"This is an amazing entry level printer for makers and tinkers who are prepared to do some tuning and maintenance!" I couldn't agree more, I'm going on 10 months and still love mine. VonRansak, what printers would you consider a "slam dunk" currently?by CircleofOwls - Prusa i3 and variants
Building this printer has been one of the most rewarding things that I've done in a long time, enjoy it. I'd recommend the community build guide here - and theRippa's firmware upgrade here - I started with both and feel that they an improvement over the experiences I've read others go through with the original FT offerings.by CircleofOwls - Prusa i3 and variants
I have the new RAMPS board installed and everything working well again. I'm playing with the thermal runaway protection, it's definitely touchy but a good idea in the long run I think. It's surprising how quickly the bed temps drop when the fan comes on, I've had to reduce it to 40% output max and it's disabled for the first 10 layers now, otherwise the bed temp drops like a rock.by CircleofOwls - Prusa i3 and variants
Thanks for the tip Andrew, I'll definitely look into the thermal runaway protection. I don't generally leave the printer unsupervised but more protection could save me from having to replace parts which sounds like a good trade off. I have a number of personal issues and security related concerns about Facebook, it seems like an odd platform to have a discussion about an open source printer. Mayby CircleofOwls - Prusa i3 and variants
I'm not sure how I didn't smell this happening since I was 6' from the printer. I noticed that my print cooling fan was blowing on the nozzle enough to drop the extruder temps below the set temperature; the bed temperature was also well below the set point. I'm guessing that the fan is blowing far to hard and caused the nozzle and bed heaters to run for too long. The printer never did stop prinby CircleofOwls - Prusa i3 and variants
Quotekarimm Hi folks, Is it normal for the heated bed to take several minutes to reach the 90C temperature for printing with ABS? I feel something is wrong here. Any help would be appreciated. P.S. the hot end takes much less to reach 245C Thanks a million. I believe that this is normal. I've seen several posts with similar questions and no solutions other than trying to insulate the heatingby CircleofOwls - Prusa i3 and variants