I have a question regarding fire hazard on these machines in general. What are the chances of it catching fire while 3D printing? I don’t own a house yet and have dozens of appartements in my building. My machine lives in the basement and I have no easy access for monitoring. I feel bad leaving the machine unattended without any sort of fire alerting system. Not only my life depends on it…
No way to get wifi linked, so I’m thinking of buying a GSM/4G smoke detector for the enclosure. Hard to find and expansive. If you have a solution or a gsm detector in mind thank you in advance!
There are safety features implemented, which means for example if the thermistor breaks the machine will stop heating (runaway error).
On the other side, every consumer electronic like a TV could get or make a electrical short because of bad electronics or age.
Normally you should not leave a machine running, this stands in the manual, I guess.
I run cnc and laser if I am at home and let prints print.
Several posters on the forum had issues with nozzle temperature consistency. Since you’re concerned about a fire hazard, make sure you’ve applied some thermal paste to the thermistor. That addresses a known issue where the nozzle can overheat.
It’s quite simple. Put a bit in the hole. Put the termistor back in. You should be using electrically nonconductive thermal paste, so it doesn’t matter if it gets on the wires.
