Posts made by gwatson90

@rjenkinsgb Thank you for helping me lay some ground work for all this! I'll keep an eye out for resources.

@rjenkinsgb Well, feeding a meter or so of cable through Electrical conduit would certainly be easier than using regular cable loom like I have in the past and it has a slightly better bend radius that the ChainFlex. So, if I'm understanding you correctly; Motor cables, signal cables, and heater cables all need to be channeled through their own conduit to obtain maximum avoidance of interference. Do the fans need to as well? Does the conduit then need to be grounded to a drain? Sorry for so many questions, but EMI suppression is a new avenue for me and I'm quite fixated on it at the moment. Are you aware of any good resources I can look to for more information? Thank you!

Also, I just ran across this: https://hollandshielding.com/Flexible-cable-shield

Is this a viable option as well?

@rjenkinsgb Thank you for the response, this will help my narrow down my search criteria for sure. I was primarily interested in the ChainFlex due to its shielding. However should I only be concerned with shielding cables that transmit data like thermistor and probe cables and just settle for twisting pairs for the steppers? I should have also mentioned that EMI management is also a priority for me as well.

I've been slowly working on making my printers' enclosure more capable of reaching higher temperatures. My long term goal is to reach ~90C. Does anyone have any suggestions on what kind of wiring I can get that is rated to work at that kind of temperature. I've been looking at this https://www.igus.com/product/14633?artNr=CF29-15-15-02-01-D and similar products from IGUS. I'm just reluctant to settle at 100C rating due to the temperature rise in the wiring once I start printing. Do I also need to be concerned about skewed temperature readings from my heater thermistor due to the change in resistance in my thermistor wiring? Thanks in advance!

Thank you for all your time and effort, it's great to have a company that values the time of its users! I'm looking forward to using custom tabs to my hearts' content.

I like the PTFE tubing as it would reduce the friction on the contact surfaces quite a bit. Thank you!

Thank you for your replies, I've spend a good amount of time on both of your blog sites reading through all the information so I appreciate the input very much. I'll likely stick with the Maxwell implementation since it seems to handle expansion of the bed all the same and I'm confident that I'll be able to position the groves correctly.

I've been looking into a kinematic bed mount for my printer bed and I've notice that there seems to be two prevalent conventions when it comes to doing so (Maxwell and Kelvin). Does anyone have any insight as to which might be better, the pros and cons of each, or which you've implemented? Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I'd like to get into making my own scripts and such, as well as eventually being able to contribute to Open source programs like Super Slic3r (Long term goal). What's the best language to learn for all of this? I have experience with C and C++, so coding isn't completely foreign to me.

Thanks!

I noticed on the Dozuki page regarding accelerometers, it was mentioned that using one for a z probe is not currently supported. Is there any support planned for this in the future? Also, would anyone be willing to briefly describe how that would work?

@phaedrux Ok I'll just make a temporary mount that way I can use the same one for other machines. Thanks!

I recently bought an LIS3DH accelerometer to get started with input shaping. I have room to nest it nicely in my printhead and run the wires cleanly, but is that necessary? Is input shaping something that you have to reconfigure every time you change a setting related to the motion of your machine or do you only need to do it once?

@dc42 I will give it a try in the next couple of weeks and follow-up. Thank you!

@dc42 The thickness of the powder coated side is ~0.2mm (0.3mm on the smooth side). Would the texture of the coating effect the reading from the probe?

Hi all, I did some searching through the forums looking for the kind of results people might be getting with a powder coated PEI surface (https://fulament.com/collections/fula-flex-2-0/products/fula-flex-2-0) compared to smooth PEI and didn't find much. Anybody have using that kind of surface with this sensor? I'm going to be switching from a BL-Touch soon due to the form factor and I'm trying to see if I'll be needing to order some Build - Tak along with it. I know that PEI is very transparent to IR, but was wondering if the powdercoating application changes things.

Thanks!