Topic: Solar Panel powering Da Vinci
Does anyone know what the Da Vinci Printer uses for power? If I can bypass the Powersupply and feed directly from Solar Powered Battery? Can I power with 12VDC? I am looking for the power requirements.
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viperz28 wrote:
Does anyone know what the Da Vinci Printer uses for power? If I can bypass the Powersupply and feed directly from Solar Powered Battery? Can I power with 12VDC? I am looking for the power requirements.
A Da Vinci with a stock motherboard uses three voltages and all three are needed. Those are 12v, 5v, and 3.3v. Those are all three supplied by a Flex ITX PC power supply.
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Re: Solar Panel powering Da Vinci
viperz28 wrote:
Does anyone know what the Da Vinci Printer uses for power? If I can bypass the Powersupply and feed directly from Solar Powered Battery? Can I power with 12VDC? I am looking for the power requirements.
Don't know if it will work but you could try a DC to AC inverter
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4 2016-02-03 02:38:47 (edited by carl_m1968 2016-02-03 02:41:59)
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kev0175 wrote:
viperz28 wrote:Does anyone know what the Da Vinci Printer uses for power? If I can bypass the Powersupply and feed directly from Solar Powered Battery? Can I power with 12VDC? I am looking for the power requirements.
Don't know if it will work but you could try a DC to AC inverter
As I said the Da Vinci boards needs 12v, 4, and 3.3v. An inverter will only supply one voltage. He would need additional step down converters for the other two lower voltages and by then the current on the lower voltages will be unusable. In fact the current a solar cell supplies unless we are talking about a 4 foot square is not going to be enough to run the Da Vinci. I believe the power supply in them is capable of about 15 amps and it is really not enough as apparent by the light bar pulsing as the bed heats.
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Re: Solar Panel powering Da Vinci
Well what meant was to use the inverter to power the power supply that is already in the machine if it's possible.
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E3Dv6 hotend with custom carriage with Borosilicate glass bed
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Zerokart resetter, Installed a Extruder Controller for higher temps
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Zerokart resetter, Installed a Extruder Controller for higher temps
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I do not see why a inverter would not work. You would loose some efficiency in the system probably not a lot. there are nonprofits working on this for third world countries.
IIRC my sd4 draws about 120 watts. Home depot selsl a amp meter called a kil- o watt that will measure power use .
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7 2016-02-04 16:00:27 (edited by carl_m1968 2016-02-04 16:12:13)
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http://www.samsclub.com/sams/200-watt-k … mp;veh=sem
The above kit is what you would need. Note this does not include a necessary deep cycle battery. That kit is $649 and would take up about 4 square feet. And weigh about 80 lbs. Not exactly portable but would support off grid printing. But so would a large UPS.
Printing since 2009 and still love it!
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Voxelabs Proxima SLA. 6 inch 2k Mono LCD.
Anycubic Predator, massive Delta machine. 450 x 370 print envelope.