September 19, 2020
Description
Do you want to speed up the cooling time of the 3d model at the end of printing?
Do you need to automate a continuous printing process and want to automatically detach the model at the end of printing quickly?
This is the accessory for you! With this specific accessory for the Artillery Sidewinder X1 3D printer you can, with a few simple modifications, detailed below, add a cooling fan for the model and the bed of your printer. Below I have reported all the instructions to make the modifications to your printer and the related Gcode to add to the slicing program to be run at the end of printing to carry out the cooling process.
LIST OF MATERIALS
The 24V DC power supply and the board you find in the attached schematic are yet mounted in your printer, you only need to buy and mount the materials listed above.
MOUNTING PROCESS
It is necessary to open the printer and insert the relay module, making the necessary connections shown, then I recommend to route the fan power cables out of the printer from the opening where the left Z motor is connected.
The stand and the fan are mounted just behind the left Z motor of the printer, without the need to make any additional holes, just unscrew the two screws already present on the flat part of the printer and mount the support.
THE GCODE
in your printing/slicer software add the following additional Gcode to be executed at the end of the print and you are ready to go!
; bed off
M140 S0
; move extruder up 10mm
G91
G0 Z10
G90
; cooling position
G0 X150 Y0 F6000
; motors off
M18
; fan on
M42 P33 S255
; light red
M150 I255 R255 G0 U0
; wait for 38°C
M190 R38
; fan off
M42 P33 S0
; exit position
G0 Y300 F6000
; motors off
M18
; bed off
M140 S0
; light green
M150 I255 R0 G0 U255
License:
Creative Commons - Attribution
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