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Re: Is there an advantage to using IR to heat bed? August 30, 2014 03:45AM |
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The bed only moves on the Z.
Silicone still needs to be mounted on the build plate, and that would make mounting the plate extremely difficult, they're not something I can just drill a large hole through. I don't mind power so much as heating time.
I also am trying to really up the ante on looks. Besides the heating for bed and environment, I've got almost everything figured out in a slick, pleasing to the eye manner. I want the printer to look as good as it prints. I've done some out of the ordinary testing and an easily removable bed would be very useful, especially not having to worry about components attached to the underside of the bed.
I was also hoping to get premade components, but it looks like making my own heater is going to have to be the option taken to get what I want out of it. Looks like I have a lot of math to do. Any tips on where to start for calculating required power and wire/foil requirements?
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Re: Is there an advantage to using IR to heat bed? September 10, 2014 01:34PM |
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Thanks for the suggestions, but something as bulky as a waffle iron would be too much weight for the benefits in my mind. If worst comes to worst I know a few companies that will make custom shaped silicone/polymide film heaters.
I don't have any printed parts, and I plan to keep it that way the entire build. At a maximum, aesthetic parts will be printed, but I hope to avoid even that. I've most definitely got a thing against printed parts being on my printer, having had way too many breakdowns as a result of printed parts.
I wouldn't think IR would constitute any greater fire risk than direct if given the proper care in construction. The heaters would be fixed to the bed and move along with it, if not that would most definitely pose a fire hazard.
Right now I'm just looking at using my 300mmX300mm silicone heater until I get a supplier to custom make a polymide heater [keep weight and heat up time down] or figure out the overly complicated math and make one myself. Making your own heater seems to be an entire project by itself.
Any idea what heaters are used in these mats? If I could get a high power version of them, that would be splendid as they're flat.
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