The “wasted” amount of z-space is extremely minor in the larger scheme.
A heated bed is not necessary for a product in this category. You burn a LOT of energy trying to keep the bed heated (far more than what you burn for everything else in the system combined), which winds up complicating a lot of things in the system, both mechanically and electrically.
Unheated bed is fine as long as the leveling works.
But that’s the curiosity because it looks like you’re going to use an electrical bed probe, but that means we can’t put Kapton tape over the bed and print on top of that, which is what I would prefer.
Unless there’s an inductive probe in there that I couldn’t see.
We’re using electric, but it will be a one time calibration.
i think you’ll find that they tried really hard trying to make this machine smaller and portable. and adding a massive power supply needed to power the heated bed is pretty counter productive. unless you use high voltage stuff, but that kinda makes it dangerous for tinkerers not to mention the life of the handmade heater mats is kinda unknown.
@Shai_Schechter I hope you’re not being too literal there.
But yes, I suppose a user can probe and then apply the surface and hopefully things won’t shift around over the lifetime of the surface (and the surface itself is uniform enough not to throw things off).
but… if this is gonna be used purely pla, were is the cooling fan ?
@william_foster Read the comments above. The layer fan is included but not pictured.