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by JeremyAgost
Sun Mar 20, 2016 2:35 pm
Forum: General Tips 'N Tricks
Topic: Liquid mixing apparatus
Replies: 14
Views: 8679

Re: Liquid mixing apparatus

Yeah one of the reasons I'm thinking an OS board for the recipe computer is the ease of implementing a fairly full featured UI. When thinking about volumes, I'd see about a 2 litre container being ideal for mixing and storage. You could basically dump two bottles of bubbly in there plus orange conce...
by JeremyAgost
Sun Mar 20, 2016 2:15 pm
Forum: General Tips 'N Tricks
Topic: Liquid mixing apparatus
Replies: 14
Views: 8679

Re: Liquid mixing apparatus

Yes! The cleaning needs definitely occurred to me. As for keeping things fizzy, I've watched my bartender buddy make and serve from a new pitcher of mimosa every 20 minutes. No one seems to mind. Personally it's always seemed to me that brut and other sparkling beverages stay pretty fizzy for quite ...
by JeremyAgost
Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:42 pm
Forum: General Tips 'N Tricks
Topic: Liquid mixing apparatus
Replies: 14
Views: 8679

Liquid mixing apparatus

Hey gents. I'm starting to look into building a fairly simple drink mixing machine. It's entirely a hobby proposition. If it works out I may give it to a friend that operates a restaurant serving thousands of mimosas every day :P. My idea is fairly simple. A pair of "high" volume, rough me...
by JeremyAgost
Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:54 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Hotend Temp Fluctuation
Replies: 4
Views: 3812

Hotend Temp Fluctuation

Hi all. Can anyone explain this? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWO9iwO4ysI[/youtube] I've got an E3D v6 on my ORION. While printing the hotend temperature fluctuates up and down, +/- 20ºC of the set point. It stays perfectly stable while idle and I've done PID tuning several times. When he...
by JeremyAgost
Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:43 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Damaged Onyx Bed on Rostock? (nope just bad wires)
Replies: 2
Views: 2725

Re: Damaged Onyx Bed on Rostock?

I think I found the culprit. Underneath the bed, sandwiched between the board itself and the wooden spacer piece I discovered the soldered-on sensor wires pressed into each other. The insulation looked like it had just started to become compromised on the wires, causing them to short only when press...
by JeremyAgost
Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:23 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Damaged Onyx Bed on Rostock? (nope just bad wires)
Replies: 2
Views: 2725

Damaged Onyx Bed on Rostock? (nope just bad wires)

I've been doing a lot of printing lately, with the awesome E3D hotend on my Rostock. I always print ABS, bed at 100ºC. Just recently I've been coming back to the printer and the temp system has been in "defect" mode, where both sensors read "def" and the heaters are disabled. I n...
by JeremyAgost
Wed Aug 27, 2014 3:40 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Fake SSR Burned Up
Replies: 25
Views: 20860

Re: Fake SSR Burned Up

Well this item is the second relay I got and it's been working fine for a while now. The one I received even matches the picture/description :). I also attached a heatsink with a small 12V fan. Even with the solid state relay I'm running the bed in BangBang mode because it's gentler than PID and it ...
by JeremyAgost
Sun Aug 17, 2014 4:37 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend
Replies: 13
Views: 9518

Re: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend

I was able to use a socket set on this pneumatic coupling from one of the newer SeeMeCNC hotend kits, which allowed to apply enough pressure and torque to thread it into the ABS part. Yay! Thanks everyone :) loving this E3D hotend already. (And yes I know the blue-printed parts are awful. They're fr...
by JeremyAgost
Sat Aug 16, 2014 12:01 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend
Replies: 13
Views: 9518

Re: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend

Grrrr. Wish I had a tap kit. Maybe I know someone who does.

EDIT:
Looked up heat-set inserts. Thinking I need 94180A361 from this page? Wish I could find them in a hardware store, but I've never seen them anywhere.
by JeremyAgost
Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:03 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend
Replies: 13
Views: 9518

Re: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend

So I printed it and (with effort) screwed the threads of a pneumatic coupling into it but while just testing the extruder feed the coupling popped out. I fired up my soldering iron and heated up the coupling while screwing it in again and it's staying put for now but I'm not confident it'll hold. Wh...
by JeremyAgost
Sat Aug 16, 2014 1:14 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend
Replies: 13
Views: 9518

Re: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend

Oh that's awesome! Thanks a lot I'll give it a go on my Orion tonight :)
by JeremyAgost
Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:37 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend
Replies: 13
Views: 9518

Re: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend

The v5 bowden heatsinks are totally gone at this point, apparently. Anyone have any suggestions on how to modify/remake that mounting piece to fit a pneumatic coupling?
by JeremyAgost
Thu Aug 14, 2014 2:20 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend
Replies: 13
Views: 9518

Re: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend

I figured out a solution but I haven't quite been able to execute it. I'm using this E3D Mount and there's enough space on the bolts above the top plate that I could slip on another one of these pieces with threads to accept one of the bowden tube couplers. I tried converting the STL back to an obje...
by JeremyAgost
Thu Aug 14, 2014 2:15 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Timing out while pre-heating
Replies: 3
Views: 2937

Re: Timing out while pre-heating

Settings changes you make to the printer config through the Host software are saved in the EEPROM. Unless you've got EEPROM disabled somehow (extremely unlikely) those settings will be preserved after power cycling the printer.
by JeremyAgost
Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:52 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Timing out while pre-heating
Replies: 3
Views: 2937

Re: Timing out while pre-heating

In the printer config (I access mine through Repetier Host) there's a setting called Max Inactive Time. You can set that to a millisecond time limit of idleness before shutoff, or 0 to disable the shutoff.
by JeremyAgost
Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:31 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Non-Bowden E3D Hotend
Replies: 13
Views: 9518

Non-Bowden E3D Hotend

Hey, I did something silly. Some time ago I bought an E3D v5 hotend. I just assembled it tonight and after getting it all mounted and pretty-looking realized that it had no place to screw in the bowden-style tube coupling. I went back to the docs and their site and realized that they now have separa...
by JeremyAgost
Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:24 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Bed Collision With Particular Object
Replies: 2
Views: 2366

Re: Bed Collision With Particular Object

I don't suppose this issue might have anything to do with it? http://seemecnc.com/blogs/news/14684425 ... -perimeter. The part I'm trying to print is close to the edge of the print area. I'm going to try adjusting my firmware and see if that helps.
by JeremyAgost
Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:39 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Bed Collision With Particular Object
Replies: 2
Views: 2366

Re: Bed Collision With Particular Object

Can anyone look at the Gcode or maybe run it through their own printer and see if they have the same issue?
by JeremyAgost
Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:42 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Fake SSR Burned Up
Replies: 25
Views: 20860

Re: Fake SSR Burned Up

Interestingly in BangBang mode it seems to switch the bed power on and off quite rapidly. The bed does maintain the set temperature just fine. Maybe my firmware is wonky and it's still really in PID loop mode.
by JeremyAgost
Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:00 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Bed Collision With Particular Object
Replies: 2
Views: 2366

Bed Collision With Particular Object

Hey. I've been trying to print a larger filament spool for my Rostock. I'm using an STL someone posted here. Every time I try to print it, a few minutes into the first layer the steppers start skipping as the hot end tries to drive down into the bed. It seems to happen in the same place every time, ...
by JeremyAgost
Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:38 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Fake SSR Burned Up
Replies: 25
Views: 20860

Re: Fake SSR Burned Up

So the new "real" SSR and dialing down the PSU to 19V has worked wonders. My bed heats up nice and quick now. I also attached a heatsink and a little 12V fan to the relay as well as changed the heating algorithm to BangBang. It stays pretty cool. Thanks for the advice!
by JeremyAgost
Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:24 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Fake SSR Burned Up
Replies: 25
Views: 20860

Re: Fake SSR Burned Up

Ugh. Perhaps the power draw overloaded it as well. Well this was the wrong V range anyway. I ordered a 5-60V output SSR and I plan to bring the output voltage of the PSU down to 19V. That'll keep it under the 25A load rating. EDIT: On a related note, is there any reason I can't get power for a 40mm ...
by JeremyAgost
Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:23 am
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Fake SSR Burned Up
Replies: 25
Views: 20860

Re: Fake SSR Burned Up

I ordered from a different vendor so we'll see. I also got a heat sink, although I'm not convinced it would've made any difference in this case. This unit burned up in 30 seconds max. Not to mention the fact that the labeling on this one is totally different than any online photos I can find of the ...
by JeremyAgost
Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:43 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Fake SSR Burned Up
Replies: 25
Views: 20860

Fake SSR Burned Up

So my DC-DC solid state relay and 24V power supply arrived today. I went with the suggestions I've seen elsewhere on this forum, the Meanwell PSU and the Sunkee 25A DC-DC SSR ( http://www.amazon.com/Sunkee-Solid-SSR-25-3-32VDC-SSR-25DD/dp/B00CI4HBCQ/ ). I hooked it up as shown in the image, V+ on th...
by JeremyAgost
Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:02 pm
Forum: Rostock MAX
Topic: Clogged Hot End?
Replies: 19
Views: 13165

Re: Clogged Hot End?

Thanks! That sounds like it just might work. I ordered myself an E3D v5 hot end, just gotta get this thing back in service in the meantime. Especially since I planned on printing some adapter parts :P

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