Good overview, thanks. I’ve been threatening to print some of these but my son’s Ender 3 needs some work to print correctly and our garage is unheated. Last rime he tried to print something out there overnight, it fouled up bad, so thinking of setting up the 3D printer in the laundry room.
Glad you found it helpful. I can't speak entirely for what's going wrong on the printer but I know that cold conditions can be problematic for both the printer and the items being printed. That said, I have had the occasional print go badly and I have been doing this for a long time now.
This is a really neat idea, I'll have to look into this scale ecosystem a little more, it seems deeply interesting. Unfortunately, with 3D printed track being made of plastic, obviously you can't use it for the more standard indoor scales that use track power. I wonder if you could do something with powdered carbon-filled PLA for something like 3 Rail O. I've heard some of those have decent electric conductivity, though I suspect you would still have problems with high resistance
It is a really interesting system, especially for figuring out if an idea is even worth pursuing if you decided to lay the track yourself. In my experience, radio control is not bad for trains as I have dealt with my fair share of track power issues and it's not fun. As for the conductive filament idea, honestly that's great on paper but as I understand the resistance is still too high to make it handy for transmitting power through the rails.
That is looking quite nice!!! I love it when a plan comes together!!!
Thanks! It got my gears going for micro layout ideas too.
Good overview, thanks.
I’ve been threatening to print some of these but my son’s Ender 3 needs some work to print correctly and our garage is unheated.
Last rime he tried to print something out there overnight, it fouled up bad, so thinking of setting up the 3D printer in the laundry room.
Glad you found it helpful. I can't speak entirely for what's going wrong on the printer but I know that cold conditions can be problematic for both the printer and the items being printed. That said, I have had the occasional print go badly and I have been doing this for a long time now.
This is a really neat idea, I'll have to look into this scale ecosystem a little more, it seems deeply interesting.
Unfortunately, with 3D printed track being made of plastic, obviously you can't use it for the more standard indoor scales that use track power.
I wonder if you could do something with powdered carbon-filled PLA for something like 3 Rail O. I've heard some of those have decent electric conductivity, though I suspect you would still have problems with high resistance
It is a really interesting system, especially for figuring out if an idea is even worth pursuing if you decided to lay the track yourself. In my experience, radio control is not bad for trains as I have dealt with my fair share of track power issues and it's not fun. As for the conductive filament idea, honestly that's great on paper but as I understand the resistance is still too high to make it handy for transmitting power through the rails.
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