Comments on: Control Box and Heater Test http://bothacker.com/2010/02/26/control-box-and-heater-test/ Robotics, RepRap, and other Mechanalia Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eran http://bothacker.com/2010/02/26/control-box-and-heater-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 Eran Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:51:59 +0000 http://bothacker.com/?p=234#comment-1860 Hi Tim.

May I ask you a few questions?
I’m an industrial design student from Israel, just completed building my CNC mill, and built an extruder as well.

Here’s my questions:

1) I have a 4 Axis stepper driver (similar to gecko, but cheap..) – I connected the 4th axis to my extruder, will this work? and how?

2) I bought a max 6675 breake-out board + type K thermistor. I also have a nichrome wire – how do I connect everything toghther? (I do I heat up the nichrome?) – do you have any code for the arduino?

3) How do you feel to have the most beautiful DIY 3d printer? :)

Thank you
Eran

]]> By: Tim http://bothacker.com/2010/02/26/control-box-and-heater-test/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Tim Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:16:13 +0000 http://bothacker.com/?p=234#comment-416 Nophead, I’m glad to hear that. I’ve already touched the bare heated metal twice accidentally – not fun.

]]> By: nophead http://bothacker.com/2010/02/26/control-box-and-heater-test/comment-page-1/#comment-415 nophead Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:04:04 +0000 http://bothacker.com/?p=234#comment-415 Hi Tim,
I find that with the bed covered in something like Kapton it is not too dangerous if you touch it. You can pull away before it burns you, presumably because it is not as conductive as metal.

The same is true of of my extruder when it is covered by PTFE.

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