E3D (V6) (Page 3 of 6)

Lol, or i could just bug SD support...

Hey, I saw you might have done some work with auto bed leveling and rumba.  Did you ever get it to work?  The push down probe thing on the workbench was the first thing on my list of things that had to go, but I wasn't sure their controller would support the $2 servo they omitted.  I've seen it work on i3's before, and it looks like it should work well.  Prusa models are actually pretty easy to keep level though.  I don't have any experience with SD printers, but it seems from reading around the cantilever is not the best at staying put, so it might be nice to get that working well.

I figured it was kind of a novelty, but with a servo doing the job, I didn't mind.  The added complexity does make it an easy project to ditch if it doesn't work well.  I don't mind it doing it every job if it actually works.

lol.  hater.

Reviving this dead post.  Got my workbench.  It's a mess.  Not shocked after all the grief I gave them for being late.  After getting everything lined up, I can see I need to do some work on this thing if it's even going to come close to working as well as my Prusa. 

First problem was the y belt issue, which was an easy fix.  The next thing was the hotends couldn't possibly have been tested for an actual print job.  They were completely uneven, and needed to be adjusted, which meant I needed to level the bed, at least on the x axis, to keep them from dragging through the test job I was running, which is nothing but a 3x25mm disc.  I got that to print badly, and moved on.  At this point it seems that at least mechanically I'm ok for now. 

I'm having an issue with the z-axis calibration, which has gone badly so many times, that now I have a clogged hotend.  I'm drawing a mount for a pair of e3d v6's this weekend to deal with that.  Should I make a z endstop mount, and stop the probe altogether at this point.  It's ok that it does it, and it doesn't take that long, but I'm waiting for it to break.  Hopefully the new hotends will heat up a bit faster than the old ones.  It's taking on average about 10 minutes to reach 200c with the fans up.  If I leave them down, it will take much longer.  The bed heats faster than the hotends do right now.  Go figure. 

Something else notable, is that a few times in RH, after probing is done, the bed has crashed into the hotends to the point of stalling.  This only happens with RH.  Soliprint actually works fine.  It needs some work, but it's not terrible.

You could get a chimera instead of two V6s. Cheaper, possibly lighter, won't lose as much build space and the leveling mechanism is built in to the hotend for both nozzles.

And I can say that my limited experience tells me to ditch the probe and auto leveling as soon as possible.

I was going there myself too wardjr.  I already did the work, why wait for the probe now...

So if I want to kill the probe, I guess I can dig up an sd4 z-endstop stl somewhere if I look around right?  no need to reinvent a very round fast spinning wheel.

This looks perfect:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:340445

but I'd have to create a mirror of it to put two together.

The regular mk5 could work fine too.  Not sure how to deal with the tension screw.  The carriage is the easy part.  If I decide to keep the probe, I'm going to use a servo.  Remembering to put it down after every use is for toilet seats.