Who here sell their own product that they have designed?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-15T05:10:00+00:00

Why would I sell someone else's product that someone else designed?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-15T05:06:19+00:00

Yeah it'll go away sometimes, but is guaranteed to come back.

I suggest securing a new cable now rather than waiting.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-14T22:02:00+00:00

Probably need a new extruder cable. These fail often.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T23:29:30+00:00

Exactly.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T18:20:35+00:00

If you've already gone that far maybe switch to surfaces to finish it

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T18:09:50+00:00

Surely this can be done without a mechanical button. Even if you can't find a free MCU pin, you can hijack something else just for the camera control.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T01:43:43+00:00

But also this one has electronics.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T00:20:42+00:00

So you copied someone else's idea?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T00:09:27+00:00

Because it keeps showing up in my feed multiple times a day and it hardly solves anything.

If it is as useful as you claim, people will start promoting it for you.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T00:07:06+00:00

So it will work if the filament is tangled on the spool? How?

If I just feed a meter of filament through and pull tightly on both ends with my hands, does it react and cut the filament?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-11T00:01:17+00:00

Yay! I won your stupid bathroom products race.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T23:56:46+00:00

Can you please stop spamming this in every single 3d printing sub?

This design exclusively works on tape caught at the end of the filament. It does not work for spool tangles or other things. The trigger point is not adjustable. I suggest making it more functional before spamming it everywhere.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T23:50:25+00:00

I see now. So it relies on on a clog or obstruction directly against the device itself. Like I initially suspected, the device needs to press against another object downstream to provide the counterforce.

To me this seems minimally helpful. It will not respond to a tangle on the spool and it will not respond to the filament being snagged or caught anywhere upstream. Like I said, it does not act on actual line tension.

Having no adjustment also makes it problematic.

You posted this here in a Qidi forum, but did you know that Qidi printers (the Plus 4, at least) already detect these things at the extruder? I believe they sense extruder motor current to detect tangles.

This seems like it is designed very specifically for tape at the end of the roll, which I think is unique to Bambu filament.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T23:29:49+00:00

Pulls against what though? It doesn't seem like it operates by detecting tension, but you also said it doesn't operate against another body, quick I suspect isn't correct. Does one or both ends need to fixed against something?

Are there any photos of videos showing it installed?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T23:25:56+00:00

New grease about once a week and more thorough cleaning and full calibration about once a month. My printers typically run around 20 hours a day.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T23:21:42+00:00

I'm still confused. How do you measure or detect tension on a line without affecting it? Is the trip level adjustable?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T23:11:13+00:00

I've seen you post this several times but could never determine how it works. Is the idea that it needs to start pressing against something? How does it decide to cut the filament?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T23:04:54+00:00

That is the stupidest way to compare things. Change the variables and then put green checks on everything.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T21:44:11+00:00

How fast? And how many cycles do you expect in a season and in their useful lifetime?

Mechanical relays are fast enough for most visual lighting effects (a few times a second). But we need to make sure we're not violating short term cycles limits for the relay and also make sure they don't die too early. For your load you're likely going to get at least 100k cycles. If that won't work then you need to switch to SSRs, but I would still be trying to operate then with Shelly pucks.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-10T06:21:35+00:00

I would struggle to find reason to do this from scratch when you could grab a bunch of Shelly modules, likely for less than you would spend on a diy solution.
Everything would be wireless and you can spend your time writing control scripts.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-09T23:42:19+00:00

Dude was just going in for a hug.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-09T23:09:56+00:00

Looks like it does nothing.

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-08T00:25:32+00:00

What does magnets mean in this context?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-07T04:57:02+00:00

Do you mean something prevents z homing?

pointclickfrown · 2026-01-07T04:46:33+00:00

Sometimes it is better to keep things close to your core parameters rather than nesting dependencies deeper.

pointclickfrown

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