggested (Brown/Orange/Yellow/White) in order to make it works ?
Also did you flashed the original files from this video or a later version ?
Best regards,
This is not completely clear to me, What PDF?( 3:00 ) Where do I get the 4 pin connector you used at: 2:37?
PDF is in the download file on 3duk. I got the 4 pin connector with my BLTouch kit, some people say they didn't get one, if you didn't then search for a long pin connector.
where did you guys get the 4 pin connectors. the ones i ordered are way to short
They are called pin headers. The length of the pins can be adjusted by sliding them up or downwards.
Thank you so much for this tutorial and all the effort you put into that. Worked for me like a charm on my V4 Sidewinder.
I am finally getting this done. My BLTouch and M3's should be here this week. I am gathering the requirements.. it says 2 mounting screws.. What size and length would that be?
Where can I find a proper guide for setting up Marlin 2.0 for BL touch on the X1 ? Im using an SKR1.3 with Marlin 2.0 on my X1, and I need to be able to set up my own firmware instead of using the pre-made ones.
I cant use other guides as this setup does not use the Zmin function of the BLtouch and I can find no other guides using a seperate Zmin with the Bltouch plugged into the Zmax pin.
I to would like to see a video on this.
Thank you. Omfg thank you. Only one thing was different in my particular setup. I had to flip the brown wire to the motherboard. I did it the same way as the video but the bltouch just flashed and didn't self test. After flipping that wire everything worked perfectly. On another note, my motherboard is slightly different and not as color coded.
Why would you let the bed get cooled before shutting the printer down?
Hi all - i'm getting the issue of the BLtouch probe dropping during a print when the part cooling fan starts - is there a fix for this?
Great Vid, very happy about the use of the LED plug for the wire up!. I did notice in the PDF that the plugs layout on the main board did not match the plug orientation as in the vid. I followed the Vid and also flipped the plug to be Brown/orange/yellow like others have with BLTouch 3.1v. Base profile is pretty good and will only need a few tweaks, big THANK YOU! for the firmware hex and display package that saved me a ton of time on compiling my own.
Hey David, glad it helped and many thanks for taking the time to reply. I should be releasing a new Marlin version in the next few weeks, just an updated version to keep inline with the current release.
@@Waggster First off, thanks for this great mod! In relation to Marlin, I was just about to ask if you're going to update Marlin to the current 2.0.2 version sometime soon. I haven't received my X1 yet, but want to be ready for when it arrives! Also, it might be a good idea to provide the individual config files that you've modified so we can compile newer versions ourselves. Are you modifying any files other than Configuration.h and Configuration_adv.h? Cheers!
@@FernandoAlvesJr thanks for your comments. The source is already included in the download in the expert folder so you should have everything you need. It's been a while since I did it but I may of altered the pins file too. I will be releasing a update when I do the Genius bltouch howto video.. :)
I'm looking for help. I did everything like the author said. I leveled the bed with auto bed level, reached perfect z height with babystep. But when I start a new print right after it, z height is reset and I gotta babystep it again. That way I can't get perfect 1st layer. What did I miss?
Thank you so much :) Using version 1.5 of Waggster runs perfect :)
Thanks for the Guide, but I noticed after doing this process the noise level of the motors increased significantly. About 8-10 decibels higher depending on which part of the printing process it is on, I have an X1 v4, has anyone else had this happen?
Hey there, I have a V4 Sidewinder and am running into issues with my LCD. Essentially I cannot get it to flash - I unplugged the LCD ribbon before uploading the firmware - uploaded firmware - reattached LCD - unplugged USB - and have the necessary files on a micro and normal usb - tried both one variants - no matter what, I cant get the LCD to flash and bootup with the new firmware - any input? All my files are in the root of the folder and I have it reading from the appropriate source on the printer.
Make sure your microsd card is under 16gb and formatted as fat32. You can not update via usb. Just follow the video and you should be okay. Let me know how you get on. Thanks Steve
@@Waggster You are a legend. A smaller micro and a quick format solved my issue. Thanks for the fast response!
My sensor has been nothing short of a nightmare of installation. I wish my install had gone this easily. Upon flashing the tft all I see is a screen that says 'booting' and never changes and the BL touch constantly just gives the slow red flash of a self test fail. :( I do love this walk though and the detail that went into it.
Ran this upgrade on my Sidewinder. This video, PDF and site were the perfect guides to follow. I found I had to flip my mainboard cable 180 degree. I made the mistake of trying to flash LCD with 64 GB micro. Beware use 16GB or Less for your Micro. Spent hours trying to diagnose an issue that turned out to just be Micro size.
Fantastic video and guide. Just have one question, in the PDF it appears the brown wires are inverted 180 degrees from what the video shows, and also are installed on the 3rd row of pins not the 4th. Would just like to confirm which is correct. I will assume the video is correct and the PDF is not. The PDF does say to use the 4th row of pins. Mostly wondering about the orientation of the plug. For now I will do it just like shown in the video and see how I get on.
Hey Jay, thanks for the kind comments. It's the fourth row as in the video and my connector went as shown.. BUT others have had to swap it around to get it to work correctly. Its the center pin that's positive so you won't cause any damage if its the wrong way around to start with.. So if it doesn't work first time, just rotate it 180 degrees :-) Good luck and let me know how you get on. Steve
In case anyone is wondering, for my printer anyway, the silver contact side of the plug needed to be towards the black wire, not away from it as shown in the video. And it does go on the 4th row of pins.
Thank you for this tutorial! I did this on my Sidewinder X1, with a 3D Touch sensor, and also swapped the main board for a Duet2. The only problem that occurred then: The 3D Touch would always go through a self-test when the 24V part fan started. I solved this by soldering a 220uF electrolytic capacitor to the repurposed +3.3V and GND pins of the PCB (where I plugged in the 3D Touch sensor).
I finally got it working! Thank you so much for the super in depth video
I have a question why the black cable of the bl touch is not attached to ground?
Hello,
Can I use this sensor for upgrading my genius?
Two Trees Bltouch
None of this worked for me and now the printer will not do anything now.
this just happened to me have you found a way to fix it?
@@zaneruckman7556 and me - the TFT is just black after flashing the firmware so couldn't get as far as flashing the TFT : ( I'm on a V4 and I have a red and black cable running from the TFT board to the main board which isn't present in the video or the pdf
Hey. I looked at my internal led cables and they were all superglued together. I do not know what to do to get it away. Do you have any ideas?
its just hot glue, use a heatgun to soften it and remove
I just used scissors.
hi thx for a great guide. have you got the problem that the bltouch does not trigger when hitting the bed durring a home process. mine just slams into the bed. my sidewinder is the newest so i gees it is v4
i have been fighting this for a couple weeks now, my z wont home. Goes up BLtouch cycles the tip then faults. Also ran gcode for testing the bltouch and it is working properly. I understand that going up is part of the program, but i cant get it to home so i can set the z offset.
Where did you get your 4 pin male connectors from?I ordered some from amazon but they seemed slightly smaller in diameter and were not long enough to make good contact in either the bltouch plug or the rgb light plug.Thank you
I had it floating around from an old arduino project.
The ones on amazon marked as "led connectors" are smaller and don't work well at all. I haven't found larger ones and I didn't want to wait for shipping so I built my own using some stiff aluminum single strand wire that was the right size.
Thank you for your hard work I love this mod only problem is I recently upgraded to the hemera extruder but I want to keep the settings for the bltouch from your mod I was wanting to know if it was possible for you to send me the Marlin ini file or at least the configuration H for the bltouch so I can match the settings please
Hi Shawn, the source is already included in the 'expert' folder.
@Waggster Hello, what an excellent idea to fit the bltouch on the LED instead of having cable ribbon on cable ribbon. I wanted to apply your method and struggled a bit to identify the wires to reposition. I managed to fit the 3-wire but lo and behold: the third pin on which I should fit the single black wire on the motherboard is missing (there are only two pins instead of 3)! I blame Murphy! I have a sidewinder version 5. Is there an alternative position? Thanks in advance for your reply.
Hey, great video! done this to two of my printers now.. Can you please add the M600 pause at height feature. My M0 or M600 is not working anymore.
Where is the manual bed level option? It seems to be missing once i updated the firmware.
Hi there. After updating i have a strange issue with the latest Marlin fw. When it homes in the center the extruder hits the build plate and keep on going down. I have to switch it off to make it stop
Do you have to use prusa slicer or do the other ones (Simplify3D, cura) still work as well?
You can use any slicer you want, just make sure you add G29 after the G28 command in the slicer start gcode. This will initiate the autolevel routine.
Thank you for the video, I have been trying to do this on my version 3 sidewinder x1. We did everything as instructed but the touchscreen isn't responding and its not reading any temperature. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I don't have power to the bltouch. I have it set up right but if not getting any electricity. I tested with a oscilloscope and plugged the led back and they didn't turn on either. What am I doing wrong?
Hi, excellent tutorial, super easy to follow. I have a question about the Reset EEPROM button - does it only need to be pressed once at the start of the installation, or does it need to be reset each time you do a Start Z Offset? Also, do you know if the Reset EEPROM will delete the EEPROM settings from a PID tune? Thanks!
Hey,
Thank you for the extensive guide. Maybe you could include how and where to plug in the Mainboard cooling fan as I rather watched out for not ripping it off during opening the case instead of checking where it was actually plugged in. Wasn't able to find the right location until now.
If anyone else ever runs into that problem: The mainboard cooling fan is plugged into the bottom right corner socket (2 pins only), which is white and has the matching slots for the fan cable connector. This location description applies when the printer lies on its left side, which means that the mainboard is on the top.
So, excuse me if I don't understand this. You had to fine tune the first layer baby stepping by hand, so what is the point of adding "auto bed levelling"?
the baby stepping is to fine tune it for the best first layer. In the code when you initially tell it where exactly the bltouch is located relative to the hot end, you can only get so close, so the baby stepping is fine tuning, after that you are good. It's also very recommended that you level your bed first to make it as flat as possible to the hot end. Doing so makes things so much easier. I hope that makes sense.
OK got it working BUT, when I go to put in the prusa slicer config, it is NOT in the bundle as you depict on your video. Please update!
Thanks very much for the how to vid! Can I still use any slicer after this mod or will I have to use Prusa?
And what was the answer to your question? XD
@@FuriousImp Any slicer will run. Look up the start code to insert in your slicer to ensure bed leveling.
@@andrewafrican Thanks. I was told, though, that for the marlin firmware flashing, you really do need prusa slicer. Is that so? Or are we talking about the same process now?
@@FuriousImp
I used Prusa slicer to push through the new firmware because that is what the recipe called for and I wanted to avoid a flop. That said, it is my understanding that other slicers can be used to flash the firmware on a 3d printer. It should be possible to use Cura to do the mod.
@@FuriousImp I am not sure.
Hang on, where'd you get the LED plug for the BLTouch
What size connectors do you use to fit the LED plug?
Where can I get the M3x10 caphead screw and 4 pin connector
amazon
are the alterations in the base necessary? I opened my artillery genius and it looks different
Can i still use the pins on the board to activate led?
I moved them like in mod.
So the pins on the board free
Website no longer exsists.. Any new site ?
did yoy find the files?
Hi Steve, cheers for your work. Have you tried g34 z stepper auto align? What I'm getting at is can I just uncomment it in your firmware? Or have you not adjusted any of the values?
I have done the conversion, however, it is very difficult in parts. The mainboard is simply clogged with hot glue. You have to work like a dentist to get the connectors down and the new needed pins free. I also noticed that the new position of the 3 pin connector is very close to the next pins when you put the connector in the new position. I have insulated the connector on this side. The 1 pin connector is not very tight, you should stabilize it additionally with a cable tie into the right position. Well the rest worked very well (thanks Waggster). I will now try out whether this helps me in printing, because I had the suspicion that the Z position was slightly different each time again. I have one more question for Waggster. Is it possible to implement the configuration from the Arduino Configuration.h into other firmware types, if the hardware connection is correct? What I noticed after the upgrade from Nexus 1.1.9 to your version, the Z Stepper suddenly have a vibration that was not there before. Can this be?
I am having a major problem doing this on the Genius. The probe seems to be working fine, but when homing and doing the 2nd bump, the printer halts and needs a reset.... Any ideas? Did not find anything that worked online...
Hi i have a problem when i press home at i come to the mittel it rases a bit and goes in error :stop called because of bltouch error i have black from probe in Z- is white not used
i have a odd problem,
ive used this mod for a while now but when printing the probe randomly deploys and then errors out any fix would be helpfull,
i have a sx1 with skr 1.4turbo
I have installed V1.5 over V1.3. Sometimes (1 time out of 2) I have M999 error, or G28 don't work (X is not reseted correctly). Sometimes the BLTouch doesn't go down correctly. Before with V1.3 BLTouch works fine.
I think I have X1 V4.
Are there other cases like me ?
I got the same problem
Hope you're doing well during the current situation. I installed the BLTouch several months ago and loved it. Recently the BLTouch stopped deploying the probe on home. I tried to manually send the code to deploy it to no avail. I replaced the PCB on the right side of the extruder, replaced the BLTouch, replaced both ribbon cables, went back through this video, re-wired the probe to the main board, re-flashed the main board and re-flashed the screen. It is still exhibiting the same behaviour. Do you have any advice at all where I can go from here? Thanks in advance for any help.
Jon
I was able to install everything and flash the files. When i run G29 the bltouch comes down 3 times at each point and it has a probe grid of 8x8 i cant figure out why.
I can't figure this out. Flash firmware and lcd and lose all movement with my xyz.
Hey Waggster, Thank you very much for the video in Malaysia, the only BL touch available is V3.1, what I wonder is does it matter which version of BL touch is used?
Why you dont have to use the black cable?
The black cable is a shared negative so you don't need to use it.
Made the mod but have a few questions. Where can I get a copy of your input config bundle? and it seems my BLTouch does not click when doing the bed level test and the blue light is very dim. It is a real BLTouch bought direct from MatterHackers. and last it seems my prints will go no higher than 6.950 in the Z axis. Sorry if these have been asked and answered before, I read til my eyes got tired and thought I'd just ask the expert.
If I click pause and continue afterwards, My extruder will reverse and instand of pushing Fillament in it will push it out.
Could you fix that?
Also motors are louder now.
What is the size of the screws you need for the mount?
Thank you for your help!!! If I pause the printing from the tft and restart it, the extruder does not work, the extruder only mobe for retraction. I have printing with Simplify and It does not happend, It seems to be the problem in PrusaSlicer. I hope any idea and if it happends to the rest of you. Thank you!!
@CdRsKuLL what screws did you use to mount the bl touch and the wagster mod
Hey I have a huge and very annoying problem...
I Installed this whole mod and basically it works fine.
The thing is, that my Z Offset always varys and I don´t know why...
My bedleveling is perfect, but I have to readjust the Z Offset by the Babystep function on every single print individually, even if I print two 20min objects right after another, I have to readjust it.
Normaly my Babystep is set to around 2.3mm and I have to vary between 2.2-2.4mm.
So on smaller objects, where I can´t see the first layer, I have either to print a bigger skirt which I see or a circle around, so I can correct the babysteps in order to gain a good first layer.
The 2.2-2.4 effect in either no bed adhesion at all or its so tight, that it squeses the fillament to the sides... :(
I hope someone can help me here in this case!!! PLEASE!!!
I looked for so many things, but cant find a solution, I don´t know if it is hardware or software?!
Thanks in advance!!
Greetings from Germany
Hi, Firmware installation went well. As soon as I press home I get BLtouch error restart with M999. Probe never deploys. I have switched the cable 180 but that results in a very dim red blinking light on the probe. Been at it 2 hrs now with a multimeter and no joy. Probe is genuine ourchased from reprap world. Any advice would be gratefully received.
same here! First print went fine, autoleveling works fine. On next day i start the print and got the M999 error.
@@zwiederwurzn I know on paper the hardware is the same but do you have a v4 Florian? I can't weigh up why some folk are having issues but most aren't.
@@baughaninastorm jap v4 and bltouch 3.1
@@zwiederwurzn same issue here with my v4 and bltouch 3.1. i had to turn the connecter 180 around. now the red light of the bltouch shows up but gave me a M999 error. checked everything twice and the connector came loose a little bit and had a faulty contact. i modified the connector by trimming the edges a bit and make room for the capacitators who block the connector a bit. now everythings works fine.
I noticed that when the probe take measures (takes 25 probe) take them 20cm on the left side and 5cm from the right side.. so seems to be not centered and some layer on the fight side are not correct..
Are you looking at the nozzle or the probe pin when you are seeing this difference? The probe pin should be the one you need to watch
I have a v4 x-1 and installed a bltouch 3.1. Its wired correctly and responds to deploy and retract commands perfectly, however a g28 only works 33% of the time as it decides to not deploy. It works if I use the reset probe command a few times from the touchscreen.
Any ideas on that?
can this be done with cura?
Hi there.
At first i have to say thank you! Nice video.
I also want to upgrade my X1 to do automatically bed leveling.
There are some questions, i hope you are able to answer these :).
Is it also possible to use the profile with Cura slicer?
Wich package i have to buy to also get the correct screws in, is there any marketplace selling it completely?
Thank you, Luukullus