Stratasys uPrint - Retrofit finally Complete!
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@JadonM Late to the party here...
Those Cubex machines were selling cheap on ebay a couple years ago when 3DS decided to get out of the consumer printer market. I bought a Duo new-in-box for $260 including shipping.
There's a long thread on Cubex conversions here:
Cubex conversion -
@mrehorstdmd Thanks for the link!
Here's the story behind my Cubex:
I bought it slightly used from an industrial surplus seller in Cleveland for about $70. I then brought it home and ripped the proprietary boards out. (Obsolete of course!) Being an eBay seller, I listed the boards on eBay and made about $50 of profit from them!
You can't beat that price for a printer! -
This is a great project. I have a uPrint which I am contemplating doing similar things to now. The only difference at the moment is I want to add water-cooled hotend and dual extruder, to increase the capabilities somewhat. I am thinking of taking out one of the chamber heaters and using that space to stick the radiator, putting the fan running into the chamber afterwards, still need to do a fair bit of experimentation with that part of it yet.
If you need any help with the programming of the firmware, I'd be happy to collaborate when I get to that point. I was also wanting to keep the original LCD display and buttons, but I haven't given this enough consideration yet.
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if you want to print high tempature materials you will need a water cooled hotend, just run the water lines to the outside of the chamber, you will definitely need the cooling the printer is very well insulated.
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@AJ-Quick Are you using the UPrint printer heads in your project?
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I'm looking for some part for my Uprint and maybe some of you that are building similar projects might have parts to sell. If so, please let me know.
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Hi... just doing this rebuild my self here in sweden.
Going for a watercoold titan aqua system.Threw out all the pdb cpu cards and doing complet rebuild/revamp
Keeping the 12/5v 24 and 120v psus
The one thing i cant find is if the 120v dv psu needs a power on pin or somthing like that?
or will it auto turn on when it gets 230v main power.Trying to figure out the different pins out from the 120v psu
Found the 3 mains cables but dont know as of yet with is 120v out + - and what the other pins doo..
Do u have eany documentation on witch colors is witch
Best Regards Jan Noord // Sweden
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@drphil3d Hi. What is the part number of LCD you have used here?
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@Electrosolz its a PanelDue 5i
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@T3P3Tony thanks
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@T3P3Tony paneldue 5i is not compatible with duet2 board. So the Duet3 board is used here. Am I right?
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@Electrosolz the paneldue 5i is compatible with the duet 2.
for a new build/conversion i would stick to the duet 3 family anyway -
@jay_s_uk okay i will look into that
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@lightface79 hi, have you found anything regarding colouring scheme of 120v psu?
