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Measure the belts too. One cheap trick manufacturers do is use quarter inch wide, which have a slightly different pitch to G2 6mm belts.
It's not a huge difference but it does not work as well as using correct belt size.
That is exactly what I thought, and I never considered that built in drivers might have an advantageQuote
Driver chips soldered to the board are generally more reliable than those tiny driver modules that can't dissipate heat. It's usually easier and more accurate to set the motor current via the config file than to have to mess around with adjusting tiny, easily broken pots, while guessing at the motor current. Some people think "I want driver modules so they can be replaced easily when/if they fail.", but they're more likely to fail because they're little modules. What you really want is drivers that don't fail. If you buy a controller that uses driver modules, be sure to buy a handful of extras- you're going to need them. Most of the better controller boards have drivers soldered to the controller board and use the trinamic drivers that can reduce noise level through 256:1 ustepping. The Duet boards are very good.
again, I never thought of it this way but it makes sense. When thinking of printer mods, I lean towards better tramming and stiffer construction, but I had always though that rubber mounts would be a good way to dampen soundQuote
Rubber motor mounts can help reduce vibrations coupled to the printer's frame and resulting acoustic noise, but they also allow the belt tension to tilt the motor/shaft which affects the way the belt rides on the pulleys. Every time the motor reverses direction it tilts in a different direction. They are probably best used on motors that drive screws instead of belts. In a 3D printer, usually only the Z axis is screw driven, and rubber motor mounts won't do much to reduce noise there because the Z axis doesn't move much. If you want quality prints, you want to make things more ideal, not more sloppy. If the motors tilt, and the guide rails flex, and the frame flexes, how are you going to achieve the precision that quality printing requires?
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I don't know what your printer uses for linear bearings if it doesn't have smooth rods and LM8 bearings, but if you're up for that level of mechanical work, look into linear guides instead of end supported round rods. They are much more stable because they don't flex as much as the 8mm rods. A single linear guide can replace two round rails/bearings, so construction can be more compact, and it usually looks neater, too.
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