[sudo-discuss] lulzbot TAZ 3d printer is dead

[Hol Gaskill]

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 at 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.>