Heated Bed Sourcing
Hi All, I'm interested in adding a heated bed to my Prusa Mendel but I do not own a soldering iron (I live at college, too many smoke alarms). I've seen a few heated beds on ebay for sale but they...
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Quote(I live at college, too many smoke alarms) And your college doesn't have an electronics laboratory? In addition I have never set off a smoke detector while using my soldering iron.
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Haha that's good to hear. Yes they do, but I'm studying Biomedicine rather than Engineering so I can't get access to it. I could, however, ask one of my engineering friends to do the soldering for me....
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I am using a 220vac silicon heating pad, in fact it is the Heated WolfBed. And I assume you are talking about one of the 12vdc pcb heated beds. I used screw terminals for my connections (except for...
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The helios print bed from www.panucatt.com has screw-on power connections. The thermistor requires a bit of light soldering, but there is no need for the heavier soldering needed for the power...
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Light or heavy soldering... He'll still require a soldering iron ;)
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What is the best way to wire up the thermistor wire to the bed and give strain relief from the bed moving ? Also any sugggestion on the type of wire that works best for this ? Thanks
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You could buy an Ormerod 2 heat bed from RepRapPro. It has screw terminals. Likewise, the bed thermistor for the Ormerod does not require soldering, it uses a crimp connector.
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On ebay you can post questions to the seller to clarify if it needs soldering. On the heated beds that I got the thermistor wires were already soldered. I just had to cement the sensor into the hole...
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