Finished the second print, finished perfectly. There is some stringing however with a bit of cleaning its perfect. Although there are some issues. 1: Stringing. There is not alot of it, but I would like to get all of it rid of. I am working on this by increasing the speed and lowering the temperature as much as I can, if anyone knows any other advice to lower stringing ill be glad to hear. 2: Nby rowow - Mechanics
For my current printer (1200mm x 1200mm x 1200mm) I use 4 stepper motors to raise the x/y carriage rather then the bed. Here is a video to it Even though on the video there is only 1 2ftx2ft plane of glass, I setup 3 more planes of glass which fill up the whole bed and is very even. Currently I am using a 4 probe setup (with 4 more probes for each side) and I am having no issues. I will seeby rowow - Mechanics
Update on the 11 hour print. It stopped at 3 hours due to a thermal runoff error. In the logs it seemed the temperature dropped a few degrees which the printer also happened to be stopped at the closest point to the fan. (I need to design a mounted fan to cool the print, in the meanwhile im using a table fan which works fine) So I modified a few settings in the firmware and it should be fine now.by rowow - Mechanics
I disagree with your claim as I treat others how I am treated. I repeatedly have been nice to people who have provided a well meaningful argument. The point I break is when they either start throwing insults or start making absurd claims such as wanting the admins to silencing others due to me having a different opinion, or giving out plainly incorrect statements when I have time over time explaiby rowow - Mechanics
UPDATE Here is the video which many people in this very forum claimed is impossible to make under a certain amount of price. Well it has been done and its up and running! Currently the customer needs more time to finish his model, so in the meanwhile I will print a blade guard for a diy underwater propulsion device, or a underwater scooter. It will be a 11 hour print or 269 grams. A small printby rowow - Mechanics
QuoteOrigamib You use a galaxy? Overpriced piece of plastic that, ive heard only the cool kids buy that cos apples sucks. I use a HTC one M8. Back to 3D printing. Ramps 1.4 struggles with anything other than 16x micro stepping.... On top of that, it struggles to run basic heaters, or 24v electronics. So you're going to need to use an SSR or similar components. Basically, ramps 1.4 does notby rowow - Mechanics
Quoteaussiephil Quoterowow I am going run my larger 1mx1mx1m for 50 hours strait (which has a ramps board), once a certain customer has finished with his model. You claim people are winding me up and exposing me yet you are on;y coming in back agian and agian being aggressive and bringing up the most illogical comments. Please be positive and actually do something beneficial to the community. Nby rowow - Mechanics
Most normal people use a galaxy... However the majority of old folks or young kids have iphones as they have trouble navigating and using the phone. So they need something basic and simple for them. I know its a common reference, however I hope your not using one... Back to 3d printing. You can solder a sd card onto to the board But jokes aside I agree $35-$75 is approximately the price of theby rowow - Mechanics
QuoteOrigamib So, by my calculations ramps is not that cheap..... ramps = £5 arduino = £12 Drivers = £20 (£2 each, 5 are needed and 5 as a back up. you can go cheaper, I have tried but they break... I went for the slightly more expensive option and they are pretty decent actually) Raspberry pi = £30 (clones of the pi don't exist as far as I'm aware, they have a deal with the chip providers so cby rowow - Mechanics
Quoteaussiephil How about 12 months strait printing on a single printer.... Your still ranting and raving and calling others stupid... Keep looking like the fool you are People have really started to wind you up and expose you, keep at it All the reasons you buy a ready made product is why I buy a 1500 printer or a 150 controller to put in a $2000 delta because I have no intention of wasting tiby rowow - Mechanics
QuoteOrigamib So, by my calculations ramps is not that cheap..... ramps = £5 arduino = £12 Drivers = £20 (£2 each, 5 are needed and 5 as a back up. you can go cheaper, I have tried but they break... I went for the slightly more expensive option and they are pretty decent actually) Raspberry pi = £30 (clones of the pi don't exist as far as I'm aware, they have a deal with the chip providers so cby rowow - Mechanics
Resistor: <1 cent Minimum wage: 7.25 That's 12 cents per minute Or 1 cent per 20 seconds... If you can make me 1 resistor for 20 seconds then that's one thing. However you still need to solder it all, make the silicone chip, and so on and so forth... And if you can make that all in 1 hour. Then im all ears and you got yourself a business partner. However you cant... And in fact people DID solby rowow - Mechanics
Quotethe_digital_dentist Why waste money buying electronic components when you can easily make them yourself and get exact values that you need instead of being forced to use "standard" component values? DIY resistors: and DIY capacitors: and Connecting all those parts together is usually done using a printed circuit board. Thousands of hobbyists make thier own PCBs every day: Some pby rowow - Mechanics
Quotedc42 Quoterowow Quotedc42 Quoterowow Found a cheaper and simpler option for a web interface on a radds board. Rather then spending $40 for a raspberry pi. You only need a $5 wifi module (ESP8266) and a few resistors. That will give you a web interface, but without gcode file upload to your SD card at anything resembling a reasonable speed. If you want that, you are back to spending $40 oby rowow - Mechanics
Quotedc42 Quoterowow Found a cheaper and simpler option for a web interface on a radds board. Rather then spending $40 for a raspberry pi. You only need a $5 wifi module (ESP8266) and a few resistors. That will give you a web interface, but without gcode file upload to your SD card at anything resembling a reasonable speed. If you want that, you are back to spending $40 on a RPi. Add that toby rowow - Mechanics
Quoteaussiephil Quotefrankvdh Sheesh! Calm down folks! Name-calling isn't helping. Let's just get some signal into this noise. Been trying to, but as per the post two up the ranting and raving continues. There is only one side and that's rowow's side................ Rowow - show me a successful 24hr plus print from one of your dozen printers..... your continued ranting shows you to be just whaby rowow - Mechanics
Found a cheaper and simpler option for a web interface on a radds board. Rather then spending $40 for a raspberry pi. You only need a $5 wifi module (ESP8266) and a few resistors.by rowow - Mechanics
Quotedc42 Quoterowow As you are an ignorant user who cant read english you will find I already explained that the arduino due is only a few dollars more then the mega2560, and the radds is only 60$ vs your $150 board... And stepsticks cost $2 a pop... How much does a genuine Arduino Due cost in your country? $30? . And if you only pay $2 for stepsticks, you can expect a lot of failures, so betteby rowow - Mechanics
Quotefrankvdh Sheesh! Calm down folks! Name-calling isn't helping. $150 is I think a fair price for dc42's board. You have to pay to be at the 'bleeding edge', because there's only a few people to share the design costs. It's not fair to expect dc42 to design a board for free so that the Chinese can make a profit by mass-producing it so that *I* can get it cheaply. OTOH, I won't be buying one, bby rowow - Mechanics
Quotedc42 Quoterowow I really like the RADDS due to the 3 extruders and 24v capability. As you are a cheapskate, you will find the cost of Arduino Due + RADDS + decent stepper driver modules far too expensive for your liking. Quoterowow Finally thanks for telling be about the Arduino Due! I dont understand why more people dont use it. Its compatible with ramps1.4 and is only a few dollars extrby rowow - Mechanics
I really like the RADDS due to the 3 extruders and 24v capability. The reason why I would like more extruders is for the diamond hotend. However I would also like 1 more extruder for support material. So I would need a stepper expander like this Finally thanks for telling be about the Arduino Due! I dont understand why more people dont use it. Its compatible with ramps1.4 and is only a few doby rowow - Mechanics
Quotestephenrc Quoterowow Seems digital dentist was correct. This is yet agian very sad and depressing to me. To see the reprap community waste $150 solving issues which on paper look amazing, however in real life are only little setbacks and are easily solved. If someone can provide a ACTUAL reason to move to 32 bit then im glad to hear. However for $150 its not worth it and I will wait until otby rowow - Mechanics
Quotethe_digital_dentist QuoterowowMake forums.reprap.org great agian. Donald???? Haha yes. Although I dont support him I like that slogan.by rowow - Mechanics
$100 per hour... WOW you must have a amazing salary. Thats 200,000 per year. And I dont own nor want to own a delta so I dont know about the issues of a ramps1.4 on a delta. However if you did read the whole post you would have realized I dont have a delta... And agian, THIS IS A ONE TIME ISSUE. In my dozens of boards I used I NEVER had such an issue. If installed a duet on every printer I madeby rowow - Mechanics
Seems digital dentist was correct. This is yet agian very sad and depressing to me. To see the reprap community waste $150 solving issues which on paper look amazing, however in real life are only little setbacks and are easily solved. If someone can provide a ACTUAL reason to move to 32 bit then im glad to hear. However for $150 its not worth it and I will wait until other manufacturers lower thby rowow - Mechanics
If that's the best you guys can provide then im done. Again, half of what you said is completly bs and is not an issue. Adequate 5v power supply? My ramps board has NO issues running a full graphics display. Maybe you should quit paying $30 for a cheap broken board. And stepper driver cooling? Again, WHO HAS ISSUES WITH THAT??? I use drv8825, the most heat producing stepper controller, and all Iby rowow - Mechanics
No I dont. I am simply asking and debating why one object is better then another. If one provides a invalid reason for their product, then I will provide a counterclaim as to me it seems to be incorrect. However your not really helping either side in this conversation and is rather ruining the whole point of one.by rowow - Mechanics
Maybe I missed something, let me review each of his reasons. 1: I have a lcd panel and my board does not overheat. Might be an issue for different lcd panels but I use a full graphics display and it works fine 2: I plan to only use sd/octoprint as running a computer the same time as a a printer is very energy inefficient. My computer uses more power then my printer... 3: I know about the heatsby rowow - Mechanics
Most of the following I dont have issues with, however what I do want is 24v However its not worth it for $150... It would be cheaper to get a FMD2740A stepper controller which delivers 4a, 50v and does 128 microstepping... Which all comes back to the original issue. Would you rather pay $150 for a overpriced over marketed board that does 24v and 32 bit processing (which currently I have noby rowow - Mechanics
I cant say much about controller boards being marketed all fancy like (as I dont know a specific example), however extruders such as the e3d titan or filament by matterhacks, or even whole 3d printers by 3d systems and their cube printers, are just a few examples of each 3d printer market being taken over by marketing for the fancy. So I wouldn't be surprised if there are boards already being marby rowow - Mechanics