Sad Replicator, Happy Replicator
Last weekend I printed out this Makerbot Snowman for a ‘secret-Santa’ gift exchange:
All together took around 7 hours. The next day I went to do another print. But something was wrong. The Heated Build Platform wasn’t ‘heating’… it was stuck on 14 degs. Upon closer inspection I saw this:
(it was plugged in at the time, un-plugged for drama)
Fried. Contacted Makerbot tech-support, and 5 days later I had a new wire & connector in-hand, no charge. Plugged it all together:
And now it’s happily printing again. It’s probably hard to tell from the pics, but the positive and negative leads on the new connector are a larger gauge: Support said that the newer models ship with the larger wires, presumably because of these issues.