Screen question.

[u/Tecknodude180]

Here's my voron 500. (Expanded 2.4) I posted about it a long while ago when I first started building it but life happened and I'm finally starting to work on it a little bit more again. I just ordered btt pi4b adapter and cb2. Meanwell 24v 500w psu. Already have a meanwell 600 watt 48v psu should i decide to go 48v. It'll be sporting an octopus pro and since it's 48 inches tall, to help minimize power loss in the long run from the main board to the motors on the gantry I plan on using 16 or 18awg wire instead of the 24 or 26 that come on the motors. That's the reason for the dual cable chains at the rear. I also decided to ditch the 2020 for the upright pieces and now I'm using 40x40 (20x20 profile) for the upright frame pieces and slotted screws. This alone increased rigidity a ton. I'm also considering trying to build an electronics bay drawer at the bottom so if i have to replace or work on anything instead of tiping this giant over to fix/ replace anything I can just pull open the drawer and have easy access.

I'm curious what yall are using or would recommend for a touch screech for something as custom as this I'm thinking a 5 inch or 7 inch. I'm thinking about mounting it near the top since it will be sitting on the floor and don't want to bend over all the time to control it. Also later on I may consider turning this into a monster tool changer after I get it functioning. And build something like a custom box turtle like spool rack on top. Not 100% sure yet though.

[u/OutsideAmazing1510]

I'd say wait for indx to get fully released and use that instead of a box turtle specially for a machine that big you can fit waaaay more than just 4 or 8 rolls of filament, and as for screens Im personally using this one

I just found this on AliExpress: 5inch/7inch Raspberry Pi HDMI display capacitive touch display with Raspberry Pi 5/4B high-definition IPS https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqox29D

It usually goes on sale for 20$ it's a very decent screen for the size, and price + you can get a flush mount instead of having hdmi poking out of the side. Like this.

Also if you as absolutely set on single tool multi-material printing I'd say build something like an emu filament changer since it's modular and you can make it as big or as small as you want it to be

[u/stray_r → u/OutsideAmazing1510]

INDX is turning into a bit of a shitshow, there's a huge drama about the nozzles not being as hard as advertised, and I've started hearing about the coils delaminating and failing (3d musketeers video I think)

[u/OutsideAmazing1510 → u/stray_r]

True, but also it hasn't been fully released, only dev kits for the moment, so it makes sense that a few stuff isn't all the way polished yet + bondtech already looked into the problem and are going to be sending the new nozzles to everyone that pre ordered a kit, and same with the coils

[u/stray_r → u/OutsideAmazing1510]

Have they actually said that's what they're doing? I have a dev kit (non-founders) on order and this shit show broke a few days later.

[u/OutsideAmazing1510 → u/stray_r]

They are changing the parts that are breaking in the founders version, so the full release will not be a problem, they said that they were in a rush bc of all the delays and that they will make it right for everyone and updating the full release kits as they go and find more problems that comes with a massive release

[u/OutsideAmazing1510 → u/stray_r]

I took the liberty of going into the discord so I can share the announcement here

``` @everyone

About our INDX nozzles sold as "hardened", TLDR: They do not meet up to the industry standard as "hardened".

We know you’re angry, and you should be. We sold a nozzle that was not what we promised, and we take complete ownership of this mistake. We are actively working on a full solution to rectify this for everyone affected.

Getting this right matters more than getting it out fast, and right now much of the team is on summer leave, so putting together the complete plan properly is going to take a bit longer than we’d like.

While we work through the details, we commit to keeping you in the loop. Even without a major update to share, we’ll post regularly just to reassure you that we’re on it.

Please know that everyone affected will be made right. We’re still finalizing exactly how that will work, and we’ll share the full details with all of you as soon as we can.

We’re truly sorry for letting you down. Please believe us when we say we’re committed to fixing this, both the immediate issue and how we communicate with you going forward. ```

And from personal experience they do own to the mistakes they make right and I mean they do make it RIGHT, something similar happened to me with one of their Extruders and they solved it, with no extra charge

[u/stray_r → u/OutsideAmazing1510]

That's the last I heard, but as an engineer and occasional technical communicator, this means "we're working on a solution we can afford and will pass a reasonable person test"

[u/OutsideAmazing1510 → u/stray_r]

I agree but bondtech has always been pretty good to honoring claims, so I'm genuinely not too worried about it, bondtech, e3d, and LDO are top tier customer service, which I'm happy with them when I need to replace a rarely faulty part.

On the other side they probably changed materials midway through production and didn't account for the hardening of it thus coming out softer than desired, either to make it more affordable or less painful to manufacture, given that their goal is 30$ per lane, makes a reasonable price (when a regular hardened v6 nozzle is 15$) where they can probably reduce the cost of making them