The apparent almost uniformity of the temperature of the top and bottom of the box is a nice advantage of the PolyMaker system. Thank you for all your testing and descriptions of how the different systems perform.
Prusa recommends drying Prusament PLA at 45°C (113°F) for 6 hours. You recommend for your PolyLite and PolyMax PLA to dry at 55°C, right on the product pages. So it's odd that your own drying solution, on the PLA setting, seems to be achieving about 38°C. You recommend drying PETG at 65°C and ASA at 70°C, and it seems that these boxes won't achieve those temperatures, even on the highest setting. Can you please explain? Also, it would be great if you'd explain how to read the humidity displayed on the in-built hygrometer. It changes dramatically when the box is being actively heated versus when it is sealed for storage. It also changes with ambient temperature on sealed boxes. Hard to understand. Finally, I wish you guys had put in a combined hygrometer/thermometer instead of the hygrometer-only unit in these boxes. I just bought some combined ones that are the same size and am swapping them in so that I can see the temperature in the box.
I like what I’m seeing. The dryer attaching to the storage box is nice and I don’t actually care what the temp is just as long as it works for me at my house hehe
I just ordered one of these so the funnel file is appreciated, subscribed. The temps seem off; Igor from mytechfun measured higher temps, but he was using an arduino to do it so maybe that had something to do with it. Either way, it's a great form factor and does the job well, so that's good enough for me. I don't need the temp numbers displayed as long as it's doing its job. That bin in the back, can you link it? I'd like something like that for rolls I don't print from often but still want to keep dry. Thanks for the overview and comparison!
Temp readings are subjective based on the location of the sensors. If I place one down in the base unit directly in the airflow, they read a lot higher, up higher in the box, a lot lower.
Initially seemed pricy, but thinking about it now, it seems way better in the long run for this idea vs say a Sunlu S2. If you don't get a Sunlu on sale, then its a no brainer to spend a few more dollars on an expandable system. (I got my S2 for $36, so can't complain there). If I want more I'm going to try polymaker though.
The apparent almost uniformity of the temperature of the top and bottom of the box is a nice advantage of the PolyMaker system. Thank you for all your testing and descriptions of how the different systems perform.
Thank you for confirming it dries Nylon, our users are still skeptical about it so the more people actually test it the better :)
Prusa recommends drying Prusament PLA at 45°C (113°F) for 6 hours. You recommend for your PolyLite and PolyMax PLA to dry at 55°C, right on the product pages. So it's odd that your own drying solution, on the PLA setting, seems to be achieving about 38°C. You recommend drying PETG at 65°C and ASA at 70°C, and it seems that these boxes won't achieve those temperatures, even on the highest setting. Can you please explain?
Also, it would be great if you'd explain how to read the humidity displayed on the in-built hygrometer. It changes dramatically when the box is being actively heated versus when it is sealed for storage. It also changes with ambient temperature on sealed boxes. Hard to understand.
Finally, I wish you guys had put in a combined hygrometer/thermometer instead of the hygrometer-only unit in these boxes. I just bought some combined ones that are the same size and am swapping them in so that I can see the temperature in the box.
I like what I’m seeing. The dryer attaching to the storage box is nice and I don’t actually care what the temp is just as long as it works for me at my house hehe
Great video Scott.Will order mine in June when there back in stock. Will share this on my Facebook group.
I just ordered one of these so the funnel file is appreciated, subscribed.
The temps seem off; Igor from mytechfun measured higher temps, but he was using an arduino to do it so maybe that had something to do with it. Either way, it's a great form factor and does the job well, so that's good enough for me. I don't need the temp numbers displayed as long as it's doing its job.
That bin in the back, can you link it? I'd like something like that for rolls I don't print from often but still want to keep dry.
Thanks for the overview and comparison!
Temp readings are subjective based on the location of the sensors. If I place one down in the base unit directly in the airflow, they read a lot higher, up higher in the box, a lot lower.
Initially seemed pricy, but thinking about it now, it seems way better in the long run for this idea vs say a Sunlu S2. If you don't get a Sunlu on sale, then its a no brainer to spend a few more dollars on an expandable system. (I got my S2 for $36, so can't complain there). If I want more I'm going to try polymaker though.