Yeah i decided a while ago that on my XL i'm gonna add a 2000VA tripplite. Bigger prints are worth it. I don't really mind a 1kg failure on a mk3, but more than that is a huge time investment. I've had bad experience with APC, and furmans are pricey, so I settled on tripplite.
ive seen people save prints like that by using calipers to measure the height from a feature and dividing by layer height to get the layer number they failed at. if the print stopped in the middle of a layer though you'll have to take an exacto knife and remove the partial layer first. It's possible to save it but it depends on how much time you have and what it's worth to you haha
I bought 2 @ APC 600VA UPS units for my routers. They are 330 watts. When I tried one with my 3D Printers it worked ok. But that is only when I plug 1 printer into it. When I plug 2 printers into it the UPS starts beeping pulling power from the battery even though its still plugged into the wall with power. I probably need a better one to run two printers at once through it.
Hey there just what I was looking for! I am curious though, have you tested the X1C this way also? I have 2 and I have both running through a Bluetti in UPS mode and it was not fast enough for hte Printers but all the computers were fine. I am contemplating a UPS like this in the middle. yours looked fast enough for the big printer.
@@LoyalMoses So I made the purchase and it works perfectly, turns out my Bluetti is not fast enough for the 3d printers but is fine for the computers, but now I am buffering everything through the UPS that is critical. with the 1500Watts and the 2400 Watts of the Bluetti, the big battery just needs a second to catch up then its power for hours. and as a last ditch, the CyberPower has about 30 minutes with the load I have for it.
maybe a silly solution but if you got a 3D pen you can just put it on yourself , you can hide the seam wiht the pen and and if you then sand it a bit no one will notice it will stay a weak point and can mess up a lot more if done wrong ,but it is worht it to save your print last option is to just glue it on it , then use a solder and "smooth" out the edge so it looks like a solid line also works nice, same trick as with the 3D pen only with a solder iron instead
Those aren’t silly ideas! If I had some practice with a 3D pen, I’d try it! I thought about just gluing it on, then wrapping it with a cover strip or ribbon.
Battery backups are such a good tool to have, especially when big projects need protecting. I hadn’t even thought about that. Definitely interested in learning more about the ranch being totally off grid and run on solar and generator. Btw Big Bunny Trooper is gonna look awesome.
@@LoyalMoses I was curious how often you had power issues. That is one thing we are considering and researching for our rebuild of the farm. And adding battery backups to printers and smaller things. Our last power failure being on grid I lost a 48 hour print and yeah. Was not a happy camper. Lol.
Why print both parts separately? I just figure the Z height where the print stopped and I update the gcode to start at that position, if you remove the piece from the bed it's game over I had to do this a couple of times and never had problems
@loyalmoses some low voltage circuit breakers are heat sensitive let’s say you have 4x 200a breakers and it’s a very hot day they won’t trip at there intended trip rating they would trip early and another reason if your battery’s are low your inverters will want to draw more current because the voltage is low your inverters want a higher voltage to have consistent current draw for the out put of your inverters with out having your battery be too low which will increase the current draw there for putting stress on the inverter for having a lower voltage and higher current draw to make up the difference for the power output of the inverter to serve your house For example 2000w draw from the output of the inverter divided by your voltage 12v battery or whatever it is let’s say 13.8v would want to draw 144.9 amps and if it’s a 12v battery bank and there at 12v which would be flat 2000w divided by 12v “flat”would draw 166.6amps that’s about 22 amps in difference hopefully my math is correct lol
It can probably be salvaged. You need a perfectly flat surface and a large piece of wet-dry sandpaper (the size of the seem layer). Place the sandpaper on the perfectly flat surface, then very lightly sand down each half until they are perfectly flat. This should give you 2 perfectly flat surfaces to GLOOP!!!! Shame on you for not using UPSes. Every single electronic device that I have that plugs into the wall, is on a UPS. Kitchen devices excepted. ;)
Oh! That is a GREAT idea. I wonder if I can grab a large sheet of sandpaper in the valley today?! That could work! And YES, shame on me, I accept that!
@@LoyalMoses Sorry for askin. I was under the impression that100% off grid means you produce power for your use. I guess I don't understand what that means. I thought people go "off grid" to get away from relying on power companies for their power. Just disregard my question.
Oh! I make my own power, but your own systems can fail too. For some reason the auto system on the generator didn’t fire it up, and the battery system switched off to protect itself from damage.
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MOAR POWER! Never enough Gigawats are there Loyal? 😁 ⚡️
Oh my gosh! I had this gut feeling the whole time. When it happened, I was almost like “yup, there it is. Knew this was coming.” - ugh
Loyal, you are a classical style storyteller.your best videos come from when you tell a story. You did a really good job with this one.
Thank you Lup! That is super kind of you. I really enjoyed making this one, even on that same 2 hours of sleep. I was exhausted!
It was just ironic that I was talking to Nic in another tab. So glad this worked out and he had more filament.
I turns out like a half dozen or more people were messaging him at the same time! 😆 What an incredible sponsor! 💜
Polymaker and Nic are just amazing! They are true pillars of the 3D Printing community!!!
Another great video too!
Yes they are!
Polymaker is awesome for finding the 7 spools of filament. Hopefully no more problems arise and this amazing project gets finished
Just incredible! 💜💜💜
What a great idea. Fortunately we very rarely have power issues here!! (I’ve just jinxed it 😂)
Uh oh! You are about to have power problems! LOL
Yeah i decided a while ago that on my XL i'm gonna add a 2000VA tripplite. Bigger prints are worth it. I don't really mind a 1kg failure on a mk3, but more than that is a huge time investment. I've had bad experience with APC, and furmans are pricey, so I settled on tripplite.
I’ve had bad experiences with them too, relays are always fusing together. I’m glad you all pushed me to grab one!
ive seen people save prints like that by using calipers to measure the height from a feature and dividing by layer height to get the layer number they failed at. if the print stopped in the middle of a layer though you'll have to take an exacto knife and remove the partial layer first. It's possible to save it but it depends on how much time you have and what it's worth to you haha
Interesting! I used the slicer and counted the rows, so I have the mm layer height right, but an exacto knife might work out well! 🔥🔥🔥
Cant wait to see the reprinted helmet :) sad that it had that failure, but glad you got a backup just in case
Thanks! I can’t wait to share it! I hope it is EPIC!
Did you remember to adjust the back up idler wheel before you started the print?
OH MY GOSH! I stopped it, started it again after your message! I had completely forgot. Re-tightened the wheel, leveled again, and it’s going! 💜
@@LoyalMoses cool glad that got fixed so that hopefully there won't be any weird artifacts on it later
I bought 2 @ APC 600VA UPS units for my routers. They are 330 watts. When I tried one with my 3D Printers it worked ok. But that is only when I plug 1 printer into it. When I plug 2 printers into it the UPS starts beeping pulling power from the battery even though its still plugged into the wall with power. I probably need a better one to run two printers at once through it.
Ah, at least you can switch it between machines for the important prints! The prices have really come down on them too.
Good Idea about the UPS
Definitely! Would have saved us a lot of time and money! 💜
im new to 3d printing but what would i do is probably use a 3d pen to cover the gaps using the same filament for that and maybe sand it idk
That’s a great idea! You know, I still need to get a 3D pen!!
This happen to me earlier today on my ender 3 v3 se. Pop the breaker back on and it asked to resume print I was so relieved
Yup, I need to always run them with UPSs
Hey there just what I was looking for! I am curious though, have you tested the X1C this way also? I have 2 and I have both running through a Bluetti in UPS mode and it was not fast enough for hte Printers but all the computers were fine. I am contemplating a UPS like this in the middle. yours looked fast enough for the big printer.
Yes, I’ve run this same UPS on several Bambu machines.
@@LoyalMoses So I made the purchase and it works perfectly, turns out my Bluetti is not fast enough for the 3d printers but is fine for the computers, but now I am buffering everything through the UPS that is critical. with the 1500Watts and the 2400 Watts of the Bluetti, the big battery just needs a second to catch up then its power for hours. and as a last ditch, the CyberPower has about 30 minutes with the load I have for it.
maybe a silly solution
but if you got a 3D pen you can just put it on yourself , you can hide the seam wiht the pen and and if you then sand it a bit no one will notice
it will stay a weak point and can mess up a lot more if done wrong ,but it is worht it to save your print
last option is to just glue it on it , then use a solder and "smooth" out the edge so it looks like a solid line
also works nice, same trick as with the 3D pen only with a solder iron instead
Those aren’t silly ideas! If I had some practice with a 3D pen, I’d try it! I thought about just gluing it on, then wrapping it with a cover strip or ribbon.
The X1C actually draws ~950w when the build plate and extruder are heated simultaneously. It’s only on startup though 🤷🏼♂️
Cool!
Battery backups are such a good tool to have, especially when big projects need protecting. I hadn’t even thought about that. Definitely interested in learning more about the ranch being totally off grid and run on solar and generator. Btw Big Bunny Trooper is gonna look awesome.
Oh absolutely! We rarely have power failure, so I didn’t really want to have to put printers on them. That was a mistake! 🤦♂️
@@LoyalMoses I was curious how often you had power issues. That is one thing we are considering and researching for our rebuild of the farm. And adding battery backups to printers and smaller things. Our last power failure being on grid I lost a 48 hour print and yeah. Was not a happy camper. Lol.
Why print both parts separately? I just figure the Z height where the print stopped and I update the gcode to start at that position, if you remove the piece from the bed it's game over
I had to do this a couple of times and never had problems
It’d never look perfect, so wasn’t gonna waste the time. That’s a good trick if you are going to post process it.
Essential equipment, you just never know...🧐
Absolutely!!!
@@LoyalMoses I had mine for around 4yrs before it kicked in 😉 I had forgotten about it and wondered what all the beeping was about 😂
@@Afro3dprinter haha! That’s a good problem to have! 😆
which UPS should I get for a bambu lab p1s running on 120V ? please help
Picked one up after my voron got fried from a power hick up
Oh no! You lost a machine from that?? Yikes. I get nervous as heck when lightning is striking the fields around us.
@loyalmoses some low voltage circuit breakers are heat sensitive let’s say you have 4x 200a breakers and it’s a very hot day they won’t trip at there intended trip rating they would trip early and another reason if your battery’s are low your inverters will want to draw more current because the voltage is low your inverters want a higher voltage to have consistent current draw for the out put of your inverters with out having your battery be too low which will increase the current draw there for putting stress on the inverter for having a lower voltage and higher current draw to make up the difference for the power output of the inverter to serve your house
For example 2000w draw from the output of the inverter divided by your voltage 12v battery or whatever it is let’s say 13.8v would want to draw 144.9 amps and if it’s a 12v battery bank and there at 12v which would be flat 2000w divided by 12v “flat”would draw 166.6amps that’s about 22 amps in difference hopefully my math is correct lol
Thanks Ricky! It’s definitely related to heat and load. It’s all software controlled and I manage all the settings!
@@LoyalMoses what you using is it victron energy or is it something else
Loyal, don't you know a watched pot never boils?🤣🤣🤣
Haha
It can probably be salvaged. You need a perfectly flat surface and a large piece of wet-dry sandpaper (the size of the seem layer). Place the sandpaper on the perfectly flat surface, then very lightly sand down each half until they are perfectly flat. This should give you 2 perfectly flat surfaces to GLOOP!!!!
Shame on you for not using UPSes. Every single electronic device that I have that plugs into the wall, is on a UPS. Kitchen devices excepted. ;)
Oh! That is a GREAT idea. I wonder if I can grab a large sheet of sandpaper in the valley today?! That could work! And YES, shame on me, I accept that!
I am curious how many of us messaged Nick the second we heardthe story.
Mrs LM has been thanking everyone! Thank you Span! Amazing of you! 💜
@@LoyalMoses Glad it worked out. Excited to see how the final project looks.
How did you have a power failure if you are 100% off grid?
I can’t tell if you are being serious!
@@LoyalMoses Sorry for askin. I was under the impression that100% off grid means you produce power for your use. I guess I don't understand what that means. I thought people go "off grid" to get away from relying on power companies for their power. Just disregard my question.
Oh! I make my own power, but your own systems can fail too. For some reason the auto system on the generator didn’t fire it up, and the battery system switched off to protect itself from damage.
Lots of Gloop...
Buckets of it!
As a PC gamer/enthusiast, not having a UPS for your tech is a cardinal sin. You don't want your 1K+ PC, monitor, 3D printer to go bust, do you?
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