Filament Monitor

Triggers a printer Pause due to filament error by interacting with an I/O pin on the motherboard. Currently works with both sailfish and marlin firmwares. Curious about expanding to other printers.

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Description

Available for purchase here:

http://tunell.us

In action:
any type of loss of filament movement due to:
1) Out of Filament
2) Filament Jam
3) Extruder Clog
Activates firmware pause by dropping PJ2 voltage to near zero after several seconds of nonmotion.

Materials and methods

PLA,
Custom PCB
Electronic Components

Documents

Primary Housing
STL – 510 kb
Version 1 - Feb 04, 2015
Updated on 04-02-2015 – 1:12 h – 7 g – 34×28×25 mm
Edit in 3dslash
Version 1 - February 04, 2015 16:27
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Secondary Housing
STL – 490 kb
Version 1 - Feb 04, 2015
Updated on 04-02-2015 – 1:11 h – 7 g – 35×28×25 mm
Edit in 3dslash
Version 1 - February 04, 2015 13:42
Download

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Comments

Rflynn commented over 6 years ago

Will it work with hictop prusa i3 ? I have a filiment monitor.

Rflynn added this to the 3D printers collection over 6 years ago

Theo added this to the UM2 collection almost 7 years ago

Marcus Wolschon commented almost 7 years ago

Do you sell the custom PCB? The entire detector is $65 + $55 shipping. A PCB and some loose parts would fit in an envelope with me being able to 3D print the housing and assemble it.

Eghia Hay added this to the 1 collection about 7 years ago

Luca Costabile added this to the CTC 3D printer collection about 7 years ago

jingdong added this to the 3D collection about 7 years ago

erikgj added this to the UM2 Upgrades collection over 7 years ago

Aaron Tunell published this design almost 9 years ago