Heated Bed Woes
Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 8:11 am
Hi there everybody.
So here is my problem.
I purchased the M2 in may of 2013, I stared with PLA, the stringing drove me a little crazy. I moved onto ABS. ABS needs to have a heated bed. Somewhere in the 100-110c range.
My heated bed on my printer will not for any amount of fighting with it get a 100c. I have talked to Josh in the forums back when I first noticed this. We thought that it could be drafts, causing it as it was located in a office. I put a box over it, and while that did help some it was still not doing very well, tried a towel on top of the bed, again it helped some. Now its in my garage and im located in texas, so lets just say its not chilled or cooled in anyway. Its still getting to about 85-90 and not going any higher. No matter what setting i set it to, no matter how long i wait. Nada.
So now Im circling back to the problem, because while using ABS slurry helps and im about to go down the path of hair spray, purple stick glue , etc...
So my troubleshooting so far was to start poking around, i noticed that the red plug right under the bed is rather warm, there also was a kink where the tie strap was.
So I was looking for some other hints. Could it be a firmware thing? ( doubt it but where is crossing my fingers)
So here is my problem.
I purchased the M2 in may of 2013, I stared with PLA, the stringing drove me a little crazy. I moved onto ABS. ABS needs to have a heated bed. Somewhere in the 100-110c range.
My heated bed on my printer will not for any amount of fighting with it get a 100c. I have talked to Josh in the forums back when I first noticed this. We thought that it could be drafts, causing it as it was located in a office. I put a box over it, and while that did help some it was still not doing very well, tried a towel on top of the bed, again it helped some. Now its in my garage and im located in texas, so lets just say its not chilled or cooled in anyway. Its still getting to about 85-90 and not going any higher. No matter what setting i set it to, no matter how long i wait. Nada.
So now Im circling back to the problem, because while using ABS slurry helps and im about to go down the path of hair spray, purple stick glue , etc...
So my troubleshooting so far was to start poking around, i noticed that the red plug right under the bed is rather warm, there also was a kink where the tie strap was.
So I was looking for some other hints. Could it be a firmware thing? ( doubt it but where is crossing my fingers)