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Elegoo Saturn - first week
BillTodd:
After months of waiting , my new Elegoo Saturn finally arrived . All nicely packaged and wrapped.
It seems well made, rigid and worth the money*
The first print failed – because I hadn’t level the bed correctly
The second print came out nicely although had a minor and inconsequential warp (which I now know is caused by droop)
The third print , a miniature ‘little dancer’ (Degas) was so good I printed a second copy as large as I could squeeze in to the build volume : she came out just over 250mm tall and near as perfect my imperfect support allowed (droop is a real problem!)
One week playing and I’ve burned through the first kilogram of resin.
The result is :
538g of useable prints - all very nice :-)
at the cost of
1kg Anycubic sensitive basic White
~1l IPA with another 1.5l in tubs and jars , contaminated with resin
1/2 a roll of blue industrial paper wipe
about 1/4- 1/2 box of gloves
1/2 of my two brain cells...
* I paid £415 to Banggood and I’m currently awaiting the bad news from the shipper for handling the HMRC paper work for the Duty and VAT.
Bill
BillTodd:
By the way...
I've decided to make my coil winder project open source* (and 3d printed) , in the hope that someone else will find it useful ;-). It's currently in use winding microphone transformers so it does kinda work.
The software in in my 'stanwegian' flavour of Python and is design to run on a RPi (it was developed in Windows an Linux and can run on those platforms just as well) . Motor control is handled by a couple of PIC 12F1572s.
Let me know if anyone is interested and I'll share some more info.
*if anyone knows the more about publishing open source designs , please let me know.
awemawson:
No I'm not jealous - no really I'M NOT JEALOUS . . . .
. . . .OK I'm jealous - there I've said it !
Very nice :thumbup:
John Rudd:
Jealous with envy...is that superlative? :lol:
Very nice Bill....I like the coil formers... :bow:
I keep thinking of buying a 3d printer...
I need to make some small molding boxes for encapsulating circuit boards ( speed control) for some electric drills I'm refurbing, but cant justify the cost at the moment..
BillTodd:
--- Quote from: awemawson on May 18, 2021, 05:20:07 AM ---No I'm not jealous - no really I'M NOT JEALOUS . . . .
. . . .OK I'm jealous - there I've said it !
Very nice :thumbup:
--- End quote ---
:D
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