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hi! has anyone has a FLSUN v400 that had the MOS module melt? it had less than 20 hours of print and was only used by experimented users who didn't mod it. i think the module is cooked, as hole has been burned around the leg of the positive lead of the heating bed.

we're buying a new module but we're bummed up we can't use it for a month.

#3dprinting #FLSUN

Everything is hosed with silicone. Except they first hosed it into the male connectors, then inserted them. The level of fun getting these fiddly connectors out was somewhere around sticking hot needless in a tender spot of your body.

Then the stupid Youtube video skipped multiple critical parts. I scratched my head with the cover's removal, but there's more screws than shown in the video. Also lot of these screws had completely randomly torqued. Some were about to fall off, some were tightened with the force of a thousand suns. Multiple hex screws had signs of the assembly worker's screw driver slipping and the screws were extremely painful to remove.

In the end it took around 40 minutes to get to the extruder gears, mostly because of incorrect documentation, absolutely horrible, service-hostile design and silicone or hot glue everywhere. Plus hex screws that were now nicely rounded inside.

#flsun #3dprinting

#3DPrinting annoyance...

I have an #FLSun #V400 delta printer. A few upgrades, including to stock Klipper. I'm happy with it.

The issue: it's got a filament runout sensor up at the top of the print volume, right after the filament comes down through the top compartment of the printer, which houses the MCU and stepper motors. That works fine for detecting the end of a reel of filament.

But it's basically useless for detecting a filament break, because every break I've had has been between the sensor and the effector/hotend. The sensor happily indicates "filament good" while the hotend uses the remaining ~50cm of filament and then continues to print nothing, while cooking the leftover plastic in the hotend.

What do others do about this? Should I be moving the runout sensor to the effector, just on top of the extruder? Or I've seen what appear to be fancier sensors that detect filament movement, rather than being just a simple presence switch. Anyone have any experience with those?

I appreciate any thoughts from the more-experienced printers in the fedi. Thanks!

#filament #break #runout #sensor

#3DPrinting annoyance...

I have an #FLSun #V400 delta printer. A few upgrades, including to stock Klipper. I'm happy with it.

The issue: it's got a filament runout sensor up at the top of the print volume, right after the filament comes down through the top compartment of the printer, which houses the MCU and stepper motors. That works fine for detecting the end of a reel of filament.

But it's basically useless for detecting a filament break, because every break I've had has been between the sensor and the effector/hotend. The sensor happily indicates "filament good" while the hotend uses the remaining ~50cm of filament and then continues to print nothing, while cooking the leftover plastic in the hotend.

What do others do about this? Should I be moving the runout sensor to the effector, just on top of the extruder? Or I've seen what appear to be fancier sensors that detect filament movement, rather than being just a simple presence switch. Anyone have any experience with those?

I appreciate any thoughts from the more-experienced printers in the fedi. Thanks!

#filament #break #runout #sensor

#3DPrinting annoyance...

I have an #FLSun #V400 delta printer. A few upgrades, including to stock Klipper. I'm happy with it.

The issue: it's got a filament runout sensor up at the top of the print volume, right after the filament comes down through the top compartment of the printer, which houses the MCU and stepper motors. That works fine for detecting the end of a reel of filament.

But it's basically useless for detecting a filament break, because every break I've had has been between the sensor and the effector/hotend. The sensor happily indicates "filament good" while the hotend uses the remaining ~50cm of filament and then continues to print nothing, while cooking the leftover plastic in the hotend.

What do others do about this? Should I be moving the runout sensor to the effector, just on top of the extruder? Or I've seen what appear to be fancier sensors that detect filament movement, rather than being just a simple presence switch. Anyone have any experience with those?

I appreciate any thoughts from the more-experienced printers in the fedi. Thanks!

#filament #break #runout #sensor

#3DPrinting annoyance...

I have an #FLSun #V400 delta printer. A few upgrades, including to stock Klipper. I'm happy with it.

The issue: it's got a filament runout sensor up at the top of the print volume, right after the filament comes down through the top compartment of the printer, which houses the MCU and stepper motors. That works fine for detecting the end of a reel of filament.

But it's basically useless for detecting a filament break, because every break I've had has been between the sensor and the effector/hotend. The sensor happily indicates "filament good" while the hotend uses the remaining ~50cm of filament and then continues to print nothing, while cooking the leftover plastic in the hotend.

What do others do about this? Should I be moving the runout sensor to the effector, just on top of the extruder? Or I've seen what appear to be fancier sensors that detect filament movement, rather than being just a simple presence switch. Anyone have any experience with those?

I appreciate any thoughts from the more-experienced printers in the fedi. Thanks!

#filament #break #runout #sensor

I now have a stand/holder designed for this case.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6755438

For this I used CadQuery (rather than Python on top of OpenSCAD). It's my first project with CadQuery; there are things I quite like about it, and other things I'm finding klunky, which probably means I'm using it wrong for those things. I expect it will get better as I get more comfortable with it.

#3DPrinting #FLSun #V400 #SpeederPad #case #stand #holder

It doesn't stop until the motor-timeout is hit, *or* I manually disable motors - at which point the ticking instantly stops.

Any idea why the steppers are still being activated after the print is complete? Does it serve a purpose? Seems like a waste of energy, and needless stress on the hardware.

Running vanilla Klipper version v0.12.0-290-g14a83103c on an #FLSun #V400.

#Stepper #StepperMotor #tick

2/2

So, I decided I wanted to try using an #enclosure for my #FLSun #V400 to try to reduce warping issues. I bought the official kit - it's fairly nice bulbous #polycarbonate panels for each of the 3 sides, and shouldn't have any issues with the effector clearance.

Installing it...

1/x

#3DPrinting

The company that made my printer says they might send me free filament if I post a pic of their product. And also this pic is kinda cute.

We will see if they hold up their end of the bargain for a Mastodon post.

#flsun3dprinter, #V400, #flsun, #bestprinter

The part that's insane is that all 3 panels install this way. There's no hinge for the front panel, which should be a door that swings open. Having to slide the front panel up to get at the print bed makes no sense at all! And I'm not sure as I haven't tried it yet, but you would have to take the top of the printer off to do this?

Am I missing something hugely obvious here?

3/3

#flsun #v400 #insane #design #hinge #door #swing

I got an FLSUN V400 as my second 3D #printer after frankensteining my first printer to its limits. It's nice.

It runs (unfortunately not stock by default) Klipper, and comes with the "#SpeederPad", a small ARM-based touchscreen computer to run the UI and the #Klipper software. Also unfortunately, it only has a WiFi connection.

Except... the board inside actually has an unpopulated place on the board for an RJ45 ethernet port.

1/x

#3DPrinting #FLSun #V400 #delta

@koz

I think it is all due to the "Stae of #opensource in #3dprinting" by Josef #Prusa that led to this.

We have 3 routes we can take now. #Closedsource #Bambu printers, semi-open #Creality (which is just a copy of everything out their basically), and #Opensource #Voron.

I am disappointed in Creality just becoming copy-cats and also releasing stupid stuff like the Creality #SonicPad and locking it up as much as the #FLSun 400 controller.

But companies like #AnyCubic aren't even trying to copy #Prusa. They are just cntrl+f'ing them by now.

@3dprinting #3dprinting

Bed lighting upgrade is installed!

This should make it a lot easier to see the first layer being printed versus using a flashlight.

I have the two front lights on one switch and the rear light on a second switch so I can choose which ones I want to turn on.

#3DPrinting #FLSun #FLSunSR

Printer calibration is essentially done.

Might make a few more minor adjustments as I go but currently it’s printing well enough for some functional prints like these USB cable clips that I’ll stick inside the bottom of the printer housing to hold the USB cables in place for the LED lights in each pillar.

#FLSun #FLSunSR #3DPrinting

It lives!!!

Let the calibrating begin!

#3DPrinting #FLSun #FLSunSR

New fans are installed on the effector housing.

I’m ready now to put everything back together, re-lube all the ball joints and linear rails, and tension all the belts.

Then I can start some calibration prints 🤞

#3DPrinting #FLSun #FLSunSR

The upgrades continue!

Got a few minutes free tonight so I just installed the magnetic sheet to hold the PEI build plate.

#3DPrinting #FLSun #FLSunSR

Wiring these fans for the JST SM connectors is a bit of a finicky process huh?

Both newly wired fans are tested and working though 😊

#3DPrinting #FLSun #FLSunSR

New extruder is built and installed on the stepper motor.

Still have a couple of more upgrades to do first before I print anything.

One upgrade at a time and tweak as I go? Naw let’s just do all the upgrades and start from scratch dialing in settings lol

#3DPrinting #FLSun #FLSunSR

Stock extruder is disassembled and cleaned so I can put it back together for storage.

Now I need to build the new extruder so it will work with my stepper motor.

#3DPrinting #FLSun #FLSunSR

I love the smell of PLA in the early morning #haikuos #octoprint #stlover #flsun #3dprint

FLSUN S1 et T1 : des imprimantes 3D Delta fermées ultra rapides
Les nouvelles imprimantes Delta FLSUN S1 et T1 sont annoncées. Prévues pour 2024 elles vont proposer un grand volume et une belle vitesse d'impression.... #minimachines #flsun #impression3d
https://www.minimachines.net/actu/flsun-s1-flsun-t1-123329

@austinphilp @johnke

Not familiar with that one. My first was an FLSun QQ-S Pro #delta. A lot of the stuff I did on/to the printer was various #upgrades and changes and fixes and whatnot - but there were also enough clogs and other simple problems that just meant an hour or two here, an hour or two there... it adds up.

At this point, it's only about 50% FLSun 😉

Bought another #FLSun recently. Only put the included baby spool through it so far, but zero problems.

Does anyone have a #Flsun V400 or the Flsun Speeder Pad?

Looking at the specs it has #Ubuntu 18.04, but that goes out of standard support at the end of May.

Three questions:
1) Do you have root on the speeder pad?
2) anyone ever moved up to the next LTS on this device?
3) Is it stock #Klipper or is there secret sauce that Flsun has to provide?

https://flsun3d.com/products/speeder-pad

#3dPrinting

So ganz vielleicht ist mal wieder ein Hobby eskaliert 🫣 #flsun #3dprinting

WildRoseBuilds did a really nice job comparing the #FLSUN V400 to the #BambuLab P1P.

From an #OSS perspective, I have a real hard time with how Bambu Lab has managed hardware and software. It looks like a fine printer that is likely bad for the hobby.

The V400 looks like a viable alternative that's a little more $ but has a much better OSS profile. There is good potential for it to become even better over time with community support and contribution.

#3dprinting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEFNg4ylWLo

FLSUN V400 : l’impression 3D prend de la vitesse

La FLSUN V400 est une solution de type Delta impressionnante. Idéale pour ceux qui cherchent a prototyper rapidement des projets.

https://www.minimachines.net/actu/flsun-v400-limpression-3d-prend-de-la-vitesse-113755

#flsun #impression3D #minimachines