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QuoteBy the way, how much power do we need to supply the extruder and heated bed ?
It looks like the extruder controller has 5A rated fets, so I'm guessing around that amount of current.
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webbyguy
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EMC2
So let me see if I've got this. I can by a makerbot extruder controller v3.6 to control the heater and read the thermocouple. It looks like this board would connect to emc through usb, but I believe I had read somewhere that emc doesn't do usb. Do I need to get a board that connects some other way?
Also, I guess that this method has the advantage of being able to easily add control for a heat
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webbyguy
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EMC2
How do you control temperature with your emc setup?
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webbyguy
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EMC2
I have been working on a milling machine that I was planning to control with EMC2. However, I ran across 3D printing with a reprap machine, and I would like to add an extruder head for 3D printing. I was thinking I would get a "Wade's Extruder" head like this one and control it off of an extra axis of one of these stepper motor controller boards that I was planning to get anyway to control an e
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webbyguy
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EMC2
