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How many of you run your printer while you are not at home. What are the chances of one of these burning your house down?
Its not likely to burn the house down.
More likely to be having other problems. Yet once it is set up properly, you could have a print farm.
I have messed around with a webcam setup to monitor it in case the part comes off the bed or the nozzle plugs. I was just curious as to how many of you are doing it.
when i begin a 14hours print.. sure i will let it finish even if i'm not at home... 
I've started a job while at work as well as let it print while I am away. I use a web cam to periodically view the result so I can stop it if it is failing. No house fires yet.
Excellent!
I've never heard of anyone's house being burned down from any 3D printer for any reason ever. I have heard of one (1) small electrical fire that only damaged the printer, and even that was repairable. In addition, I never have time to watch more than the first layer or two anymore. I'll start a print in the evening, pop in once before bed to check on it, pop in before work the next morning, and then it's usually done when I get home. Rinse, repeat. I wanted to do a webcam stream, but 1. I have no wifi signal from my garage and 2. when I was printing in my basement, running the stream MAJORLY slowed down my internet connect, which irritated my lady. I wanted a satellite-based camera but they continue to be outside my budget.
I print while at work and while asleep all the time. I like to use my "awake time" for printing smaller things, designing, tweaking/upgrading the printer, and slicing.
Just make sure you set it to kill the bed heat when the print finishes, and be prepared to come back to a mess of filament if anything goes wrong. Nothing dangerous, just a few minutes of potential cleanup.
I am running my first remote print as we speak. I still have a remote connection to my computer so things must be going well!
Good Luck!
some one posted on youtube a SD3? That had an arm that would sweep off the bed, thus allowing the owner to print small parts till the filament ran out. The machine could run autonomously.
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With how well my parts have stuck in the past, I wouldn't want to try this. The extruder would have smashed well and truly before the part came off the bed. Almost need to have a failsafe system with a spring and a limit switch. If the part doesn't come off the bed with x amount of force, the spring compresses and the limit switch is touched causing the "sweep" to abort and flag an error to the user in the software.
I too had the same concern as the OP, especially if the software/printer crashed meaning the the extruder head had stopped on the part, continuing to heat it until it burnt. So far I have found that even on a crash the heating process is stopped so I just end up with a dark cigarette style burn were the extruder was (before it cooled). Not much of an issue. Maybe a crash leads to loss of connection, leads to the whole process being killed. A print that comes off the bed before it is finished leads to spaghetti fluff all over the place.
Though coming home to a smouldering house still worries me. I don't want my soliwidow to have more of a reason to hate the 3D printer.
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