Heater cartidges?

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Re: Heater cartidges?

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So a quick google turned up Polygonhell's post on replacement fuses: http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php ... 4209#p4209

You can replace these with 10A fuses. I have 5 on the way! I am planning to run 2 extruders so I'll need these.

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Re: Heater cartidges?

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mhackney wrote:So a quick google turned up Polygonhell's post on replacement fuses: http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php ... 4209#p4209

You can replace these with 10A fuses. I have 5 on the way! I am planning to run 2 extruders so I'll need these.
that'll work too. =)
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Re: Heater cartidges?

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mhackney wrote:Hmm, here's a question, is that 5A for both hot ends or do they each have a dedicated fuse? I could check but if you know...

thanks.
It's for all of the Mosfet outputs except the heated bed.
I think you'd blow the fuse running 2 standard SeeMeCNC hotends, they draw almost 2x the current most resistor based reprap hotends do, since they use more or less the same heating resistor but 2 of them in parallel.
You can replace it with a 10A fuse according to the Rambo design docs, and probably you could get away with 15A.
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