i still have to hunt down a few things for the XL300. I have not found anything for mounting the power supply (LED style) yet, nor have I found anything for the power cord and switch specific to the SmartRapCore. I'll have to widen my search. I was able to catch my Batch 2 Duet Wifi before it shipped and add in a Titan extruder and real E3D hotend before it shipped, so I'm ditching the originaby WZ9V - Smart_Rap
The reason I recommend a Prusa style is that it will operate well on the usual cheap 8-bit electronics and there are tons of people who can help with a Prusa i3 style. When you branch out into Delta or CoreXY you need to be prepared to do a lot of learning and troubleshooting on your own because the community of people who can help is significantly smaller and when you cross over into the 32-bitby WZ9V - General
Cool. I'll lookup your part and may just go ahead and put a titan on from the beginning. I heard back from Serge and he said they went back to Bowden and I really don't want to mess with that. I've been using geared direct drive extruders on my other projects so I'm much more comfortable with them.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Check out the P3Steel frame based designs. I don't have an Prusa i3 style printer but when I was looking the steel frames seemed to be nice because they are good and solid and the extra weight helps. The Toolson version P3Steel on thingiverse is pretty well regarded if you can get someone to print you parts and then buy a frame or have one cut from the plans. I started with a Delta because theby WZ9V - General
I'm building a SmartRap XL300 which uses belts. They work, but if you cut stepper power the full weight of the bed will crash down because the belts offer very little resistance. I will probably work screws in for the Z on mine at some point. I also have to see how the 4 linear rod setup on the XL300 works over time. At least with screws the bed will either stay in place or move down slowly bby WZ9V - CoreXY Machines
How has it been working? I notice in the pictures you used a 42mm NEMA17 stepper. I've seen some discussions where people have been going with a lighter 20mm or 24mm NEMA17 stepper to save weight on the moving carriage. I've been toying on doing this on my XL300 now that I'm just building a whole new set of plastic parts for it.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
The Duet uses RepRapFirmware (not sure if it does others). The older Duet 0.6 and 0.8.5 are also 16X with the built in stepper drivers. You have to get the newer Duet Wifi to go past 16X. The Duet handles 24V just fine.by WZ9V - Reprappers
Depends on how noisy (electrical) the environment is but I've usually seen the recommendation be no longer than 25 to 30cm. I assuming the 2 10pin ribbon cables.by WZ9V - Developers
My few dealings with them have been good. I think they will take care of you.by WZ9V - Duet
I've written to the RobotDigg folks and asked if they could source a metal carriage and effector for the Hayden style magnetic setup. I'm not to keen on those cup magnets they borrowed from the K800 style. I prefer Hayden's where the magnet is a passive part and not in contact with the ball.by WZ9V - Delta Machines
I'm trying not to complain until they have a chance to address my emails. But the kit as shipped to me is missing or has wrong versions of lots of stuff and I'm not happy. What I got is missing key parts to even make a functional printer.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
My extruder has the mounting ears for the 2020 profile, I received a long PTFE tube and a push fit, and the J-head mount is setup for the tube. It looks nothing like the parts for the direct drive.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Quotedc42 4. There are a couple of relatively inexpensive SSRs that don't suffer from the problem (high voltage drop) of the so-called Fotek SSR-40DD (which you won't find listed on Fotek's datasheet). One is the Power Expander from reprap.me. The other is a conventional 4-terminal SSR from a company in the USA. I haven't been able to find it recently, but I think the manufacturer begins with theby WZ9V - RAMPS Electronics
The XL300 is pictured with a direct drive extruder setup and that's also what the assembly manual has. My kit came with a Bowden extruder setup, did they switch?by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Digging through the OnShape design files, I figured out the Z-Rod holders use the M3-16 bolts.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Assembled outer cube. One 500mm extrusion was missing the hole needed for assembly, quickly fixed with drill press and 6mm bit. Instructions leave much to be desired and lots a head scratching since several things have changed since they were last updated (taking notes). Current head scratcher is what length M3 bolts to use for the vertical rod holders.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
My new CoreXY kit came with a 600W 300mm x 300mm 220V silicone bed heater which is not useful here in the US (120V). Heater is brand new and never used. Asking $40 + shippingby WZ9V - For Sale
Thanks. I'll give it a shot with the supplied electronics and let people know. I have a BLTouch that think would be interesting to try after I get things working.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Can the inductive sensor work with a glass plate? My plan is to have PrintBrite/Glass(3mm)/Aluminum/Heaterby WZ9V - Smart_Rap
That could be, the sheet seems a little thin for that so I thought it was merely a heat spreader but what you say makes more sense.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Anybody know of one? I've been searching. In particular does anyone know if the XL300 basic kit is supposed to come with a 300mm glass sheet?by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Arrived today. First thing I noticed is that they sent a 220V silicone heater. Ugh. Other than that it looks good. Need to do a detailed inventory and sort out the heater.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Made it out of France to Germany.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Shipment rescheduled and picked up. Fingers crossed that it actually makes it out of France this time. Seems it got held up last time because DHL decided it had Lipo's in teh box which the kit does not. The ghost "Lipo" was the dangerous item that prevented shipment. So bad X-Ray or technician.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
They got back to me this morning. Mine and three other kits were rejected by DHL. The reason given was that DHL just came out with a new form with additional security questions (after the terrorist attacks in France) and the kits were prepared with the older form which caused them to be rejected as "Dangerous Goods" because they were missing the answers to the new security questions. Unfortunaby WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Don't know. I have not received a response to either my email asking about it or my update to the order asking about it. Might have to try an actual phone call tomorrow morning. I hope the printer is worth all this aggravation.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
I'm in the US. It was the DHL office in France that declared it dangerous good and returned it.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Be careful with thread lockers, the vapors from their curing can weaken plastics. In model helicopters the general advice is to never use thread locker for any bolt used to join plastic parts.by WZ9V - Mechanics
It was going well until DHL sent me an exception of "The shipment has been identified as containing Dangerous Goods and requires special processing" and was returned to Smartfriendz.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap
Got the pickup notice today, so now the date is Tuesday the 2nd.by WZ9V - Smart_Rap