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title: 3d printer date: 2018-05-20 author: Philipp Schönberger tags: 3d printer, ender2, CAT category: projects
Since this month I one now one small 3d printer. Its a "ender 2" with an build volume of 165x165x200mm. For my purposes this is more than enough since I always could print larger parts with the Toolbox e.V. Printers since I am member there.
[lightgallery /images/3d/ender2.jpg, Creality 3D® Ender-2 Source:https://www.creality3d.cn/ lightgalleryend]
The printer was pretty easy to assemble and took just about 2 hours of carfully reading and assembling the parts.
Out of the box the printer was printing prefect. But since i did know that the printer from Creality have disables safety features I installed the latest firmware from the Marlin github repository.
There I changed the config parameters to my need and enabled the following options to lower the risk of fire caused by a printer failure.
#define THERMAL_PROTECTION_HOTENDS // Enable thermal protection for all extruders
#define THERMAL_PROTECTION_BED // Enable thermal protection for the heated bed
With this option enabled I Printed a benchy which came out perfectly. A benchy is a small boot which you can see in the lower picture. It has some structural parts which are though to print.
[lightgallery /images/3d/benchy.png, first benchy with 0.15mm layer hight /images/3d/stl_benchy.png, stl file of the benchy lightgalleryend]