[ML-General] Weird Smell from Wanhao Duplicator i3 Control Box

[Ryan Coons]

Yeah. I'm here.


Cheers,
Ryan Coons


On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 5:09 PM Norm Marshall <normcooks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you at the shop?
>
> Norm Marshall
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 5:08 PM Ryan Coons <ryancoonsyhg at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> So I bought me a BIQU board, but I'm not sure how the signal wire
>> polarity works. There isn't a plus-or-minus label, just dotted wire and
>> more-dotted wire. I read online that there's no signal polarity, but others
>> say that's false. What did you do?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ryan Coons
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Cantrell <madhatter at hackshaq.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have two of the first one that you linked. No fires yet, knock on wood.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:37 PM Ryan Coons <ryancoonsyhg at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do have a recommendation for a MOFSET card? I was told to get either
>>>> this one:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/BIQU-Power-Module-Expansion-Printer/product-reviews/B01HEQVQAK/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_hist_4?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=four_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar
>>>>
>>>> or this one:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HCVJ3K2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_PI.Cyb7TB37GQ
>>>>
>>>> Both have mixed reviews, either working like a champ for all-time, or
>>>> broken out of the box, or catastrophically failing and danger-heating
>>>> within a month. What do?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ryan Coons
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:38 PM David Cantrell <madhatter at hackshaq.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  You would have to double check the burned areas inside of the control
>>>>> box for hints, but from personal experience, 3-D printers burning are
>>>>> usually the heat bed connector on the motherboard over amping, shorting and
>>>>> catching fire. For future reference, you can buy a cheap adapter card on
>>>>> Amazon that has a MOSFET that allows the heat bed to pull power directly
>>>>> from the power supply which prevents the over amp situation.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:12 PM Ryan Coons <ryancoonsyhg at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ahoy!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I was beginning to print part of a friend's birthday gift, my
>>>>>> control box made a non-standard whirring noise and an unpleasant odor. I
>>>>>> haven't identified the root cause, but it's probably electrical and
>>>>>> burning, given the Wanhao's known grounding issues and my experiences with
>>>>>> foul smells. Has anyone encountered this before? If so, what do?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Ryan Coons
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>>>>> Regards. David
>>>>> 256.615.2277
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