I have an old solidoodle 3 printer that a friend gave me. I finally got it printing almost correctly, but the heater bed never reaches 100 degrees C. I preheat it using manual on repetier, and it's verrrrrry slow and never really goes past 60 degress. Ideas? Thoughts?
Insulate the rear of the heater pad well, also, you can throw a silicone pad over the heater bed itself, insulating it, allowing it to reach temp faster. As mentioned, might have a hard time maintaining that temp though (Need enclosed printer). You can buy a micro 120V space heater off amazon, i have it in the bottom of my solidoodle 3 with a PID controller that maintains 100F interior temp when I was really into printing ABS. Works wonders.
]]>I run 90 for ABS and PETG and then 60 for PLA. Guess it just depends on the bed and printer really and if your set temp is the actual temp at the bed.
the stock solidoodle beds are undersized and do generally need a higher temp for good results. I used to set mine for 100C and quite often had issues with larger prints.
Since I swapped mine over to the Calidum Hale heatbeds from Print It, I have been able to drop the temp down to about 90C (as reported in RH) and still get very good results.
So yes, it does depend a great deal on the setup.
In this case - if the OP is still using the stock power supply, that would be my guess as to the source of his issues
]]>Could be a weak power supply. Also you should never need to go above 90 for any material on a heated bed. You could get a separate power supply and use a solid state relay controlled by the original control circuit to heat the bed faster. But I will let the SD experts chime in on this one.
I run my bed for ABS at 110c
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