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Friday, January 18, 2008

Extrusion at different temps

For a speed of 188 (8.81 V) on the Solarbotics 12V version of the GM3 motor, I tried extruding CAPA at different temps. Temps are recorded using the extruder's thermocouple:



It's good to see quite a tight distribution of trends here, as high filament temp eases the load on the extruder, however, it's worth bearing in mind Vik's previous comment: "Be wary of running over 100C. If your plastic has absorbed moisture, you may get steam bubbles. If they're small, no problem. If large, they interrupt the feed of fine extrusions."
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2 comments:

  1. vik-olliverJanuary 20, 2008 9:29 AM

    That seems to translate to about 5g/hr - slightly more than what I've got coming out of the PLA extruder. I've got plenty of torque though. Maybe I should try a 100:1 gearbox?

    Vik :v)

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  2. eDJanuary 20, 2008 4:46 PM

    I'm just about to try experiments at lower speed to see if I can up the quality. I think quality at high speed is tough until the segment pausing bug disappears completely: at high speeds the segment printing and pause dumping ratio makes dumping significant, but at low speed, the dump time becomes almost negligible... we shall see.

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