How much power is needed to melt PLA? 5 W October 05, 2016 08:25AM |
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Re: How much power is needed to melt PLA? 5 W October 12, 2016 05:45AM |
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Re: How much power is needed to melt PLA? 5 W October 12, 2016 06:30AM |
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how could anyone design a hotend without knowing these numbers?
Re: How much power is needed to melt PLA? 5 W October 12, 2016 10:32AM |
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Re: How much power is needed to melt PLA? 5 W October 12, 2016 12:23PM |
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Yes. It is a linear relationship to the duty cycle. The RMS value is related to the square root of the pulse width. wikipedia Root_mean_squareQuote
Out of interest, is the power relationship to the square of the pulse width? I would have thought it was a linear relationship to the duty cycle.
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