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Questions tagged [cooling]

Questions about cooling 3D printers or 3D printed parts.

For questions regarding troubleshooting, design, and best-practices of cooling either 3D printer mechanisms or 3D printed parts.

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Mushy small top layers?

I just added a fan to my printer because very small layers seem to come out very badly. For example, the 5mm PLA cube that's the top level of the test shape shown below. Watching closely, I can see that the newly-extruded fiber is pushing the…
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Should I enclose my 3D Printer?

I have a home built RepRap with all sides open.. Would there be any advantage to enclosing the print area in acrylic?
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Understand what CR-10S fans are cooling

I am designing a fan mount for the CR-10S printer to hold the E3D All-metal v6 HotEnd and BLTouch sensor. The CR-10S printer has two fans. One on the front: and another one on the right: I need to know what the two fans are actually cooling in…
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Cooling for big layers

There is an option in Slic3r to disable cooling for layers that take more than n seconds. What would be the disadvantages of having cooling on big layers ?
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Sanguinololu 1.3a fan connection

Can anyone tell me where to connect a cooling fan on the Sanguinololu v1.3a board? A few of the information pages mention three PWM outputs: Extruder, bed heater and fan, but none of the wiring diagrams that I can find, actually show the…
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My print is warping: how can I ensure that it cools evenly?

My print is warping and I suspect it is because of uneven cooling. How can ensure my print cools evenly? Should I put a fan on the bed? Will no fan and a tall skirt help? Or are my edges curling up for another reason?
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Why does my part-cooling fan cause stringing?

Really strange observation with my MP Select Mini V2 printing PLA. I've printed a dual-fan shroud so I can have a dedicated part-cooling fan. I've noticed that when I turn it on, the extruder starts stringing everywhere. Little tiny spider-web…
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Upgrading to silicone heat bed, will it burn my house down?

I'm looking into upgrading my heated bed and replacing it with a silicone bed. I know nearly nothing about electronics, so I would like someone more knowledgeable to confirm if what I have theorized is correct or I'm going to burn my house down…
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Cooling fan noise when head is moving in the X axis

I have this fan model, it is a SUNON model number MF50151VX-B00U-A99 and it is a blower type. When the head is moving in the X-axis it makes noise. I think this type of fans is not suitable for rapid movement and rapid changes in directions. I…
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Proper way to power down a FDM printer

I just got my first 3D printer today, QIDI X-ONE[2], and so far so good with the setup and getting my 1st print. I wanted to power off the printer, but I don't see any instructions on how to properly power off the machine. Does anyone know how long…
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Does the material a bed is made out of affect the cooling time of a part?

Let's say I print a part out of ABS and wait for it to cool. I could theoretically do this with several copies of the same printer, modified to use print beds of different compositions. Will the material a bed is made out of affect how long it takes…
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How can I avoid jamming in the feeder?

Recently, at work we bought a Guider II printer from FlashForge. When we try to print models using a high resolution or models with a too high printing time, the feeder gets clogged. And the feeder is too hot. We have concluded that the feeder is…
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Should I be doing PID auto-tuning with my fan at 100% (Anet A8)

I'm using an Anet A8 with Marlin 1.1.6. I've read countless guides on PID auto-tuning and never saw that the fan needed to be on, but when I look at the Marlin source code's ANet A8 configuration (here:…
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Part cooling fan on when printing TPU?

I could have sworn I read somewhere that when printing with TPU to make sure the part cooling fan is blowing. But I just did a quick Googling and couldn't find anything stating such on Matter Hackers or All3dp. I currently don't have a part cooling…
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Which filament to use for an application involving water circulation?

Let's suppose I want to build a water block shaped exactly for my Ubis 13s hot end (similar to this instructable), or that I want to circulate water around specific objects to be cooled (like Water-cooling stepper motor with aluminum block). CNC…
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