I set my Mendelmax on fire today...
Hint to the wise, do not be printing on one, printer, forget the power switch is live on the Mendelmax... cut wires to fan so you can add two more to keep your POS Printroboard from overheating and immediately have the wire you cut erupt in flames.
Next step is to not run out of the room looking for a fire extinguisher that you wife moved while cleaning the kitchen... that would be the time you would want to ... I don't know turn the power off to the PS?
So while Mendelmax is on fire, I am in the other room looking for a fire extinguisher (power supply still on), the fire alarm goes off. Wife sticks head out of door asking what the hell is going on (Third Shifter).. I say popcorn again.. she goes back to bed.
Get back in office, no fire extinguisher, turn power off. Patt out the burnt wires. After 1 hour of trouble shooting I lost 2 RP parts, pretty much all my wires, and that's about it.... WIN! (ish)
This is the Second RepRap I have ever set on fire :)
What? I don't even...
ReplyDeleteSo this fire was from human intervention... should I get a fire suppression set up for any in attended printing?
What was your first fire?
1st one was a RepRap made out of wax experiment I did a few years back... who would have thought RP parts made out of wax would melt when the steppers got warm?
DeleteThis was because I cut a hot wire, and then turned instantly into a moron. Nothing wrong with the RepRap :)
Neil,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you need one of these wired directly into the circuit you use for your repraps!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Not-Aus_Bet%C3%A4tiger.jpg/220px-Not-Aus_Bet%C3%A4tiger.jpg
Drew
Yea, the printroboard has provision for that.. but considering I am using a switching ps it would not have helped :)
DeleteNo, I meant wire that a 120V switch like the one pictured *DIRECTLY* into your home circuit that you use for the repraps, that would have definitely worked!
DeleteDrew
Yea, I am a moron :) But I have a switch where that button would be... Monkey brain took over and was looking for a club to kill the fire demon.
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