RepRap: Blog

I've sorted out a niggle with the RepRapMicron's ground plane. It was tiresome to get the spring-loaded clip onto the aluminium foil that's used as a reference touch plane and UV shield for the reservoir. I've soldered the ground wire to the M8 washer that magnetically clamps the slide down. You clamp the slide in place, and it's grounded!

I've stuck the wire to the other side of the washer with hot melt glue as a nod to strain relief.

As I've increased the length of the slide covered in foil from 25mm to 30mm, the edge of the foil/reservoir can go right up to the UV LED, with the probe at (0,0). This means I do not have to set the reservoir location in code every single time. I just relocate the part on the slicer's print bed. I get more working volume too.

You do have to make sure the probe goes a fair bit over the reservoir to stop the UV LED underneath setting the probe tip into a solid block!

The "dipify" code had a round of debugging, mostly to do with maintaining safe Z height.

I'll try the new slide and the latest dipify out before making a finer probe.