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Topic: Step motor cooling

I'm sure people have done this, but has anyone here put fan's or heatsinks on their motor's?

Ideally I would buy a small computer psu to run the 3 fans I would install as i would also add more gadgets to the printer later so the additional left over power could be used else where.

2 Reply by AZERATE

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Re: Step motor cooling

That is exactly what I did to the 'T'.
http://i.imgur.com/WXp5uWi.jpg

You don't really need a fan for the Z, but your X, Y, and E motors run continuously. Keep fans on those and add a fan on the board and you shouldn't have any issue with overheating.

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Re: Step motor cooling

IRRC one of the upgrades added to thte new SD models.
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