Comments on: Airtripper Extruder Filament Force Sensor – Announcement http://airtripper.com/1320/airtripper-extruder-filament-force-sensor-announcement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=airtripper-extruder-filament-force-sensor-announcement 3D Printer usage and modifications plus Arduino powered electronic projects and 3D Printing designs. Sun, 08 Jun 2014 11:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3 By: Mark Heywoodhttp://airtripper.com/1320/airtripper-extruder-filament-force-sensor-announcement/#comment-359 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:41:24 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=1320#comment-359 Yeah, I wondered if this had been attempted before, I think 10kg of force would likely break something on my printer :) We probably don’t need half that much force today. I may be wrong.

I’m using a 5kg load cell on a bowden cable type extruder. Basically, anybody that is using the Airtripper style extruder set-up would be able to easily get this new kit in place. It would just be an extruder upgrade, but takes up a little more room.

My focus is with the bowden extruder set up because this is where the sensor data will be of more use for g-code set-up. I think most bowden users will be glad of a little feedback if it will help get the best out of their bowden extruder system.

Mark

]]> By: Josef Prusahttp://airtripper.com/1320/airtripper-extruder-filament-force-sensor-announcement/#comment-357 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:17:56 +0000 http://airtripper.com/?p=1320#comment-357 I was working on that looooong time ago. How does your system look like? I used two load cells http://www.flickr.com/photos/prusajr/5844014968/in/photostream

With 3mm filament I was reading about 10kg force :-)

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