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Redrex extruder upgrade kit

From the following page, an upgrade kit is offered, mainly containing a filament extruder motor with a gear reduction. The gear reduction would give the extruder more force to push the filament in.

The following information I was able to find:

  • Increase the E-step value to 4001).

Extruder Frame Specifications:

  • Material: Injection molding plastic
  • Driving Gear Diameter: 12mm
  • Driven Gear Diameter: 8mm
  • Transmission Ratio: 3:1
  • Stepper Motor Specifications:
  • Motor Type: Bipolar Stepper
  • Number of Phase: 2
  • Step Angle: 1.8 deg.
  • Rate Voltage: DC 3.0V
  • Holding Torque:DC 1.2A
  • Phase Resistance: 2.5ohms ±10%(20℃)
  • Phase Inductance: 3.8mH ±20% (1KHz)
  • Rotor Inertia: 30.8g.cm²
  • Size: ±63*85*69mm
  • Weight: ±290g

Extruder intake

After following the extruder intake calibration procedure it was observed that instead of 100mm the intake was only 25mm, So this resulted into the following DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT in Configuration.h:

//Old value: #define DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT   { 160, 160, 800, 185.20 }
#define DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT   { 160, 160, 800, E779.80 }

And after performing a second calibration, a distance from 19.9mm was measured, resulting in the following:

//Old value: #define DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT   { 160, 160, 800, 185.20 }
#define DEFAULT_AXIS_STEPS_PER_UNIT   { 160, 160, 800, E780.58 }

Alternative extruder

If other problems appear with filament not being able to pushed in, also the Zeelo dual drive extruder/motor could be a solution.

projects/3dprinting/anycubic_i3_mega/upgrade_kit.1583273578.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/03/03 23:12 by admin