#PRUSA MINI E3D REVO INSTALL#

With a conventional hotend I’m very reluctant to change nozzle because of the hassle and often don’t take proper advantage of this key 3D printing technique – with Revo it’s much easier. Big bulky prints can be printed much faster with a big nozzle and prints with fine detail can look excellent with a small nozzle. I didn’t PID tune my hotend and have had no issues.Ĭhanging nozzles has benefits. Once installed there is a little calibration to do on the printer and you’re good to go.

#PRUSA MINI E3D REVO INSTALL#

Otherwise, the install is quick and easy.

I think the Prusa Mini will be one of Revo Micro’s biggest customers, so a little more thought into how those cables are tidied up would be be a nice touch. It still isn’t pretty and over doubled my install time while trying to get the cables to be as neat as possible. They are simply too bulky to fit neatly within the Mini’s existing cable trunking and it took a little bit of head-scratching to make it all fit inside. However, the cable joint where the extension plugs into the short cables are very difficult to manage. The Revo’s cabling is very short and E3D provide extension cables to ensure that you can reach your printer’s mainboard the cables are lengthy enough and there’s plenty of slack. The install of the hotend itself took around 20 minutes, but when it came to tidying the install up and making the cables neat and tidy, I hit my first issue. They quote an install time of 1 hour and 15 minutes, which we first felt was very generous, until one of the final steps. Due to this, we had the perfect excuse to pick up a new Revo hotend!Į3D’s guide is great and clearly outlines the process of swapping out the stock hotend for Revo from start to finish – no complaints there. The Bondtech extruder is a common fix for the extrusion issues on the early Minis, but it didn’t do it for us. It was one of the very first Mini’s to be sold by Prusa, and we purchased it from its previous owner after a bit of a rough start with bed levelling and extrusion. We fitted a Revo Micro to a poorly Prusa Mini. No heat and no wrenching.Į3D provide a handy guide on installing Revo. Simply unscrew the cold nozzle and screw a new one in finger tight. Revo is different no longer is the nozzle a separate part of the hotend. I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been burned when changing a nozzle before. Not only do you have to ensure that the new nozzle is nice and tight (and risk stripping the soft aluminium threads), but you also have to do it whilst the hotend is hot to ensure a good seal. What’s the most common reason to reassemble a hotend? To change nozzle, of course.Ĭhanging nozzle on a conventional hotend is tedious. A working printer will rarely end up with a random leak – they usually occur after the hotend is disassembled and reassembled. Not only does a monstrous plastic blob grow around your hotend from the leak, but clogs and under extrusion will probably manifest themselves too. If there are gaps that the molten filament can squeeze through other than the nozzle, problems can arise. A crucial part of this is that there are no leaks. Plastic filament is pushed through the hotend and the hotend’s job is to melt it so that it can flow out of the printer nozzle.

If you’re familiar with FDM 3D printing, you’ll know your printer has a hotend. As a part of our new partnership with E3D we’ve been lucky to get our hands on a unit to review and take it for a spin ourselves. It’s currently flying off the shelves and appears to be a hit with the big reviewers, but there are a few niggles. This kit comes with 100mm of PTFE tube.There’s little doubt that E3D is a world-leading extrusion system manufacturer, and the new Revo Rapid Change hotend looks to further that reputation. The Revo Micro fan must be connected using the 5V regulator unless connecting directly to a 5V pin This kit does not include any 3D printed mounts Revo Micro plays nice with Bowden and direct drive setups, but its lightweight construction makes it an ideal choice for Bowden setups. With an anodised black heatsink, not only does Revo Micro run cool – it looks cool, too.įlexible to any setup. It’s much safer too – unlike other solutions on the market, a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) means the Revo HeaterCore can not melt at extreme temperatures: power reduces as it gets hotter, so hazards are reduced in the event of a thermal runaway. Revo Nozzles are a factory sealed nozzle and heatbreak in one, so they’re easy to fit and can’t leak material when in use. Change nozzles at room temperature using just your fingers.

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