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Circular or hexagonal print bed

jbernardis

Circular or hexagonal print bed
May 03, 2013 01:15AM

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Does anybody out there make either a circular or hexagonal heated print bed besides the ridiculously priced seemecnc $70 model? It seems to me that either of these shapes would be a better fit for a delta, but I think a price in line with the reprap MK2 ($30- $40) is more what I had in mind.

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Polygonhell

Re: Circular or hexagonal print bed
May 03, 2013 01:34AM

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Trinity labs have a couple of round Kapton film heaters, the larger one requires 24V though.

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nicholas.seward

Re: Circular or hexagonal print bed
May 08, 2013 11:17AM

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QU-BD has an 8" for $20 but it is also 24V. You can use two PC power supplies or get a regular power supply.

I am sure that QU-BD will make custom ones for you if you are going into production.

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Polygonhell

Re: Circular or hexagonal print bed
May 08, 2013 12:17PM

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I should point out that one of the reasons that the Onyx is so expensive is you pay for printed circuit boards by the square cm (raw board area), and it probably needs 3x the board space of a Mk1 or Mk2 bed.

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jbernardis

Re: Circular or hexagonal print bed
May 09, 2013 12:53AM

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I think I'm just going to make do with an extra mk2 I have laying around. As I fine tune the printer, I'll revisit this.