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?
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!