1 Topic by paramite12 (edited by paramite12 2015-01-08 23:26:19)

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Topic: Heated bed takes an enormous time to warm up.

Exactly what the title says. It takes at least an hour to warm up and it's fully enclosed. I upgraded my nozzle to an E3D and put in a new power supply, but it only made it heat up slightly faster (used to take even longer than a hour, couldn't even reach 90 degrees no matter what). What all can I check to see what is wrong with it? It also has a really hard time getting over 90 degrees.

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Re: Heated bed takes an enormous time to warm up.

It is probably time to upgrade your bed heater to a more powerful unit.
Waiting longer than 5 minutes is more than I can stand wink

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Re: Heated bed takes an enormous time to warm up.

Yeah, I really want to. Do you have any links to pages where people have done that so I can get an idea of what to get and how to do it?

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Re: Heated bed takes an enormous time to warm up.

Start here http://www.soliforum.com/topic/6181/sil … idoodle-3/
There are many options but that one is fairly straight forward.   You're just going to have to search around for ideas.
Most bed heater upgrades involve a PSU upgrade and a relay (SSR).

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Re: Heated bed takes an enormous time to warm up.

Cool, thank you.

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Re: Heated bed takes an enormous time to warm up.

+1 on the upgrade...

In the meantime, throw a potholder on the bed while heating and this will help a bit...

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Re: Heated bed takes an enormous time to warm up.

I swapped out the original heater pad with a 120v one and a solid state relay to run it. Now I heat up to 95C in about a minute.