When the AMS powers up, it feeds and retracts every loaded filament, which takes a while. I’ve started keeping the filaments out of the feeder tube until I plan to use it, to shorten the boot time. Do other people do this too?
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I just keep the printer on, it has standby mode. Do you turn off your printer between prints?
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I turn it off at night.
I turn the printer and AMS off when I don’t use it.
Yes, it takes a few minutes to power up, but I see no problem in that.
Then the printer is testing and he gives me a notice when I have to doe maintenance.
Sometimes, I also get the filament out the loading tube and leave the filament spool in the AMS.
It all depends on what I want to do next.
Even if you turn the printer on and then immediately tell it to print something, you still have to wait for a bunch of stuff to happen that generally takes much longer than the AMS startup (which is asynchronous with respect to the printer’s boot up). I struggle to think of a situation where waiting for the AMS would actually slow me down… but I’m not turning my printer off immediately after every print, only if I do not intend to print anything more in the next 24 hours or so.
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If that bothers you then turn off the update on startup of the AMS.
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Check your settings in the app. Under the AMS section. If the box is checked to reload or verify or some such… Is checked … then everytime the printer boots it’s going to check each and every loaded filament.
I turned this off after adding more AMS units… Because yeah… Checking all the colors can take a long time… Especially if you have 12-16…
Anyway, you can turn that off.
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Update on Startup. Thanks!
I just found that out in Gemini
I think that is why the filament on rarely used reels breaks in the PTFE. Too many times muched on by the feed motor! Reels that get used occasionally have fresh meat to get munched on and are used before this becomes a problem. It even seems to feel the need to test the reel that it shares the RFID reader with when you insert a new reel, compounding the problem. I turned off all three updates, and I will try for a while and see how I feel about turning it it off for reel insertion. I have a feeling I will want turn that back on. Also munching the adjacent reel seems like a bad idea. BTW, I had 12 reels mounted at a time, so it was even worse. I went to leave the reels I wasn’t going to use that day clipped to the reel, instead of ready.