How to reset the Orion 3D printer when it loses it's marbles.

[Bill S.]

A few times now the Orion has lost it's marbles, and will just dive down&sideways whenever you tell it to print.

This is happening because of some firmware settings being changed, and those changes being saved into eeprom.

If you're slicing files at home, please make sure you don't have any M500 commands in your gcode header.

If you observe this behavior, here's how to reset it:

There's a file on the card, named "reset.gcode", just "print" that file, and it will revert the setting-overrides back to the factory defaults, 

and then write those settings to eeprom.  When it's done, the bottom line of the lcd will say "Yay Bill!".  :-)

Unfortunately the Z zero-height is one of the settings that gets reverted, so after printing reset.gcode, you'll need to recalibrate the zero

height.  This can be done from the printers lcd menu, and is very easy.  Afair, it's under 'printer settings' ---> "set Z zero", or something similar.

Basically you just home, jog the Z down so the nozzle is just barely touching the bed, and then select the "set Z zero" option from the menu,  takes about 30 seconds.

cheers,

       Bill

[Duane Johnson]

Thanks for looking in to this (again) last night, Bill. We still don't know where these stray M codes are coming from, but at least a non-Bill like expert can recover from that broken state now.

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