Difference between revisions of "E3D Titan Aqua Mount"
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| − | E3D's Titan Aqua is a water-cooled HotEnd that also cools the Extruder. It's an all-metal HotEnd that can print at higher temperatures with additional equipment. The E3D Titan Aqua requires a water-cooling reservoir and radiator with fan. E3D sells a kit containing a reservoir, radiator with fan, and all required fittings and tubing. The pump and radiator fan in E3D's kit are 12V only: for 24V printers please use a DC-DC converter | + | E3D's Titan Aqua is a water-cooled HotEnd that also cools the Extruder. It's an all-metal HotEnd that can print at higher temperatures with additional equipment. The E3D Titan Aqua requires a water-cooling reservoir and radiator with fan. E3D sells a kit containing a reservoir, radiator with fan, and all required fittings and tubing. The pump and radiator fan in E3D's kit are 12V only: for 24V printers please use a DC-DC converter. |
== Adapting the Default Tool Plate to mount an E3D Titan Aqua== | == Adapting the Default Tool Plate to mount an E3D Titan Aqua== | ||
[[File:Titan Aqua overall view.jpg|thumb|E3D Titan Aqua with coupling plate and wings attached.]] | [[File:Titan Aqua overall view.jpg|thumb|E3D Titan Aqua with coupling plate and wings attached.]] | ||
| − | The E3D Titan Aqua includes an extruder stepper motor but in order to minimize the tools impact on usable Y area, an LDO compact stepper was chosen. | + | The E3D Titan Aqua includes an extruder stepper motor but in order to minimize the tools impact on usable Y area, an LDO compact stepper was chosen; The LDO variant is 14mm more shallow. |
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| + | [[File:E3D vs LDO compact stepper.jpg|thumb|E3D vs LDO compact stepper]] | ||
=== Coupler Plate design === | === Coupler Plate design === | ||
Revision as of 21:18, 6 July 2020
E3D's Titan Aqua is a water-cooled HotEnd that also cools the Extruder. It's an all-metal HotEnd that can print at higher temperatures with additional equipment. The E3D Titan Aqua requires a water-cooling reservoir and radiator with fan. E3D sells a kit containing a reservoir, radiator with fan, and all required fittings and tubing. The pump and radiator fan in E3D's kit are 12V only: for 24V printers please use a DC-DC converter.
Adapting the Default Tool Plate to mount an E3D Titan Aqua
The E3D Titan Aqua includes an extruder stepper motor but in order to minimize the tools impact on usable Y area, an LDO compact stepper was chosen; The LDO variant is 14mm more shallow.
Coupler Plate design
Left/Right Wing Design
Water Cooling Reservoir, Pump, Hoses, and Fittings
12V mixed with 24V
The Water-Cooling kit from E3D uses a 12V fan and 12V pump and therefore cannot be plugged directly into a Duet2Eth board used to drive 24V fans. As a solution, the Duet Wiki provides a solution for using mixed voltages. It involves taking 24V from the power supply and using a step-down converter (e.g. LM2596 Buck Converter DC to DC Step-Down Voltage Regulator) to provide 12V+ to your fans. Then connect the ground pins of the fans to the Duet board for control. Duet3D link for connecting fans with mixed voltages
This provides the 12V needed for the reservoir pump and radiator fan, while allowing the Duet2Eth & Duex5 boards to maintain 24V for any additional fans.
Effect on Other Tools
As a result of the increased size in Y over the default tool, the other tools' coupling plates needed offsetting. This design problem can be solved many ways; we chose to us a 15mm "spacer" with two 15mm M3 standoff press-fit into it. Parking Post 15mm Spacer
Unfortunately, tool sag is a problem with this configuration. As a result, this spacer is seen as a temporary solution while designing an elongated tool post to correctly move the tool out along Y and maintaining a square face to the carriage coupling plate would be preferential.
Other links to items on this page
E3D's Assembly guide for Titan Aqua