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07-28-2014, 02:24 AM #12
gee, and I though that was just normal. I turn off the cooling fans too at about 3/4 of the build height, so that might also help it a bit. My heatbed has pretty good transference, it seems to be equally hot in all areas of the plate.
The room temperature for me doesn't matter, cold wind from outside sure, but I print when it's 5 degrees C at 5am or I print at 30c.. I don't notice a difference sorry.
I just use the same old pre-printing steps that I awlays do. I preheat my machine to several degrees hotter than I need, so for a 110c bed I preheat to 112, for a 230 nozzle i preheat to 235c. I preheat and let it sit there for about 5-10 mins, or until the preheat script idles out and it returns to cooling down. I then run preheat again, which of course takes only a minute and then let it sit another couple minutes. By now everything it toasty and ready to go.
I also use 1 layer of Kapton tape with 1 layer of 3M blue painters over the top of that. This small bit of insulation I find retains the heat in the bed when it fluctuates from breezes.
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