Awesome results with E3d Hot end.
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Eaglezsoar
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Re: Awesome results with E3d Hot end.
The settings that were posted, are they from Slic3r?
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Re: Awesome results with E3d Hot end.
Eaglezsoar wrote:The settings that were posted, are they from Slic3r?
No, they're from KISSlicer
Re: Awesome results with E3d Hot end.
Hi All,
Just a quick one as we are working way into the night shipping stuff.
To everyone that has a pending order with us:
Everything is shipping!
All orders made before June 11th have shipped. Everything else is shipping over the weekend, possibly Monday for some of the very recent orders.
Everyone is receiving the most up-to date hotend, which is effectively the v5 now. Many performance and ease of use tweaks have been done, but the fundamentals such as mounting dimensions, overall length etc (the things that matter for making it fit your machine) have remained identical. You will just be receiving a hotend that is lighter in weight, and has a somewhat improved thermal performance.
We hope to move to a permanent state of "shipping within 1-2 days of purchase" by the end of the week.
Concerning water cooled and multi-nozzle hotends
Because there seems to be a bit of speculation/confusion surrounding this I am going to let the cat out of the bag.
We have on the way a small prototype run of a 4 nozzled, water cooled, bowden fed hotends.
We are calling this new hotend "Kraken" - A multi tentacled water borne monster!
The total footprint of the hotend is only 30*40mm in XY plane, the Z height from top to tip is under 40mm, and the 4 nozzles are arranged in a rectangle only 20mm*18mm apart. The weight without electronics looks to be around 110 grams, which is barely the weight of 2x E3Dv5 hotends. Each nozzle to have separate temperature control. Each nozzle can be individually levelled and adjusted in height to be planar with the bed in a very easy and quick way.
The small size and weight despite 4 nozzles is due mainly to the high efficiency of water cooling, even with only a tiny amount of water flow and a small cooling channel we still have a massive excess of cooling capacity. The second reason is a new way of mounting/gripping bowden tubes which has all the convenience and grip of pneumatic push-fit couplers, but with significantly less bulk and weight.
We intend to keep the price reasonable, and below the price for buying the equivalent number of E3Dv5.
But to be clear - Kraken is not a replacement for the normal v5 hotend, which will remain our main product that suits most users. The Kraken is designed purely for multi-nozzle bowden feed applications. Futhermore it is not finished! We will be shipping the majority of our beta prototyping run to trusted testers. I expect problems to occur and tweaks to be necessary. I will start a separate thread once things are ready, and the final version of Kraken will be developed in a public/interactive manner so the community can input what it wants/needs so that we can give you guys what you want.
Kraken will be open-source when sold publicly.
Cheers,
Sanjay
Just a quick one as we are working way into the night shipping stuff.
To everyone that has a pending order with us:
Everything is shipping!
All orders made before June 11th have shipped. Everything else is shipping over the weekend, possibly Monday for some of the very recent orders.
Everyone is receiving the most up-to date hotend, which is effectively the v5 now. Many performance and ease of use tweaks have been done, but the fundamentals such as mounting dimensions, overall length etc (the things that matter for making it fit your machine) have remained identical. You will just be receiving a hotend that is lighter in weight, and has a somewhat improved thermal performance.
We hope to move to a permanent state of "shipping within 1-2 days of purchase" by the end of the week.
Concerning water cooled and multi-nozzle hotends
Because there seems to be a bit of speculation/confusion surrounding this I am going to let the cat out of the bag.
We have on the way a small prototype run of a 4 nozzled, water cooled, bowden fed hotends.
We are calling this new hotend "Kraken" - A multi tentacled water borne monster!
The total footprint of the hotend is only 30*40mm in XY plane, the Z height from top to tip is under 40mm, and the 4 nozzles are arranged in a rectangle only 20mm*18mm apart. The weight without electronics looks to be around 110 grams, which is barely the weight of 2x E3Dv5 hotends. Each nozzle to have separate temperature control. Each nozzle can be individually levelled and adjusted in height to be planar with the bed in a very easy and quick way.
The small size and weight despite 4 nozzles is due mainly to the high efficiency of water cooling, even with only a tiny amount of water flow and a small cooling channel we still have a massive excess of cooling capacity. The second reason is a new way of mounting/gripping bowden tubes which has all the convenience and grip of pneumatic push-fit couplers, but with significantly less bulk and weight.
We intend to keep the price reasonable, and below the price for buying the equivalent number of E3Dv5.
But to be clear - Kraken is not a replacement for the normal v5 hotend, which will remain our main product that suits most users. The Kraken is designed purely for multi-nozzle bowden feed applications. Futhermore it is not finished! We will be shipping the majority of our beta prototyping run to trusted testers. I expect problems to occur and tweaks to be necessary. I will start a separate thread once things are ready, and the final version of Kraken will be developed in a public/interactive manner so the community can input what it wants/needs so that we can give you guys what you want.
Kraken will be open-source when sold publicly.
Cheers,
Sanjay
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daftscience
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Re: Awesome results with E3d Hot end.
Wow. That sounds amazing! I had seen a mention of a water-cooled hotend. Too late to get in on the beta testing?!
Re: Awesome results with E3d Hot end.
Nope not too late!
I think what we are going to do is ask for volunteers on the RepRap forums. Those that can prove they are ready to use a Kraken beta unit with photos of multiple ready to run extruders, electronics, mounting solution etc will be sent a free unit for evaluation on the understanding that they feedback their experiences/opinions on the forums. Once we have sent units to our trusted testers the remaining ones will probably be dished out to those who demonstrate the most ability to make use of, and provide feedback on a multi-nozzle setup.
Having learned from the release of the E3Dv4 I think it is vital to have some community input in the development stages so that we can get the hotend to be exactly what the users want. As soon as I am happy with the whole shebang and have a finalised design we will take pre-orders and start manufacture.
I'll do my best to drop in here and let you guys know as things develop. Bowden fed delta machines are really our target market with this product.
Sanjay
I think what we are going to do is ask for volunteers on the RepRap forums. Those that can prove they are ready to use a Kraken beta unit with photos of multiple ready to run extruders, electronics, mounting solution etc will be sent a free unit for evaluation on the understanding that they feedback their experiences/opinions on the forums. Once we have sent units to our trusted testers the remaining ones will probably be dished out to those who demonstrate the most ability to make use of, and provide feedback on a multi-nozzle setup.
Having learned from the release of the E3Dv4 I think it is vital to have some community input in the development stages so that we can get the hotend to be exactly what the users want. As soon as I am happy with the whole shebang and have a finalised design we will take pre-orders and start manufacture.
I'll do my best to drop in here and let you guys know as things develop. Bowden fed delta machines are really our target market with this product.
Sanjay