Thank you for the suggestion of running it at 5V. Tested the probe quickly yesterday with 5V and it detects the bed perfectly fine, so ended up just installing it and running off of 5V instead of 12Vby niekz - RAMPS Electronics
First, let me just say I have no formal training with electronics and learn basically everything I know about it online, so please forgive my ignorance in advance. Trying to add an inductive sensor to a small printer. Printer's mainboard, as I understand, accepts input voltages of 5v for endstop values (ramps based). I have a 12v inductive probe, powered directly from a 12v external power supplby niekz - RAMPS Electronics
Awesome, that's great news. Thank you very much for the helpby niekz - Reprappers
Now I feel like an idiot. Thank you for the help though, at least I'm not going crazy. Unfortunately ordering from aliexpress my packages rarely arrive in my country. Would using a board like this : Enable be to use the mosfet boards I have?by niekz - Reprappers
This is the mosfet board. The control led on the board does turn on when the signal gets sent from the mainboard, which is indeed a 5v signal I added configuration for bed PID in the firmware, as well as set the correct thermistor value according to the one attached to the silicone sheetby niekz - Reprappers
Hi folks. I'm losing my mind a little bit with frustration, but here goes. Over a year ago, I bought a real cheap printer with no heated bed. I recently decided to venture into printing more materials, and have wanted to upgrade it with a heated bed, so I bought a silicone heated pad, and an external mosfet board for this endeavour. The bed is a 120x120 (printable area), and I ended up buyiby niekz - Reprappers
Good to know someone tried the follow the same avenue as I did. I am using the Rework 1.5 frame design as a base for the printer im building, using 10mm threaded rods on the Y-Axis, but i am following the main Mk2 branch for parts, as they are being maintained. I haven't actually decided which extruder to use, but I don't quite like the design that is on the rework branch, so I might discard tby niekz - Prusa i3 and variants
Hi Folks. I have been quite obsessed the last couple of months with the idea of building my own 3d printer. I love DIY and making, and now that i'm all grown up (not quite, boys will be boys after all), I am trying to build my own RepRap. I am using the RepRap i3 Rework as a base, using 10mm threaded rods for base construction, 10mm threaded rods for the z-axis, and 10mm stainless steel rods forby niekz - Prusa i3 and variants