Hi,
I bought an Artisan and am currently assembling it and have a few questions.
The cable management is even worse than with the snapmaker 2.0, which is disappointing enough on the one hand, but unfortunately there are not even more options due to the many individual cables. I laid the cables 1:1 as in the instructions, but they come out of the cable conduit at different lengths. This is stupid for the management of the control unit. So you pull the axis cables far back into the enclosure so that it fits on the control unit, but then you have chaos inside the enclosure. I don’t understand who planned this… the heating bed cable is simply shorter than the cable conduit through which I am supposed to lay it?
I’ve built a lot of snapmaker together, have several 2.0, but the Artisan is disappointing. I can understand customers packing it and sending it back. For 3000€+ such teething troubles.
So now I’ve somehow fiddled with all the cables so that it doesn’t look too bad in the enclosure and on the control unit, but now I can’t even place the control unit the way I want to. The cables are just too short. I have the Artisan under a table and the cables are not long enough for me to pull them behind the plate to get the control unit on the table.
I would now buy a few more extension cables and extend them to a cable length I need.
The hope is that I can place the control unit where I want.
I seem to be able to extend the cables of the linear motors without any problems, also from the tool head (with the Rotary Extension coord, they all have the same connections). But the housing cable only has 4 pins and the heating bed cable has a completely different geometry. I don’t know how I can simply extend it, do any of you have any experience?
Have any of you ever used a Y adapter from the 2.0? Then I would only need one extension cable for Z and Y.
How did you manage your cables, what are your experiences?