Migbot Prusa i3 Unofficial Support Thread

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Ahhh OK thanks for the tip

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How about this one ?

So you haven't even gotten the printer yet? Why don't you just try it with the current hotend? I mean the mk8 is no e3d but its not bad either. I get fine results with it.

If I was going to get a e3d a would probably just get the full one. If I am doing an upgrade like that I would want to be able to use hotter temperatures for different materials. Plus to make the e3d work you need to print new brackets...but if you don't already have a working printer how would you do it?

No I haven't got it yet and of course I'll have it running before I do a mod like that.

But its something I had been thinking about cause I want to go to a bowden extruder.
Unfortunately it was after I had bought this one and some how stumbled on that there is better not ends like the e3d.
Just part of playing the game I guess lol.

As far as the brackets and things of that nature goes, being a machinist I will design and build all that out of billet aluminum

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Ahhh OK thanks for the tip

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So you haven't even gotten the printer yet? Why don't you just try it with the current hotend? I mean the mk8 is no e3d but its not bad either. I get fine results with it.

If I was going to get a e3d a would probably just get the full one. If I am doing an upgrade like that I would want to be able to use hotter temperatures for different materials. Plus to make the e3d work you need to print new brackets...but if you don't already have a working printer how would you do it?

Any reason for the Bowden? Direct drive, to me, makes a little more sense, yes there's more weight on the X & Z axis with a Prusa, but pushing filament from a long distance through a tube can cause all worlds of headaches.

As for mounts, if you're going to go for a Bowden, you'll want it as light as possible as this is where a Bowden is probably better as it can achieve greater accelerations due to there being less weight, making a mount out of Aluminium would sort of negate some of that due to the weight. A printed part in this case is far superior.


No I haven't got it yet and of course I'll have it running before I do a mod like that.

But its something I had been thinking about cause I want to go to a bowden extruder.
Unfortunately it was after I had bought this one and some how stumbled on that there is better not ends like the e3d.
Just part of playing the game I guess lol.

As far as the brackets and things of that nature goes, being a machinist I will design and build all that out of billet aluminum

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

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You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

Garry

You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

I finally found time to work on the printer. The new 12V 62amp PS is working and the bed appears to be heating up very quickly. It's been about 5 min. or so and it's already up to 70C on it's way to 115 for ABS. Is it normal for the relay to get hot ....and I mean really hot on the bottom? I'm thinking it's gonna need a heat-sink?

I'm thinking about replacing the stock PS and running it all off the 62 amp. It came out of a server so it's a bit large for mounting on the printer frame. If I mount the whole thing on a ridged bottom platform I can make it all fit. I need to get it working first and print the mount for the auto leveler.

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Another issue ....I can't get the extruder nozzel at the correct height for printing. Last couple of attempts at printing the test cube failed because the nozzle dug into the tape on the bed. I had manually leveled the bed but, when it began printing the nozzle was too close to the bed.
How do I fix this problem?
I have a feeling I'm missing something in the calibration of the 3 steppers. Park seems to work OK but, "home" is not so good as the print nozzle ends up off the top left corner of the bed and the bed is fully retracted. Where should they be positioned for Home, Park, etc.?

Firmware is Malin and software is Repetier Host.

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Home is meant to do that. If you're manually levelling the bed, then you're not getting it right, assuming you have the correct firmware version. I'd personally re-flash the correct firmware to make sure, links are over on the Migbot wiki page,

then try again. If it still does it, try less and less drag on the paper until it's right, there's a knack to it which no-one can really teach you how to do and you have to learn what is right and wrong, and this varies from printer to printer, eg, what's right on my CTC/Flashforge Replicator X Pro, isn't the same for the Migbots. Keep at it and you'll get it right.

Thanks again. Sometimes I think I'm going crazy. I keep trying the same things over and over and expecting different results. I'll re-flash Marlin and try again.
I tried changing the nozzle height in the G code and that seemed to help ...a little. The nozzle still touched the tape but, it didn't rip it off the bed. However, I doubt the fix will be found there. I need to get it right.

I had a similar frustration with the auto bed leveling (I carved all kinds of images in the bed). This is the correct (for me) line from configuration.h file
#define Z_PROBE_OFFSET_FROM_EXTRUDER 0 // -below (always!)
I finally understood that the sheet of paper is really setting the bed height at ~1mm when the Z axis is set to zero. If your 1st layer height is to be 2mm then the firmware only raises the Z axis by 1mm to start the first layer, you end up with a first layer tightly packed against the bed. Once you have run the G28 Z command using the inductive sensor and manually leveled your bed using a sheet of paper then run the G29 command. BE SURE THAT THE X AXIS IS PARALLEL TO THE Y AXIS SMOOTH RODS THAT SUPPORT THE BED or auto bed leveling will not work, it can not correct for the X axis being out of level with the Y axis.
Don't give up it took me a considerable time to get it correct.
I check for parallel each day before printing. I have attached the file to print gauge sticks to make sure the axis are parallel. You will need to print two sticks one for each Y axis smooth rod. Place a gauge on each Y axis smooth rod and manually lower or raise the z axis until the X axis i barely touching the guages. The gauges are designed to be removed without disturbing the setting. Hope all this verbiage makes sense.

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

Garry

You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

I finally found time to work on the printer. The new 12V 62amp PS is working and the bed appears to be heating up very quickly. It's been about 5 min. or so and it's already up to 70C on it's way to 115 for ABS. Is it normal for the relay to get hot ....and I mean really hot on the bottom? I'm thinking it's gonna need a heat-sink?

I'm thinking about replacing the stock PS and running it all off the 62 amp. It came out of a server so it's a bit large for mounting on the printer frame. If I mount the whole thing on a ridged bottom platform I can make it all fit. I need to get it working first and print the mount for the auto leveler.

Shunting that much current through, yeah it's going to get warm. These SSR's aren't designed to handle that amount of current. I wouldn't even think of connecting that to the board. 15-20A at 24v is fine, or 30/35A at 12v is sufficient.

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

Garry

You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

I finally found time to work on the printer. The new 12V 62amp PS is working and the bed appears to be heating up very quickly. It's been about 5 min. or so and it's already up to 70C on it's way to 115 for ABS. Is it normal for the relay to get hot ....and I mean really hot on the bottom? I'm thinking it's gonna need a heat-sink?

I'm thinking about replacing the stock PS and running it all off the 62 amp. It came out of a server so it's a bit large for mounting on the printer frame. If I mount the whole thing on a ridged bottom platform I can make it all fit. I need to get it working first and print the mount for the auto leveler.

Shunting that much current through, yeah it's going to get warm. These SSR's aren't designed to handle that amount of current. I wouldn't even think of connecting that to the board. 15-20A at 24v is fine, or 30/35A at 12v is sufficient.

OK, good advice. I can live with two PS providing the power but, I'll need a bigger platform. The bed heats about twice as fast as before. Of course, there's much more area to heat and dissipate heat. I guess I can live with bed temps reaching 105C or so in about 25 min. It's probably a good idea to measure the amp draw on the bed circuit to make sure it's safe and put a heat-sink under the relay. It gets hot on the top but, blistering hot on the bottom.

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

Garry

You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

I finally found time to work on the printer. The new 12V 62amp PS is working and the bed appears to be heating up very quickly. It's been about 5 min. or so and it's already up to 70C on it's way to 115 for ABS. Is it normal for the relay to get hot ....and I mean really hot on the bottom? I'm thinking it's gonna need a heat-sink?

I'm thinking about replacing the stock PS and running it all off the 62 amp. It came out of a server so it's a bit large for mounting on the printer frame. If I mount the whole thing on a ridged bottom platform I can make it all fit. I need to get it working first and print the mount for the auto leveler.

Shunting that much current through, yeah it's going to get warm. These SSR's aren't designed to handle that amount of current. I wouldn't even think of connecting that to the board. 15-20A at 24v is fine, or 30/35A at 12v is sufficient.

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But the reason why I'm here reading this thread is that I'm having a problem with my migbot. I bought the extended size build platform, but the back ~40mm of it is unreachable by my extruder. My first thought was that the rods for the y axis were too short, but I've been in touch with Gary McKinney and he says that my parts are the right size. (~380mm for the smooth rods and ~400mm for the threaded ones is what I measured.)

Has anyone else had this issue? If you have the extended bed, could you please take a couple pictures of it from the bottom with the bed all the way forward and all the way back so I can try to compare and find my problem? I've also asked Gary for this, but haven't heard back from him yet. I've stared at it for quite a while, and I just can't see where I could have put it together any other way.

Thanks!

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

Garry

You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

I finally found time to work on the printer. The new 12V 62amp PS is working and the bed appears to be heating up very quickly. It's been about 5 min. or so and it's already up to 70C on it's way to 115 for ABS. Is it normal for the relay to get hot ....and I mean really hot on the bottom? I'm thinking it's gonna need a heat-sink?

I'm thinking about replacing the stock PS and running it all off the 62 amp. It came out of a server so it's a bit large for mounting on the printer frame. If I mount the whole thing on a ridged bottom platform I can make it all fit. I need to get it working first and print the mount for the auto leveler.

Shunting that much current through, yeah it's going to get warm. These SSR's aren't designed to handle that amount of current. I wouldn't even think of connecting that to the board. 15-20A at 24v is fine, or 30/35A at 12v is sufficient.

But that's not the way electricity works, as long as I understand you correctly. The bed heater will use the exact same current on a power supply that is 12V and 20A vs. one that is 12V and 65A. Heck, you could have one that was 12V and 1000A and it would still be the same. The amperage rating is the max that the power supply can offer, but the amount actually used is a function of V/R. (Well, also duty cycle, if that is used.) That's all assuming that you haven't hit the current limit that the power supply has. On mine with the control board on and running the bed heater on full, I had less than 11 amps at 12.2V.

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

Garry

You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

I finally found time to work on the printer. The new 12V 62amp PS is working and the bed appears to be heating up very quickly. It's been about 5 min. or so and it's already up to 70C on it's way to 115 for ABS. Is it normal for the relay to get hot ....and I mean really hot on the bottom? I'm thinking it's gonna need a heat-sink?

I'm thinking about replacing the stock PS and running it all off the 62 amp. It came out of a server so it's a bit large for mounting on the printer frame. If I mount the whole thing on a ridged bottom platform I can make it all fit. I need to get it working first and print the mount for the auto leveler.

Shunting that much current through, yeah it's going to get warm. These SSR's aren't designed to handle that amount of current. I wouldn't even think of connecting that to the board. 15-20A at 24v is fine, or 30/35A at 12v is sufficient.

But that's not the way electricity works, as long as I understand you correctly. The bed heater will use the exact same current on a power supply that is 12V and 20A vs. one that is 12V and 65A. Heck, you could have one that was 12V and 1000A and it would still be the same. The amperage rating is the max that the power supply can offer, but the amount actually used is a function of V/R. (Well, also duty cycle, if that is used.) That's all assuming that you haven't hit the current limit that the power supply has. On mine with the control board on and running the bed heater on full, I had less than 11 amps at 12.2V.

Yes, but that's not running through a Solid State relay. The board can only provide so much power, with a SSR, it'll draw all it can from the PSU as it's directly connected to the PSU and the on/off controlled by the board, via the relay, hence the SSR getting warm.

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Anyone gave thought about putting this on the under side of the bed? Maybe 2 or 3 layers

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Yeah, it's been 45 min. and it's just now reacing 105C. Previous high temp was about 85C with a piece of cardboard on top so, this is real progress. I replaced the 16 (?) gauge wire to the bed with 14 gauge copper stranded and insulated the back side of the bed with aprox. 1/8" cork. Wooohoooo ! Just checked and the bed temp is now at 107C. I forgot to cover it with tape so it may do better once I cool it down and apply the masking tape.

What's this about a seperate power supply and relay for the bed? I have a few very good switching PS that came out of servers (12v 1500 watt 46 amp}. What do I need to do to rig it up to the bed? Got a sketch of the hook up?

Garry

You'll need a DC-DC Solid state relay, something along the lines of a SSR-25 DD. Then wire it up like this

I finally found time to work on the printer. The new 12V 62amp PS is working and the bed appears to be heating up very quickly. It's been about 5 min. or so and it's already up to 70C on it's way to 115 for ABS. Is it normal for the relay to get hot ....and I mean really hot on the bottom? I'm thinking it's gonna need a heat-sink?

I'm thinking about replacing the stock PS and running it all off the 62 amp. It came out of a server so it's a bit large for mounting on the printer frame. If I mount the whole thing on a ridged bottom platform I can make it all fit. I need to get it working first and print the mount for the auto leveler.

Shunting that much current through, yeah it's going to get warm. These SSR's aren't designed to handle that amount of current. I wouldn't even think of connecting that to the board. 15-20A at 24v is fine, or 30/35A at 12v is sufficient.

But that's not the way electricity works, as long as I understand you correctly. The bed heater will use the exact same current on a power supply that is 12V and 20A vs. one that is 12V and 65A. Heck, you could have one that was 12V and 1000A and it would still be the same. The amperage rating is the max that the power supply can offer, but the amount actually used is a function of V/R. (Well, also duty cycle, if that is used.) That's all assuming that you haven't hit the current limit that the power supply has. On mine with the control board on and running the bed heater on full, I had less than 11 amps at 12.2V.

Yes, but that's not running through a Solid State relay. The board can only provide so much power, with a SSR, it'll draw all it can from the PSU as it's directly connected to the PSU and the on/off controlled by the board, via the relay, hence the SSR getting warm.

I am not sure why the SSR is getting hot. I use a SSR-25DD for the Bed and another SSR-25DD for the extruder. Neither gets warm. They heat up super fast. Since the current to the bed and extruder heater are connected to the the 12V bus and bypass the Control board all the FET's on the controller board run cool. The board can only handle 11 amps for the bed and extruder, anything more and you could burn out a copper trace. The SSR-25DD's remove the main load from the MKS board. The inputs to the SSR-25DD's are connected to the bed heater connection and the extruder heater connection. This arrangement also prevents low voltage on the control board.

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I am not sure why the SSR is getting hot. I use a SSR-25DD for the Bed and another SSR-25DD for the extruder. Neither gets warm. They heat up super fast. Since the current to the bed and extruder heater are connected to the the 12V bus and bypass the Control board all the FET's on the controller board run cool. The board can only handle 11 amps for the bed and extruder, anything more and you could burn out a copper trace. The SSR-25DD's remove the main load from the MKS board. The inputs to the SSR-25DD's are connected to the bed heater connection and the extruder heater connection. This arrangement also prevents low voltage on the control board.

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I am not sure why the SSR is getting hot. I use a SSR-25DD for the Bed and another SSR-25DD for the extruder. Neither gets warm. They heat up super fast. Since the current to the bed and extruder heater are connected to the the 12V bus and bypass the Control board all the FET's on the controller board run cool. The board can only handle 11 amps for the bed and extruder, anything more and you could burn out a copper trace. The SSR-25DD's remove the main load from the MKS board. The inputs to the SSR-25DD's are connected to the bed heater connection and the extruder heater connection. This arrangement also prevents low voltage on the control board.

Avoiding trying to push too much current through a trace on the board is a very good reason to use the relays!

I wonder if the relays were getting hot because they were being switched too fast with PWM rather than full on or full off? I don't know the firmware very well yet, but I did see something in there about PWM. The limited specs I've been able to find on the relays talk about a turn on time being equal or less than 10ms, which is pretty slow for switching silicon, of course. If that's being run in PWM then it will spend a LOT of time in the switching region, and burn a lot of power that way.

Are there settings somewhere in the firmware to limit the cycle time of the heater switching? The time constants are going to be so big that even a mechanical relay could probably do a decent job of it, if it was controlled well.

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That is not the problem the frequency for pwm is about 7Khz. The SSR can handle that and much more with no sweat. Full on and full off will not give you the control you need the temperatures would vary by a large amount. Before I added SSR-25DD my temps varied by 10 - 20 C which was problematic. The mechanical relay has a life cycle of 10 - 100k cycles so you would wear it out really fast and the clicking would drive me bonkers. You could set the control mode to bang which is just off/on like a light switch. The SSR turn on time is about 100 micro sec and the turn off time is about 750 micro sec. The mean time between failure is measured in decades.

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That is not the problem the frequency for pwm is about 7Khz. The SSR can handle that and much more with no sweat. Full on and full off will not give you the control you need the temperatures would vary by a large amount. Before I added SSR-25DD my temps varied by 10 - 20 C which was problematic. The mechanical relay has a life cycle of 10 - 100k cycles so you would wear it out really fast and the clicking would drive me bonkers. You could set the control mode to bang which is just off/on like a light switch. The SSR turn on time is about 100 micro sec and the turn off time is about 750 micro sec. The mean time between failure is measured in decades.

As far as the mechanical relay, I was thinking of FAR slower cycles! I could imagine a click every 10-30 seconds on the bed. The extruder wouldn't have enough heat mass to cycle that slow, but I think it reasonable that the bed might. (Not that I've done any testing to verify...)

The only spec that I saw only guaranteed a turn-on time of 10ms, which is too slow for 7kHz. In fact, the turn on times of 100 micro and turn off of 750 micro secs are FAR too slow for 7kHz. At 7kHz, each cycle is only 142 microseconds long. Heck, I wouldn't want to run one that used 20 microseconds total for both turn on and off because that would already be 1/7th of the time spent in switching mode. It might be overkill, but I would like to see in the ballpark of 1/100.

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I did a non scientific observation of the bed on/off time at 60C. It was 20 sec off and 10 sec on. I am sure at higher bed temps the on/off cycle would be different.
I forgot to add that the mechanical relay is inductive and you will have to negate the voltage spike when the relay is turned off and make sure you account for the higher initial current draw of the mechanical relay.

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Guys come on use the ohms law calculation. Amps drawn = voltage / resistance, [www.ohmslawcalculator.com]

The average reisistance on my 5 printers is 2.7 ohms for the bed, the beds are wired for 12V and I am using 12V power supplies. So 12V/2.7ohm = 4.4444 amps which produces 53.3333 watts drawn by the bed. The most the bed can draw is about 4.5amps. I could have a 1000 amp 12V power supply and the bed would draw 4.4444 amps. The amps drawn are only affected by the resistance and the voltage. So a SSR-25DD would be loafing supplying the bed. I know because all 5 of my printers are set up this way and the SSR-25DD's are not even warm to the touch. I suggest you make sure you don't have a short or other wiring problem. Also make sure the wires on the SSR's are tight or you could get resistive heating on the SSR terminals.

So in summary use the ohms law calculator to determine the real current being drawn by the bed.
1) unscrew the bed wires from the electronics and measure the resistance of the bed (do not measure the resistance unless you disconnect the wires from the electronics or you will get an incorrect ohms reading and that will produce incorrect results in the ohms law calculator).

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I changed the firmware to PID and set
#define MAX_BED_POWER 192 // limits duty cycle to bed; 255=full current
I made the change in MAX_BED_POWER because I run the bed off of a 24V power supply and have never gotten around to changing the bed heater wiring to 24V, the bed heater is still wired for 12V. Just one more round-to-it.

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Have you made any progress with your printer?