Quote Originally Posted by rcleav View Post
I'm going to respectively disagree with you on this one. It depends on the ambient surrounding temp. The temps in my basement where I keep my machines is 60 to 70f year round and have to make sure the temperature in the printer is at least 70f before starting a print. Any lower and I run into bed adhesion problems. So I always keep the door closed and the top on. The Qidi can get into the mid 80's the CTC only gets to the upper 70's.
rcleav, Just curious, what are you using to monitor the ambient temperature inside your Qidi? I'm thinking of adding a temperature probe. Eventually I will probably add a Raspberry Pi with a camera on the bed, when I do that I'll hook a temperature probe up to it. Until I get that far I was thinking of going cheap and dirty by just putting one of these in the corner of the chamber.
http://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-00613A...ture+indicator

I also have mine in the basement. My wife has been complaining about the smell, she says it is making the whole basement smell like a skunk. I've switched over to printing ABS on a glass plate with the Aquanet hairspray. (Highly recommend it, plastic sticks great when hot and the parts almost fall off when the glass cools) I'm not sure if the skunk smell is from the ABS or the hairspray. Our ABS printers at work don't smell as bad as this so maybe it is the hairspray... or maybe Stratysis puts a filter on the exhaust port. My solution to the smell is going to be putting it in a closet with a bathroom fan that exhausts to the back of the house. Crazy thing is I already have a closet with a bathroom fan installed, just need to work out the shelving. Used to be where I had a salt water fish tank, used the bathroom fan to get some of the moisture out of the house.