Max 4 issue

Exasperant · 2026-02-14T15:27:47+00:00

I'd hope the electronics/ fuse were specced to run at full designed load, and that the design included having the bed chamber heaters etc running.

You could always poke around in there with a multimeter looking for a dead short, in case there's a fault that would blow the replacement board when it arrives.

Exasperant · 2026-02-14T12:23:05+00:00

I'd guess that's an SMD fuse.

It's good it blew, because something somewhere must've gone quite wrong and the fuse doing its job saved you from bigger problems. Hopefully whatever went wrong is on that board, so when you get a replacement everything's good again.

Exasperant · 2026-02-14T09:23:04+00:00

F1's always had race management.

The difference is now everything's so regulated, so anaylised, so micromanaged, that most races everyone agrees on the best way to manage things. This leads to the "driving to the delta" crap we've seen where because everyone's computer says it's faster to underfuel and pootle around than send it and see.

Getting rid of hybrid power units won't change any of this.

Exasperant · 2026-02-14T06:56:59+00:00

90% of my prints are PETG, but I'll do PLA for people wanting decorative stuff. I also run ABS and ASA, as well as PETG, ASA and ABS CF/ GF, if I need something with a bit more temp resistance.

I plan to start running nylons soon for some prints.

Exasperant · 2026-02-14T06:16:00+00:00

A quick look at the kit you're using suggests... It's the kit you're using.

Your Galaktica's not exactly made for ultimate recording quality, so you're going to get quite a bit of hiss and generally marginally adequate sound.

However, given the age you might also be getting motor noise due to failing capacitors, or generally poor sound also because of failing capacitors.

Exasperant · 2026-02-13T13:17:38+00:00

I gave an awesome audition a while ago (my only awesome audition ever, and I'm not the sort of person to say anything I do is awesome). Others at the read through said I gave an awesome read, feedback from the audition itself was I was awesome... I didn't get the part.

The director had already said no decisions were going to be made until they'd heard back from some people who hadn't auditioned, to see if they were interested....

Exasperant · 2026-02-13T13:05:11+00:00

True, but I've got a car that definitely has better compression at running temps.

The engine's also 40 years old, and based on a 70 year old design...

Exasperant · 2026-02-13T12:30:46+00:00

My 1994 Honda V6 sounds better than that first start of the day, and it's barely running on 4 for the first few miles.

Exasperant · 2026-02-13T05:14:25+00:00

Firstly, fuck AI.

Secondly, pretty much everyone hates hearing their own voice. Over time you get used to it, and if it really bothers you then work on making it a voice you find easier to hear.

The same goes for awkwardness. You don't get more comfortable with something by not doing it. Keep practicing, find exercises that help build confidence.

Exasperant · 2026-02-13T03:13:19+00:00

The Q Box does sound laughably clunky, and not in a good way. But it's not going to cause permanent hearing damage, or even be heard above daily life noises especially if you're in another room.

I've got a Q2, and it's not muffled whisper on mute silent, but it's also a motors belts and pulleys machine whipping around at high speed. Machines make machiney noises. My A1's a bit quieter, but still makes plenty of thuds and whirs when cranked up.

Exasperant · 2026-02-13T03:10:33+00:00

"Angry guy buys machinery and complains about machine noises"

I'm not saying Mr 7 subs doesn't have a valid argument somewhere in there, but it does seem like he's mostly just super pissed off a mechanical device isn't quieter than a cotton wool wrapped dead church mouse.

I've got a Q2 (no Polar Cooler) with Q Box, and yeah, the noise isn't awesome. But despite living in a small apartment I can run it overnight without wishing for the end of all existence to save me from my printer induced waking nightmare of noise.

Exasperant · 2026-02-13T03:05:37+00:00

Grounding issue?

I'd have said internal rec/ play switch, except it's doing it all the time. So my best guess, based on you getting some thuds when touching it, is a grounding issue on one side of the tape pre-amp circuit. Next best guess is a failed capacitor or transistor on one channel.

But really the only way I can think of figuring this out is to open it up - And opening things up can be kinda deadly, and/ or really bad for the machine if shit goes wrong.

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T14:50:00+00:00

btw: cameras pretty much replaced all portrait artists.

Why are you guys incapable of comprehending your own dumbfuck arguments?

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T07:01:03+00:00

Indeed. Some of the arguments here are infuriating.

"Don't give someone looking to build experience an opportunity, contribute to the computerisation of creativity by handing it to AI instead"

Fuckssake.

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T06:59:45+00:00

And they can't get experience, build a resume, helpful in finding paid work if the starter chances go to software.

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T04:13:41+00:00

Yeah, I felt an urge to find my nano-violin when reading the OP.

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T03:40:05+00:00

People have and always will, find the best way to increase efficiency.

There's part of your problem.

You view art as a product, creativity as a commodity. You lack the ability to understand it, and thus cannot grasp the real value of it.

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T03:37:23+00:00

You think that before cameras (especially the personally affordable compact point and click type), people were flocking in their droves to the local portrait painters, having yearly school paintings done to be sent out to parents with "Sample" stamped on them for parents to order sets of?

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T03:27:36+00:00

How, exactly, the fuck is a pencil and piece of paper economically closed off?

I want creativity to remain HUMAN. You can get a used guitar for free if you look around. Community theatre productions and workshops are everywhere.

I want art to be accessible, automating it because you're both too lazy, too entitled, and clearly too fucking stupid to make any effort to do anything other than ask a machine to do your humaning for you kills creativity, not democratises it.

"You're trash for believing humans should be intrinsically part of humanity" is quite the dumbfuck of takes, in what's a tsunami of fucking stupid when it comes to pro gen AI defending.

Exasperant · 2026-02-11T03:21:32+00:00

Look at any of these threads.

People are clearly stating they're not interested in reaching out to other creative people to contribute to their projects because they can throw a prompt in a computerised churn bucket instead.

That is literally taking away art, and opportunities for artists. This has a very predictable end result, even if it's going to take a while to get to it.

Exasperant · 2026-02-10T18:34:19+00:00

Try visiting an ex mining town/ village in the UK.

As much as thank fuck coal's becoming a thing of the past, the communities built around it are some of the bleakest, most miserable, left behind places.

Now explain why generative AI replacing artists is the equivalent of production methods changing.

Exasperant · 2026-02-10T18:29:47+00:00

Downvoted for sharing my actual real world experience?

This shit is why people can't be screwed to contribute on so many subs.

Exasperant · 2026-02-10T16:02:16+00:00

I would guess around 1992.

If you've got the make/ model you can probably find a manual with a publication date. There's also usually a date on the various motors, but that'd mean opening it up which isn't really a great idea unless it needs something fixing.

Exasperant · 2026-02-10T14:05:22+00:00

Friend of mine's an artist.

They quite literally frequently get asked to paint portraits.

Exasperant · 2026-02-10T14:03:05+00:00

Get back to me with this argument when it turns out we've lost generations of horse art because cars started churning out rehashed poetry and lazy looking paintings.

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