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1. Check your Prusa i3 before printing

Step 1 of 5 (Chapter 9 of 9)
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Please watch our video with the most common build problems and their solutions before printing. [http://www.prusa3d.com/buildvideoMK2]
Check your Prusa i3 before printing

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Original Prusa i3 MK2 kit assembly

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Alexander Hüls
hi Prusa team, i have a Prusa i3 MK2 kit which I hva assembeled. Now I wanted to continue the testing, but after updating to a new firmware (successful) I cannot find the selftest under setting. Why?
Ben Gruver
I stupidly clicked on the image.. and then stupidly clicked on the zoomed in image in the new tab expecting it to play the video.
Matt Paul
The link to the pre-flight check video yields a 404 :(
Alexis Vassilakas
I had got to this step, turned on the printer to calibrate and it started going through the checks - front fan, side fan, hotbed and then the led went red, heard a clack and it seems something shorted. i went through all the electronics setup and nothing seems wrong. Does anyone have an idea what i can do (Im very sad for my son who we built it together and he was very excited but started crying :( ). any ideas/help most welcome...

Btw Josef - i love your printer, i love the guides, the building experience was terrific and it was the most wonderful weekend right up until the end...
Andreas Nickel
Hi, Josef, I am also happy with the printer so far, it was a great experience to build one, but like Thierry, I have a similar problem here... I had the print manual open and decided to watch the calibration video to follow along... WOW! After the successful selftest, for the xy-calibration, I wanted to move the z-Axis all the way to the top from the LCD menu (just like in the video) and WHAM! X and Y axes leaped forward, stepper motors grinding, it took a second or two until I found the power switch... IMHO the firmware should prevent something like this to happen. Video and Manual can always be out of date a bit, and probably I made a mistake, but clearly the printer was not calibrated yet and such sudden and obviously out-of-range movements have to be avoided by the software. I am using firmware 3.0.9.