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Topic: New printer here..

Well after the y axis death,  the thread lock discovery earlier this week and Amazon prime day forcing me to spend money,  I decided to set my solidoodle 2 to pasture for the being and ordered a monoprice maker ultimate to see how "the kids these days print things".

So far, I have to say I'm impressed. My first print was ... successful! Circles were circles.  The magic black sandpaper stuff( think it is called buildtak) actually works as advertised.  I used the cura it came with and did a basic fast slice to start printing quality of life upgrades..  I went with a hollow tube spool holder.  It lost maybe 2 threads on the half inch  bridges.

I am currently printing this tiny tower like thing to guide the filament.  It is about a 1/4 square column.  It is about 4 inches tall so far and it is still perfect.


Anyway enough rambling... My question...

Inside the base there is a blinding blue led blinking about 4 times a second when it prints... Is there anyway to disable that without hardware mods (maybe an eprom value?). The only mention I've heard of the light at all is sometime it is red.  I find it rather annoying. Maybe even to the point of returning the printer..

I may just take a sharpie to it if it is not surface mount.  Then again would a sharpje hurt smd?

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Re: New printer here..

Why would you have two inch bridges on the spool holder? Such an item should be printed upright so the printer never has to do bridging. As for the LED just put a piece of tape over it.

Printing since 2009 and still love it!
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Re: New printer here..

Half inch bridges in the interior on threaded Part. There were 2 droopping threads which is excellent compared to old printer.

As for why sideways,I've found prints are strongest when the layers are perpendicular to the expected force.  Also if there is any delamination it tends to be less catastrophic.

...also I wanted to stress test the slicer/printer.