Beginner advice, Hardware serial ports April 03, 2016 11:50PM |
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Older as in Pre-Pentium? There is not a single 3D printer board i know of that directly supports RS232 and i have no idea why you would prefer it over USB. You are setting yourself up for a lot of hurt, extra work and utter frustration going this way. Printing from SD card is nothing fancy, it is a simple insurance against communication drops that ruin your hours long print.Quote
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As for the electronics side of things, I see alot of the printers connect to a computer via USB. I have an interest in using a much older computer with serial ports, is there any way to directly drive the printer via a serial port? I do not care about any fancy features on the printer side, things like printing from a sd card or fancy web interfaces, I just want to control the printer directly via a serial port.
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Older as in Pre-Pentium? There is not a single 3D printer board i know of that directly supports RS232 and i have no idea why you would prefer it over USB. You are setting yourself up for a lot of hurt, extra work and utter frustration going this way. Printing from SD card is nothing fancy, it is a simple insurance against communication drops that ruin your hours long print.
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Re: Beginner advice, Hardware serial ports April 08, 2016 04:41PM |
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What else does it tell us than to not use a heating element at 150% of it's rated voltage without any kind of control?
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Keep in mind that the power consumption is always the result of the voltage and the resistance.Quote
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Thx for the info Srek. 25Wt heater cartridges?