heated chamber - cooling
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@deckingman said in heated chamber - cooling:
This one would be AWESOME replacement for my home compressor (1/5HP 23L/min 6bar) that I paid ~double the price of this EC28M on amazon ?!?!?!! I'ts 8bar, that's more than enough for 99% of the work, 1/2HP, so stronger too ..
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@arhi Yes, I was quite impressed by it.
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How much air at what pressure do you need? I have found that the blowers from CPAP machines can move a lot of air under moderate pressure through hoses and do it quietly. I have also printed a similar blower powered by a hard disk drive motor (or any other BLDC motor) that will move similar amounts of air.
A $10 BLDC driver is all that's needed to drive the motor. You can use model airplane motors or HDD motors.
The 3D printed impeller comes off the printer balanced so there are no issues with spinning it at 20k rpm.
People were going bananas over this a couple months ago when they were trying to design low cost ventilators for COVID-19 patients.
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@mrehorstdmd said in heated chamber - cooling:
How much air at what pressure do you need? I have found that the blowers from CPAP machines can move a lot of air under moderate pressure through hoses and do it quietly. I have also printed a similar blower powered by a hard disk drive motor (or any other BLDC motor) that will move similar amounts of air.
I sleep with a CPAP machine and I think it would be superb for any cooling action for the 3D printer BUT I never opened the CPAP machine and they are so god damn expensive and hard to get in this middle of nowhere s^%$thole that I never considered them for anything other than what they are made for
I'll check the video and if I can find more info of what kind of fan is inside
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@arhi here's a blower from a CPAP machine- it's about 80mm diameter:
This is the one I copied to make a printed version:
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interesting, rather thin disk with small surface of fins moving so much air with significant pressure..
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Yeah, I was shocked when I saw it.
My printable impeller was a direct copy of the impeller in that CPAP blower.
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@mrehorstdmd any stl's of the final device that works? I have some beefy bldc motors
.. I think I still have one 300A motor+esc sitting in a box unopened for years that I wanted to use as cnc spindle and gave up -
@arhi The last file I linked was the fusion360 design file. You can open it to look at it in 3D in your web browser, and can download it in several formats including stl. I designed the impeller hub to fit the HDD motor I was using so you'll likely have to modify it to fit whatever motor you use. It is intended that the motor go inside the lower half of the box so the swirling air can help keep it cool. You'll probably have to modify the box a bit too.
A 300A motor might be overkill for this application... but it should make for an interesting series of youtube videos, maybe called "Does it Blow?". You can start with the first printed impellers disintegrating in slo-mo when you spin up the motor, then move on to things like blowing prints off the bed when they finish. The print will go flying, there will be papers flying around the room, a cat hissing, dogs barking, babies crying, murder hornets buzzing, etc. It'll go viral!
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@mrehorstdmd said in heated chamber - cooling:
@arhi The last file I linked was the fusion360 design file.
missed that one, great
I designed the impeller hub to fit the HDD motor I was using so you'll likely
I might use hdd motor as well have enough of them and they are super quiet
A 300A motor might be overkill for this application... but it should make for an interesting series of youtube videos, maybe called "Does it Blow?".
I was thinking about how to test max rpm that 3d printed part can survive but I'm not sure this motor can do too many rpm's as IIRC it was designed to be used with huge propeller so high torque, not too much speed, but will check, need to find it first I remember when I purchased it but have not seen it in many years I have some smaller ones (purchased same time same store in Budapest
) that are high rpm low torque, I got the appropriate propellers for them and those are the fairly small ones but still generate loads of trust (iirc 2.5kg but I'm not sure need to find my notes) due to speed, wanted to use them for some super fast gimbal platform but never got around doing it
