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{{Equipment | |||
| title = Felix | |||
| description = A Donated Felix V1.5 | |||
| image = Felix.jpg | |||
| status = Printing | |||
| owner = Leeds Hackspace | |||
| induction = Yes | |||
| inductionlink = Induction | |||
| manufacturer = Felix Printers | |||
| model = 1.5 | |||
| rfid = No | |||
}} | |||
The | This is a Felix 1.5 donated to the hackspace. The heat bed hates life, so generally will take an age to heat up. It's not it's fault though it's made of Aluminium clad resistors. | ||
== Usage == | |||
Note: You need to be inducted on the printers to use them. This is dead so isn't worth being inducted on yet, but this is here to act as a maintainence guidline | |||
To print with the Felix, ensure the printer is turned on AND plugged into a computer | |||
Load Repetier host, and connect to the printer. Begin heating the bed ASAP, as it takes 20-30 mins | |||
Slice your file with either Repetier, or using an external slicer and then loading your gcode into repetier | |||
Click start print, and the printer will run | |||
The printer has shown it self to run well at 50+mm/s when it wants to | |||
== Maintainance == | |||
The felix prints sometimes, and has many issues | |||
The | === Hotend issues === | ||
The hotend will cut out mid print, resulting in a Thermal monitor warning, and the print being killed | |||
To fix this, try manually modifiying the PID values (See the guide on how to do this on [[Team 3D|Team 3D's]] page, whenever it goes up) | |||
Also, check the powersupply, as it may be having issues kicking out the necesary current. | |||
=== Heat bed === | |||
The heat bed isn't terrible, but it is most definately bad. | |||
Current options: | |||
* Mount a standard reprap heatbed - Needs custom mounting brackets | |||
* Mill/etch custom heatbed - Needs large copper clad board, and CNC induction | |||
* Add more resistors to the current board - Hacky and cheap | |||
The latter two options would be my choice. | |||
=== Bed leveling === | |||
Leveling the bed is a pain. Recomended solutions are same as for the [[MendelMax]]. | |||
== Links === | |||
* http://web.archive.org/web/20130517200319/http://www.felixprinters.com/product-catalog/complete-kits/felix-1-5-complete.html | |||
* http://www.felixprinters.com/downloads_felixprinters | |||
* http://www.felixprinters.com/downloads/?dir=2.%20Tec%20Series/1.%20FELIX%201.5 | |||
* http://www.3dprintingera.com/review-of-felix-1-5/ | |||
[[Category:3D_Printers]] | |||
Latest revision as of 14:27, 3 October 2018
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| A Donated Felix V1.5 | |
| Equipment Information | |
|---|---|
| Status | Printing |
| Manufacturer | Felix Printers |
| Model | 1.5 |
| Hackspace Information | |
| Induction Required | Yes |
| Induction Information | Here |
| Card RFID Enabled | No |
| Owner | Leeds Hackspace |
This is a Felix 1.5 donated to the hackspace. The heat bed hates life, so generally will take an age to heat up. It's not it's fault though it's made of Aluminium clad resistors.
Usage
Note: You need to be inducted on the printers to use them. This is dead so isn't worth being inducted on yet, but this is here to act as a maintainence guidline
To print with the Felix, ensure the printer is turned on AND plugged into a computer
Load Repetier host, and connect to the printer. Begin heating the bed ASAP, as it takes 20-30 mins
Slice your file with either Repetier, or using an external slicer and then loading your gcode into repetier
Click start print, and the printer will run
The printer has shown it self to run well at 50+mm/s when it wants to
Maintainance
The felix prints sometimes, and has many issues
Hotend issues
The hotend will cut out mid print, resulting in a Thermal monitor warning, and the print being killed
To fix this, try manually modifiying the PID values (See the guide on how to do this on Team 3D's page, whenever it goes up)
Also, check the powersupply, as it may be having issues kicking out the necesary current.
Heat bed
The heat bed isn't terrible, but it is most definately bad.
Current options:
- Mount a standard reprap heatbed - Needs custom mounting brackets
- Mill/etch custom heatbed - Needs large copper clad board, and CNC induction
- Add more resistors to the current board - Hacky and cheap
The latter two options would be my choice.
Bed leveling
Leveling the bed is a pain. Recomended solutions are same as for the MendelMax.
Links =
- http://web.archive.org/web/20130517200319/http://www.felixprinters.com/product-catalog/complete-kits/felix-1-5-complete.html
- http://www.felixprinters.com/downloads_felixprinters
- http://www.felixprinters.com/downloads/?dir=2.%20Tec%20Series/1.%20FELIX%201.5
- http://www.3dprintingera.com/review-of-felix-1-5/