{"id":176,"date":"2012-01-27T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.22balmoralroad.net\/wordpress\/?p=176"},"modified":"2012-01-27T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:20:55","slug":"replacement-electronics-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/replacement-electronics-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement electronics are here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The replacement electronics for my Reprap Huxley arrived today at long last. I&#8217;ve had them plugged in for nearly an hour over dinner, and no flames. Good start!<\/p>\n<p>I think this evening and weekend are going to be devoted to trying to get my printer working. I hope nothing else turns out to be faulty with the kit I bought. I&#8217;m already very disappointed with the quality of it overall. If I had a better understanding of the whole Reprap process, I would have gone with just ordering the plastic parts from somewhere and building my own. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll do a full write up on it at some point.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, I&#8217;ve got the frame built with all the stepper motors mounted and the belts in place. So all(?) I have left to do is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calibrate the electronics<\/li>\n<li>Finish the extruder &#8211; Just needs the motor mounting I think, and the tube inserting.<\/li>\n<li>Finish the hot end &#8211; All gunged up, just needs the electronics attaching to the nichrome wire and thermocouple.<\/li>\n<li>Mount the hot end<\/li>\n<li>Mount the end stops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once all that is done, I may actually be able to start testing. The testing is going to be a long process I think, I very much doubt I&#8217;ll be printing quality objects from the start. Lots and lots of wasted plastic doing test prints, levelling the base, etc. Still, if I can finish this weekend with an actual printed object I&#8217;ll be happy. Roll on 5pm when I finish work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The replacement electronics for my Reprap Huxley arrived today at long last. I&rsquo;ve had them plugged in for nearly an hour over dinner, and no flames. Good start! I think this evening and weekend are going to be devoted to trying to get my printer working. I hope nothing else turns out to be faulty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41],"tags":[61,88,103,147],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-reprap-2","tag-3d-printer","tag-electronics-2","tag-huxley","tag-reprap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}