RUG/Pennsylvania/State College/Printers/PSU Unit Gold

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Gold
Color: Gold
Extruder: .35mm
Temperature: 200C


This page contains information about the PSU Unit Gold 3D printer.

Current Team

Ian Beavers, Patrick Mangan, Austin Tokarz, Hamed Lashkari

Log

Date Modification / Problem
12/06/2013 The printer's extruder had a meltdown. Ian replaced it and it appears to be working well.
09/04/2013 The printer needs an extruder
09/10/2013 Extruder frame mostly assembled, end stops obtained and attached to mounts, arduino w/ driver obtained.

Next steps: Print large extruder gear, assemble and attach extruder, attach and wire endstops, attach and wire arduino. Also note: We need to add a bearing to the extruder and switch the carriage sides.

02/17/2014 The three brown wires linked PCB and nozzle caused some short circuit so that the PCB was overheat and COM port couldn't recognize it.

Solution: haven't fundamentally solve the problem, just shaking the wire so that it no longer short circuit. Other problem: the nozzle could correctly arrive the position of the main printing part, but sometimes it misses the supporting material's position (it means the same layer the part I want to print is perfect but just the supporting material could not put on the layer below it but put on the aside.) So I think the reason why it happened was related to the programming, the subroutine of motors working for support material may have some wrong calculations.

Operating Specifications

Design Ohm
Electronics RAMPS 1.4
Firmware Marlin
Extruder 0.35mm

Gallery

Modifications & Upgrades

Operation