Recent content by BrianL

I don't know what chamber temps you are chasing but I run approx 50 to 55c with 85c on the nitehawk mcu on a nitehawk-SB with no problems. I have had no issues in 500 hours of run time. The Nitehawk-36 first release did have issues and, im pretty sure, there was a recall due to this. If yours...

Hi, can you upload your printer.cfg and the motor model for your X/Y motors?

Back of fag packet calcs so take it with a pinch of salt. To be honest, if you are procuring everything new for the build then look CoreXY - same bed will have a much smaller footprint. Other option is to drop a smaller bed in a standard SW frame - will still boost performance on the Y axis and...

If you are only looking to run the one MCU board then no issue with the Pi zero 2 w. If you want to start hanging toolhead boards, klipper screens, usb cameras etc off it then it is not much difference in price to go for a Pi 3 or 4 when you take into account the price of powered usb hubs. I...

I should have the toolhead complete in a couple of days to then make some measurements - just waiting on a blade for the Filamatrex cutter - the rest is on the printer. There are a couple of mounts on printables for the x rail compressor mount - will have a good idea if there is much bed space...

Have made some progress: Most of the main prints are done and installed. Did a bit of work tidying the under deck and got the new Pi4 installed and running while replacing all of the mounting prints. The Zero 2 W was running serial but I decided to move over to USB for this one - dhd to...

That should read FilamAtrix which is a fork of Filametrix

I was also looking at this as a future project for my Switchwire. I am rebuilding mine bring it up to spec and one option was to incorporate the Filametrix cutter into the Stealthburner / CW2 combo during this process. The mod itself doesn't look like it modifies the toolhead mount so the...

Managed to get a bit done on it this week. With what i have pulled off and replaced I am surprised it was printing as well as it did! Motor mounts where quite badly delaminating. Rear grills done Underdeck mounts all printed and replaced with the Pi 4 replacing the Zero 2 W. Just need to do a...

I run off the front trim tonight to see if I liked the colour. This is in Polymaker Gray ABS.

I thought I would log this one here as this printer has a bit of history and it is time to rebuild it properly. I'd say there are a few Switchwires out there that have some dodgy first ABS prints on them :) I purchased early 2024 to dip my toe in the Voron waters, so to speak. I purchased...

Have you crashed yours yet? Mines pushing past 80 deg C now I am getting my chamber temps up. Any cooling fan options for it that you know of?

Hi Roger, Sorry to hear you are not in good health! From my own experience, my Voron 2.4 is a very quiet printer when compared to the likes of my old Ender 3. To drop the decibels even further there are plenty of things you can do to achieve this. For fumes / plastic particulates, there is a...

BTT SKR Mini E3 V3 but you can run any of the popular boards out there with less steppers populated i.e Octopus with 2209's Pretty much anything with minimum 4 steppers, 24 volts that has the capacity to run your bed current draw as the prusa (or ender 3 etc) beds are 24V. If you want to run a...

Thanks for all of the info - much appreciated. I have installed 3 bed fans (centre, Left and right) and run those up for the last print of smaller items (LED mounts) at 40% but still temp limited in the chamber (max 44c after 4 hours) but ambient temps this last few days has been below 8c in the...