Yes it is very handy. I am looking forward to testing other color stickers with it. As for labels it's hard to beat a thermal printer.

Thank you. I will look into a de-burring tool. Easy and effective is what I am looking for.

The small air is the way to go for this item. Durable but not to large. The loss on the air pillow seems to be 1 foot or less. I was struggling to get the first section started but now have it dialed in.

Something like that. It is for passing air in a very specific application.

That is a good idea. I might pick another color of sticker and do that. 3D printing is lots of fun.

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The standard is 24" or 16" on center. That layout works well to match up with lumber and sheet goods.

@ 24 inch sounds good to me, thank you !!

turns out the issues was my own heater messing with the power. However after the big storm that knocked out the power for 18 days the grid is not reliable. I had no less than 5 prints mess up on the system before the UPS. I only showed the 1 print in the video. The oil heater turns on at 700w. The Bambu A1 can continue on a power supply switch time of 15ms from my testing.

Sounds like you had a big job on that printer! Learned that lesson really fast. It only took me a weeks or so to learn that I needed a ups. Once my oil heater is removed from the room I have a 15kwh whole house system that will run the printers off grid. That is a much better 2 is 1 situation. I tried to use a Zendure Super Base V but sadly it turns off automatically at 48 hours. Was not a good solution to battery backup.

i have one of the 1350va units i bought 10 years ago, i've replaced the batteries once. it has survived running my desktop with 850w supply through very cold winters living in a trailer to now living in an actual house. i also have 3 of the 1500va units at work, 2 run our Prusa XL 5 tool printers (750w draw on preheat) and the 3rd runs another powerful desktop with 850w supply. 3-4 years on those units so far. i've another APC rack mount UPS that is now giving me inverter errors and randomly decides to not recognize the battery. i'm replacing it with the equivalent Cyberpower unit.

Sorry to hear that you have bad experience with this model. So far I have around 40 hours of print time on this one and it has not had any issues. There are plenty of more costly models of UPS. Perhaps if this one does not last long I will try something else.

Good to hear that the Cyberpower has done well for your needs. This is the first one I have tried. So far so good.

@ I think it is more of a quality control issue. We also have some very old cyber power units that are reliable. But the new ones seem to depend on your luck. Before this one I had an old Mustek 800VA ups that kept the printer online without an issue, reporting only 70% load while heating the bed and nozzle from 0 to working temp.

The Bambu A1 does that too as long as the power was only out for a moment. If the bed cools its game over for that print.

It cycles at 700w. I am about to move the heater to a dedicated grid circuit and the printers will be run off grid. Should solve the issues I was having. But the UPS is providing very clean power and I am happy.

Even more interesting, as a former copy machine technician, I arrived at the conclusion that all copy machines should have an implementation of a UPS for the "brain"/computing system of the machine as many times during a "power event"--lightning storm/wind storm, the power would either bounce or sag causing the data to be corrupted on the hard drive and requiring a hard drive replacement or a drive re-format to make the machine functional again. I most definitely had "job security"!!! 😂

That is a good point. Probably increases the cost more than they are willing to go to.

Its wild how fast computer data can be corrupted. I remember the old Dos days.

they have ;)

Yes they do. however if the bed cools the print is lost. So for the power station test that turned off after 48 hours. The print sat for several hours with the power off.

Its about conditioning the power in this case, not really power outages. Kinda like having a mini power station in your house to make super clean and consistent power.

​@@LerrySanders Tell me you understand nothing about power grids without telling me ;) No offense, but this is not correct. "Kinda like having a mini power station in your house" - usual base load powerplants in the USA have an allowed frequency tolerance of 5 % (which is totally OK, because on average the grid takes care about frequency fluctuations) - so "a mini power station in your house" would be the worst to have clean power ;) Power outages are an issue indeed, because every power outage in a segment of the synchronous grid raises (or lowers) the frequency of the rest of the grid - this is a major challenge for the grid operators. To bring this in perspective: the last major event where the european grid went over the frequecy treshold was 2021 where an big substation in Croatia "exploded", this raised the net frequency to about 1,2 % over the nominal value - the issue was resolved in 1 hour. So no continental power outage, but a "small" substation in a country in one corner of the continent was enough to mess up the grid. This deviation was roughly to 50,6 Hz, so 500 mHz over the treshold of the nominal frequency. The product you use has a frequency error of ± 1% (at 60 Hz) according to the data sheet. So within the specs of the product it would be totally OK to have 600 mHz overfrequency. The mean frequency error of the european grid is ± 0,1 % (at 50 Hz). Long story short: your "super clean and consistent power" is 12 times less stable than an entire power grid that serves roughly 400 million customers in 24 countries. If it works for you or it is neccesary in the US, this is fine - but for european users this is in most cases just a waste of money.

This area used to be nice and clean. After the Big Storm and power was knocked out for 18 days we have issues all the time. Power Poles are still laying half in the road and that was 5 months ago. In this case my issues is internal power surging. That heater pulls 700w and causes the printer to skip a line.

Yes exactly. The heater was pulling 700w and causing the printer to skip a step.

This one pulls 700w when it kicks on. Most of the year its not an issue here. For example today it was 68 degrees outside. two weeks ago it was 4 degrees out. A fully enclosed shelf would be nice for the heat. moisture but probably not going to happen. Next up I am going to take the heater to a new circuit and the printers will be off grid.

The building has 3 heaters running in it. The oil heater is on the same circuit as the printers. That is one thing that needs to change. I have not tested printers on and off the UPS together but I did test the 3 printers together without the UPS and they all had skips at the same layer. That tells me it was a power issue.

There are no almost invisible layer lines, its all about the light setup while holding your prints in the camera :)

Thank you. The prints are with normal PLA with .4 nozzle. The layer lines are there just hard to see in the video.

Yes the layer lines are there just hard to see on video.

Depends on the country you are living in: in Germany I would have never considered one. After moving to Romania it's a must have.

Power in the USA is often consistent enough to run computers without a UPS. However the heater in my room was causing the power to mess up.

As soon as I move that heater from the circuit I can switch my power to off grid. That is going to be nice. I will still need the UPS for consistent power.

old or shitty wiring probably in the building. still UPS are great idea for many devices, including computers.

Dependency on carbon base energy sources. Nuclear, solar and wind power are S tier

it can happen in any country, even if its rare you'll be glad to have an ups

It's a "better safe than sorry" measure more than anything. I'm up north (Canada) and the power does go out once in a blue moon. At least I'll be ready when the time comes.

Lol, the us is a developing nation in a lot of ways

I bet so! This fixed my problem right away! Now I can print 10 hours without issues. Power surge was my issue.

I get what you’re saying. I’m torn between the 12 k and the 24. Darn shame they don’t have an 18k. I’m trying to convince Southern California Edison to fund one of these. That will make it a MUCH easier decision. They are already going to replace our OLD electric water heater with a Heat Pump Model and replace our 1986 Garage Refrigerator with a new one. Our Propane heater took a dump and we’ve heated all winter with a wood stove we hadn’t used in 20 years. A 12k unit could be supplemented with the wood stove. But AC is AC. It gets DAMN hot here in the Southern Sierra foothills. Our home is pretty old and about nearly 800 sf of heated and cooled space. Cheers.

I have built 4 other building and made my trusses for them. I wanted to make sure that the roof was extra strong on this building and also knew I did not want to take that much time. This build was great! Learned a lot and have enjoyed the space!