Will Adding Insulation to your Printer Bed Make it Heat Up Faster? Let's Find Out!

[@davethetaswegian]

Keep in mind, if you a printing inside a chamber or enclosure then your heated bed will be doing double duty as the chamber heater (assuming you don't have a dedicated chamber heater). So for materials that like high ambient temps, insulating the bed may be counter productive.

[@3dexperiments]

@ andrewesquivel It would be interesting to see the same test with an ambient temperature sensor inside the tent.

[@JB-ro7kv]

haha, truly this video gave me a chuckle... great video thanks for posting and just wanted to say I am enjoying the series of videos you posted on building out your enclosed printer setup :)

[@TAHAT-t9k]

Thanks!

[@gglovato]

¿Can you try doing a PID tune for the bed for both cases before benchmarking them?, the insulation should change the pid curve

[@donuthole7236]

One flaw in your test was the much of the bed corners were exposed and not insulated, only the center which will reduce the heater's ability to propagate a more even heat distribution throughout the bed. I think a fully insulated bed would have better results.

[@crazyoptimists6896]

For me, the main facotr of insulation to the underside of the bed is keeping the bed heated. I put my test printers on a meter and over time it used 20% less electricity and the print bed was substantially more stable. My PID settings were very different as well. I put a camer on the creality dial pad then manually counted how often the bed was heating itself. Was 55% less than without insulation. I wish I could find that footage. However, it's not difficult to replicate.

[@rentaspoon219]

It would be more interesting if the overall energy costs drop during prints

[@3D_Printing]

Creality Ender 5 Plus. ( Other 3D printers could use this as well). Cool down Heat Bed 15 minutes quicker Part 3 This saves 15 minutes on every print I do. Normally the Buld Plate takes about 30 minutes to cool down, this uses two fans to blow on the underside to cool it in 15 minutes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpXTdHx7pbx0a7c

[@3D_Printing]

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