Once a heavily modified Voron, now an ALPHA...
What makes this printer different from a VORON?
- Bigger Extruder Gears (from Bondtech LGX) for more grip...
- The door now opens a full 270 degrees to make working on the printer easier...
- Voron 2's Z-Gantry has been swapped with Voron 1.8's to provide more stability in the Z axis...
- Vorons inductive probe is too unreliable when the chamber heats up. This was exchanged for a ClickyProbe, which is completely insensitive to temperature fluctuations...
- The Stelthburner was redesigned to get a bit more cooling on the printed part and to place the larger wheels (LGX) in the extruder...
- Single MGN9 Rail, since no negative effects were found after many tests. On the contrary, the lower weight made faster accelerations with less ghosting possible...
- The door now opens a full 270 degrees to make working on the printer easier...
- Voron 2's Z-Gantry has been swapped with Voron 1.8's to provide more stability in the Z axis...
- Vorons inductive probe is too unreliable when the chamber heats up. This was exchanged for a ClickyProbe, which is completely insensitive to temperature fluctuations...
- The Stelthburner was redesigned to get a bit more cooling on the printed part and to place the larger wheels (LGX) in the extruder...
- Single MGN9 Rail, since no negative effects were found after many tests. On the contrary, the lower weight made faster accelerations with less ghosting possible...
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Pins instead of screws
All screws on the pulleys have been replaced with pins to reduce friction and wear
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4:1 Gear Reduction
Z Axis has now a gear reduction of 4:1 to improve the resolution from 0.01mm to 0.0025mm
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7 inch touch display
with the KlipperScreen software to make operation directly on the printer even easier
AlphaXtruder
Based on Vorons Clockwork 2 with one difference, one BIG difference. We redesigned the entire extruder to implement Bondtech's Large Gears (LGX). The goal was to increase the grip of the wheels on the filament and thereby make it easier for the stepper motor to work. After many tests, it was definitely worth it...
In addition, we slightly reduced the weight of the extruder.
In addition, we slightly reduced the weight of the extruder.
Standard Stealthburner - It's not bad, but there are definitely a few things that can be improved. Especially the cooling performance on the back side of the printed part.
The new design - We have air outlets on both sides that are directed backwards at different distances so that there is as little turbulence as possible, but still manage to transport the heat much better at the back away from the printed part. While we were at it, we widened the air ducts so that the air is only compressed at the outlet and thus accelerated. As a little bonus, we also rotated the hotend's heat block by 180 so you have a better view of the print from the front
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Other projects that helped a lot...
