@DJai I will get around to a nice selection of pics of the two setups. I promise, ive just been a bit knee deep into work, and while not at work ive been trying to get this 3d printer finished but like most things in life im hitting issues. Hopefully over the next day or two I will get a ton of pics of the machines.
For now though we are just going to have to listen to me chat rubbish about 3d printers for a bit and hopefully get some friendly help and advice from whoever comes across the thread. I know people out there are reading so I will carry on until the bitter end. Anyway time to talk 3d printer, some bits are here so I thought I would share the pics as well as some of the issues I have encountered and my plans going forward. First up the board and drivers which is now all set up and loaded with firmware, I have also configured the firmware on my BTT tft24 and tested touch screen stuff but to be fair have decided on the bigger 35 which should hopefully be here soon so won't bother showing you the 24 config. I thought I had the 2209 but I do in fact have the BTT 2208 driver for now:
Lets talk about the bed a little bit because the bed is something that I keep ploughing money into and as yet haven't really found everything that I wanted so I have a load of random bits, none of which really fit together, with this random idea of how it might work in my head. Let me tell you this, you should probably go into this with a bit more of a plan than I have as it will be much more cost effective. If you do what I am doing you will learn a ton and quickly but will probably spend a load more than buying say something like an ender 3. Anyway I have kind of settled on a bed that I am happy with, well sort of at least, let me show you first with a couple of pics and then ill talk about it after:
I think you can see to get the size build plate I was looking for I appear to have bought an ender (dunno what one) bed as well as an uprated 3 point thing, now my initial plan was to use this:
Which is a 150w 12v gel heat pad and is 220x220 while the holes in the ender bed are 190x190 so that's kind of now out of the question now, that then leaves me in a bit sticky situation as everything for my build including the power supply is 12v and this is the 4th 12v heat pad I have bought with the 24v ender one being the 5th, you see the problem though I either need to go 24v on the bed or have a rethink if I want the kind of quality bed that I do. Anyway I am waffling, I sat down and had a little think about it and I am going to carry on using my 12v 40a supply and work something out. I think I kind of have the solution but who knows, either way I spent some more money and added another component inline with the bed mosfet, I think this is just basically a big buck converter and should I think do the trick:
For the price of it I am 100% ripping it apart to see what is inside before I let this loose in my house as it's cheap.
For now though we are just going to have to listen to me chat rubbish about 3d printers for a bit and hopefully get some friendly help and advice from whoever comes across the thread. I know people out there are reading so I will carry on until the bitter end. Anyway time to talk 3d printer, some bits are here so I thought I would share the pics as well as some of the issues I have encountered and my plans going forward. First up the board and drivers which is now all set up and loaded with firmware, I have also configured the firmware on my BTT tft24 and tested touch screen stuff but to be fair have decided on the bigger 35 which should hopefully be here soon so won't bother showing you the 24 config. I thought I had the 2209 but I do in fact have the BTT 2208 driver for now:
Lets talk about the bed a little bit because the bed is something that I keep ploughing money into and as yet haven't really found everything that I wanted so I have a load of random bits, none of which really fit together, with this random idea of how it might work in my head. Let me tell you this, you should probably go into this with a bit more of a plan than I have as it will be much more cost effective. If you do what I am doing you will learn a ton and quickly but will probably spend a load more than buying say something like an ender 3. Anyway I have kind of settled on a bed that I am happy with, well sort of at least, let me show you first with a couple of pics and then ill talk about it after:
I think you can see to get the size build plate I was looking for I appear to have bought an ender (dunno what one) bed as well as an uprated 3 point thing, now my initial plan was to use this:
Which is a 150w 12v gel heat pad and is 220x220 while the holes in the ender bed are 190x190 so that's kind of now out of the question now, that then leaves me in a bit sticky situation as everything for my build including the power supply is 12v and this is the 4th 12v heat pad I have bought with the 24v ender one being the 5th, you see the problem though I either need to go 24v on the bed or have a rethink if I want the kind of quality bed that I do. Anyway I am waffling, I sat down and had a little think about it and I am going to carry on using my 12v 40a supply and work something out. I think I kind of have the solution but who knows, either way I spent some more money and added another component inline with the bed mosfet, I think this is just basically a big buck converter and should I think do the trick:
For the price of it I am 100% ripping it apart to see what is inside before I let this loose in my house as it's cheap.
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- Am I mental? very, very possibly. I shall start with these 5 and if it works out like I am thinking it will, then it should be interesting to see. There are still other options I am considering including vdi solutions but time is not on my side so that is looking to be next phase type stuff. So far these might mean I can hit the deadline as well as get rid of some other bigger problems. Who said enterprise isn't buying AMD? 
Love our Rome servers absolute beasts.
I know you shouldn't get too caught up in these sorts of things and it's just a job or whatever but it keeps me in the things I like and I love what I do. I am trusted to get on and do the right things and guide the team to the correct decisions using the budget made available to me and I genuinely believe we have some of the best infrastructure and systems when compared to our peers and even firms twice our size.