1 May
2014
1 May
'14
1:23 p.m.
this is what i pull up for the part - 6.8 ohm:
http://www.lulzbot.com/products/heat-resistor-68-ohm
sounds like the most common reason for these failing is over temp from miscalibrated
thermistor - i did find those 3 i got for the type a machine and if it's the same part
i'll bring them in.
on May 01, 2014, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
so i spent all evening (and some of last night) to
finally spool up the >gigantic pile of black filament for the TAZ 3D printer.>>i
finally got it hung from the wall with a dust cover over it and ready to >feed smoothly
into the printer, and then i discovered that the heating >element in its extruder head
is dead.>>oh well.>>so, we need a new resistor to go in there. I don't
know what the original >spec is, but since the whole thing runs on 24VDC and assuming
24 watts of >heat, that would be a 24 ohm resistor or so.>>Is someone other than
me interested in contacting Lulzbot and asking >whether they want to send us a new
resistor, or if they can tell us what >part number of resistor we should get as a
replacement?>>-jake>>P.S. yes i tested the resistor and it's dead,
infinite ohms, it's burned >out. When we get a replacement we can glue it in there
better than they >apparently did. If the glue goes bad it dies.>