As mentioned elsewhere, bought this P1S a few weeks back, been pretty good experience so far.
I’m not sure if I’m doing anything wrong but it’s very hit and miss whether it IDs the filament? I find myself having to manually choose it and then type in the colour code so it matches the website (I know this step isn’t essential, but it helps when using Studio to see the correct colours).
Is there a trick I’m missing? Shouldn’t it just…work?
It should work without tricks, but I’ve noticed it doesn’t always want to work as well. What helped, at least for me, was to take to spool out and put it back in a few times.
I wonder if the orientation of the spool matters when you put it in, whether there is some sort of alignment issue for the RFID tag (wherever it is). It must need to be quite precise, I suppose, so that the spools don’t confuse with each other.
I’m fairly new to the AMS, but the couple of times I had an issue, synching it helped. Also had one time where it didn’t respond to the new filament being inserted. Never pulled the filament further in and then back to a starting point. Pulled it out, reinserted and when it did the auto feed / positioning, it showed up correctly in BL Studio.
Thanks for the feedback, yes after removing and re-inserting all the spools as part of troubleshooting something else I found they were recognised. I guess it’s just a bit hit and miss.
It mostly works ok for me. When I have had occasional issues could it be related to RFIDs from adjacent rolls being picked up.
I wonder what the range of the RFID reader are, and how it avoids picking up the ids from adjacent rolls (or what algorithm it uses to ignore them if it does)
I think it may be that I was pushing the filament too far in to begin with after buying the machine. It doesn’t immediately “grab” it, does it, and I think I was impatiently pushing it further than I needed to.
Perhaps this then meant it didn’t rotate backwards and forwards like it usually does when you only insert it a short distance, and maybe this backwards/forwards rotation and generally faffing about it seems to do is about lining up the RFID so it can read it. Perhaps I was inadvertently making it skip this part.
Since I’ve just given it the short distance to “grab” it’s read it more reliably.