Super awesome. I converted my Chiron to a Chironwire. ... Good effort on the swap. Maybe a future project. Picked up a cheap Kobra max recently... Maybe I'll do a max big boi lol
I had a look at the Chironwire and it's an interesting mod. The Kobra max would be a great machine to convert, I think I would rotate the bed so it's 400x450 keeping the gantry as short as possible.
I've thought about converting a few printers to "Vorons" but the only things worth saving are maybe the beds. Then it only really makes sense for these huge bed slingers. This one's neat. I think having a "spec" voron or ratrig really only matters to social media clout chasers and their followers.
using the larger beds and heaters does save a load of money on these projects, but it also takes away using the advantages of the flatter thick cast plates, rapid heating and higher temps.
Brilliant. I want to convert my chiron as got it new for really cheap before discontinued. When I've finished printing last few big parts for my r2 you've inspired me to do the chiron convert. First question. How many stepper motors you using. X y and z. I like the 4 lead screws on the z idea.
Thats a chonky boi printer! I never understood how you'd go about making the printer itself bigger and it being understood by the firmware on the board. is it just newer settings you feed in? Was the leviathan board just a beefier driver board for the additional 2 lead screw motors?
It's just values in the firmware and with klipper you can change values in real time, reboot and see if that worked. so very easy to setup a custom size printer. As for the Leviathan it has 2 drivers for high voltage A B motors and then 5 drivers for Z or extruder motors. It was made to work with the Voron 2.4 that has also had 4 Z steppers and that is why I chose it.
It's all new firmware anyway, Chiron ran Marlin, this is Klipper. Klipper is a two-piece firmware, where the planner is running on a PC or a Linux SBC like a Pi and you connect controller boards responsible for sensor readings and stepping, which it can control via processor/board specific firmwares. If you were to stay with Marlin, you get comfortable with development environment (PlatformIO or in a pinch Arduino IDE) and modifying and building firmware from source and flashing it onto your board. Then you go into Configuration h in the source code of the firmware and change your values, and you can change any number of things and behaviours, and you also need this say if you're adding/removing ABL or any of the hardware features. You can build a configuration from scratch, you can start from example ones supplied by Marlin in a separate repository, which cover about 350 different printers. Some other firmwares like RRF (the Duet one) are reconfigured from G-code files that get executed on startup. Klipper also just has a configuration file that you edit.
Hi. You have inspired my. I am doing a corexy conversion. I got a cheap brand new one in the black Friday sale 2022 for ridiculous price and been using to print r2. Nearly finished printing so bought another second hand chiron cheap to make my corexy. Could you send me the stls for your brackets for the bed I.e the voron ones you said you modified to take 10mm bearings? Thanks and if you don't mind I may have more questions as I proceed.
Also. Where did you get the silver brackets from that fit into the 20 20 extrusion at the top that hold in place the top of the 10mm guide rails. Thanks
You may want to consider implementing QBL by Phil1988 rather than mainline QGL - as QBL is more specific to beds and gives you both more control and accurate results.
This is a mighty one.
I am not looking forward to putting it back into that enclosure.
Super awesome. I converted my Chiron to a Chironwire. ... Good effort on the swap. Maybe a future project. Picked up a cheap Kobra max recently... Maybe I'll do a max big boi lol
I had a look at the Chironwire and it's an interesting mod. The Kobra max would be a great machine to convert, I think I would rotate the bed so it's 400x450 keeping the gantry as short as possible.
Very nice
That's a lot of signal whine at the beginning but it seems to calm down while the vase is printing. I am wondering why?
Ive done my frame and im going to print the v2.4 gantry and try to make my extrusions the right size
Hello, is it okay for you to share the .step file?
would love to see a printed parts list for this guy!
Im looking at doing something like this for my kobra max but its feeling a little obtuse
I've thought about converting a few printers to "Vorons" but the only things worth saving are maybe the beds. Then it only really makes sense for these huge bed slingers.
This one's neat. I think having a "spec" voron or ratrig really only matters to social media clout chasers and their followers.
using the larger beds and heaters does save a load of money on these projects, but it also takes away using the advantages of the flatter thick cast plates, rapid heating and higher temps.
If I send you my Chiron would you convert it to this?
Brilliant. I want to convert my chiron as got it new for really cheap before discontinued. When I've finished printing last few big parts for my r2 you've inspired me to do the chiron convert. First question. How many stepper motors you using. X y and z. I like the 4 lead screws on the z idea.
HI, I am using 4 on the Z for the gantry tramming and then 2 on the AB motors.
@@leesmithsworkshop does that need a special brain / motherboard then. And does klipper support that fine
@@bluenose701 it needs enough stepper drivers at least 7 and that is why I used the leviathan board, you could also use a BTT octopus or Kracken.
Thats a chonky boi printer! I never understood how you'd go about making the printer itself bigger and it being understood by the firmware on the board. is it just newer settings you feed in? Was the leviathan board just a beefier driver board for the additional 2 lead screw motors?
It's just values in the firmware and with klipper you can change values in real time, reboot and see if that worked. so very easy to setup a custom size printer. As for the Leviathan it has 2 drivers for high voltage A B motors and then 5 drivers for Z or extruder motors. It was made to work with the Voron 2.4 that has also had 4 Z steppers and that is why I chose it.
It's all new firmware anyway, Chiron ran Marlin, this is Klipper. Klipper is a two-piece firmware, where the planner is running on a PC or a Linux SBC like a Pi and you connect controller boards responsible for sensor readings and stepping, which it can control via processor/board specific firmwares.
If you were to stay with Marlin, you get comfortable with development environment (PlatformIO or in a pinch Arduino IDE) and modifying and building firmware from source and flashing it onto your board. Then you go into Configuration h in the source code of the firmware and change your values, and you can change any number of things and behaviours, and you also need this say if you're adding/removing ABL or any of the hardware features. You can build a configuration from scratch, you can start from example ones supplied by Marlin in a separate repository, which cover about 350 different printers.
Some other firmwares like RRF (the Duet one) are reconfigured from G-code files that get executed on startup. Klipper also just has a configuration file that you edit.
Hi. You have inspired my. I am doing a corexy conversion. I got a cheap brand new one in the black Friday sale 2022 for ridiculous price and been using to print r2. Nearly finished printing so bought another second hand chiron cheap to make my corexy. Could you send me the stls for your brackets for the bed I.e the voron ones you said you modified to take 10mm bearings? Thanks and if you don't mind I may have more questions as I proceed.
Also. Where did you get the silver brackets from that fit into the 20 20 extrusion at the top that hold in place the top of the 10mm guide rails. Thanks
I'd love to be able to do this to my k2max
ciao, complimenti per il tuo progetto :) puoi fare una guida dove specifichi tutto mi piacerebbe copiare il tuo progetto? grazie
wow!
Hi,
did u have a Tutorial how u build this or can u make a Part List ?
For a Small Donation maybe ? :D
Best Regards
what is the name of this hot end you are using?
I am confused as to how it is making those motor sounds as it has silent drivers, it reminds me of my Mendel 90.
I turn off stealthchop because it limits performance.
Kai Ron. :)
Everyone pronounces it a million different ways buts it’s named after the Greek god Apollos son :)
You may want to consider implementing QBL by Phil1988 rather than mainline QGL - as QBL is more specific to beds and gives you both more control and accurate results.
How do I find this ?
Frankenprinter!
I could call it "spectre" one of the Monsters names.