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=Short Carriage=
*Limits the depth of belt peg insertion.
*Belt peg needs optimization. Can shorten peg. Right now 90% goes all the way in and 95% goes in more than half way.
=Notes=
=Notes=
*Do not use E3D instructions for heat tightening, they are wrong for the OSE case. They lead to re-do of heat tightening in most cases. I added [[MJ Comment on Heat Tightening]] at the Titan Aero build instructions at https://e3d-online.dozuki.com/Guide/Titan+Aero+Assembly/23.
*Do not use E3D instructions for heat tightening, they are wrong for the OSE case. They lead to re-do of heat tightening in most cases. I added [[MJ Comment on Heat Tightening]] at the Titan Aero build instructions at https://e3d-online.dozuki.com/Guide/Titan+Aero+Assembly/23.
==Heat Tightening==
==Heat Tightening==
*For heat tightening a number of extruders at once - a 30A power supply can support up to 9 heater blocks at one time (360W) pushing the supply to the limit. Good idea may be to have a jig: just a power supply to make connection easy - ideally plugging 6 heater blocks at a time, and disconnecting one as soon as we are done with it and connecting the next one in line. This eliminates heatup time. At the same time, a RAMPS should be available to test that the thermistor is working, where 2 thermistors (extruder + bed) could be plugged in at one time. So you could cycle through all of them. Heat tightnen one after another. After initial heating (several minutes) - heat tightening should take a minute per nozzle - one right after another. Here, would going to 24V system help? Not sure, as power is power.
*For heat tightening a number of extruders at once - a 30A power supply can support up to 9 heater blocks at one time (360W) pushing the supply to the limit. Good idea may be to have a jig: just a power supply to make connection easy - ideally plugging 6 heater blocks at a time, and disconnecting one as soon as we are done with it and connecting the next one in line. This eliminates heatup time. At the same time, a RAMPS should be available to test that the thermistor is working, where 2 thermistors (extruder + bed) could be plugged in at one time. So you could cycle through all of them. Heat tightnen one after another. After initial heating (several minutes) - heat tightening should take a minute per nozzle - one right after another. Here, would going to 24V system help? Not sure, as power is power.


=Kits=
=Kits=

Revision as of 20:12, 14 March 2019

Short Carriage

  • Limits the depth of belt peg insertion.
  • Belt peg needs optimization. Can shorten peg. Right now 90% goes all the way in and 95% goes in more than half way.

Notes

Heat Tightening

  • For heat tightening a number of extruders at once - a 30A power supply can support up to 9 heater blocks at one time (360W) pushing the supply to the limit. Good idea may be to have a jig: just a power supply to make connection easy - ideally plugging 6 heater blocks at a time, and disconnecting one as soon as we are done with it and connecting the next one in line. This eliminates heatup time. At the same time, a RAMPS should be available to test that the thermistor is working, where 2 thermistors (extruder + bed) could be plugged in at one time. So you could cycle through all of them. Heat tightnen one after another. After initial heating (several minutes) - heat tightening should take a minute per nozzle - one right after another. Here, would going to 24V system help? Not sure, as power is power.

Kits

Based on the notes at Kit Certification - there is a significant value proposition behind distributed production of 3D printer kits based on the OSE 3D printer design.

Our unique value proposition that enables distributed production is that one can build our printer from common, off-the-shelf-parts - and attain industrial performance. This is not the same as Prusa (OS?, Lulzbot (OS), or Jellybox (FOS) - 3 leading printers.

The question remains if distributed quality control can succeed in producing high quality products in a distributed fashion.

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