Geeetech A10

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Unboxing and Assembly

Assembling the Printer and getting to the Bootscreen on the LCD Panel took some 3 hours including documenting this with a camera and looking for ways to solve detail problems.

The first 1-2 hours went smooth unpacking and following the three different videos below. The videos mostly do not show some important details like

  1. selecting the correct screws
  2. attaching the display cable correctly

After two hours I contacted support since the display didn't work correctly. I then figured it out my self. I had to detach the display from its metal mount to get better access to the connector to fit the cable properly aligned. In my opion the cable is just

  • a bit too short
  • a bit too flimsy
  • and the connection is not properly documented

Parts and Tools


Unboxing and Assembly videos

The first video has more details than the other two!

LCD Connector

https://www.geeetech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61603 See pictures below for the fix

Example

ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx  1 wf  staff  9039257 Jun 27  2018 A10_dog.gcode

First Printout

The filament supplied with the printer is not sufficient to print the example Dog and it would take a few hours to get that printed. We therefore use the example from our BlocksCAD page setting the size to 5 which will lead to a small 2 g knot that can be printed in 10 minutes. You'll find the gcode file on our Cura page.

Support

Wiki

Contact

https://www.geeetech.com/technical_support.html

Dear Geeetech support,
after assembling the device see http://wiki.bitplan.com/index.php/Geeetech_A10
the display only has lit backlight but does not show any characters.
Please advise.

I am looking forward to your response.

Cheers
  Wolfgang