Hey all,
so what is the delta z-probe that all the cool kids are using these days? Does vanilla Marlin support g29 for Deltas? (It didn’t about 6 months ago when I was messing around with z-probes).
If you had to build a delta with a z-probe, how would you do it ?
I personally really like @Steve_Graber 's pivoted approach. I’m trying to build a version of it for DM. He said he moved away from it though because he was doing bigger and bigger machines and bed flex became an issue. If you have a really thick, sturdy bed I’d say go with that. If not, he went with the touchless probe that printrbot is using.
Dont know about marlin, but it should suport it. Im now a happy repetier fw user since 0.91.6 came out. It really has the edge over marlin. If I were to decide for a probe id use inductive senzor with bigger sencing distance. The problem is, souch sensors came in bigger packages, talking 12mm OD and more. Other problem is getting one to work on 5V. Normally they operate 10-30V, but this is easy solvable with couple resistors.
Question is why do you want this now? Mine is perfect now for more than 1000 hours and when I need to do something I just fire up and go. What kind of end switches do you use?
I have hall effect end switches. I lose calibration pretty quickly, probably due to the fact the printer itself is a giant slapped-together hack.
You should be good with hals. The mechanical can cause problems over time, thats why I ask. Anyways the only reason id implement the probe is to ease the Z0 finding. All other I prefer to have mechanically correct. This is the only way to make sure good and acurate prints. Maybe you should look into stiffening the construction?