Finally! Printing 3dbenchy with water-cooled E3D.
Impressive
@Adam_Steinmark
Very quiet.
@Rien_Stouten
Ton of tubing though. What’s your build area?
@Adam_Steinmark
about 300X300X250mm
Very cool. (no pun intended)
This is great. What did you use to cool the stepper motors?
@Mike_Kelly_Mike_Make These: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181021321850?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
and this :http://www.ebay.com/itm/261457976543?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
and this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121290018389?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
the e3 has a great heat sink whats the point of water cooling it?
Add a finished pic to the original post?
@Graydon_Treude Yes, you are right, there is nothing wrong with the E3D heatsink. But this printer is bigger than most, and with bigger comes weight. And with weight comes a heavier load on the stepper motors, with that heavy-duty drivers, and with all that I ended up with cooling-fans on my motors. The noise of all those fans was getting absurd. With this setup, I have only one cooling-fan, and bigger fans produce less noise. Furthermore I want to make my printer completely enclosed, to create a heated build-chamber. I cannot do that without water-cooling the motors and the cold-end. No use trying to cool something with hot air, is there? And although the E3D heatsink performs very well in keeping the right temperatures, there is one thing I don’t like about it. I’ve noticed that the airflow generated by the cooling fan creates problems with big ABS prints. And I do love ABS.
@Adam_Steinmark Huh?
@Rien_Stouten oh ok
@Rien_Stouten Edit your original post to include a finished picture of 3dbenchy
@Adam_Steinmark Ah, now I understand. That will have to wait though, since the thing came of the build plate too early. Right now I’m on vacation, so maybe in a couple of weeks.
@Rien_Stouten Gotcha. Enjoy