{"id":1178,"date":"2022-05-30T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.inkofpark.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2024-09-01T19:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:38:34","slug":"better-filament-dryer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Better Filament Dryer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The previous dryer only achieved a peak temperature of about 47C, which is much lower than the recommended 80C from 3devo. I made two upgrades:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wrapped the bucket in a moving blanket for insulation, and then because I was concerned about overheating,<\/li><li>Connected a PID controller.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not seriously try to run this at 80C, but with set points of 45, 50, and 55 it does a reasonable job of holding steady overnight. Based on the curvature of the rise to the 55C set point I would speculate this could achieve a temperature of almost 70C, and will consider attempting that if long drying at 55 proves insufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2022-05-22_60W_PID_dehydrator_bucket_tempcurve.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"1180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2022-05-22_60W_PID_dehydrator_bucket_tempcurve.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1180\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous dryer only achieved a peak temperature of about 47C, which is much lower than the recommended 80C from 3devo. I made two upgrades: Wrapped the bucket in a moving blanket for insulation, and then because I was concerned about overheating, Connected a PID controller. I did not seriously try to run this at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62,64],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","tag-3d-printing","tag-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}