I Bought a Battery Backup for My 3D Printer, You Won’t Believe Why! 

MOAR POWER! Never enough Gigawats are there Loyal? 😁 ⚡️

Loyal, you are a classical style storyteller.your best videos come from when you tell a story. You did a really good job with this one.

It was just ironic that I was talking to Nic in another tab. So glad this worked out and he had more filament.

What a great idea. Fortunately we very rarely have power issues here!! (I’ve just jinxed it 😂)

Polymaker and Nic are just amazing! They are true pillars of the 3D Printing community!!! Another great video too!

Polymaker is awesome for finding the 7 spools of filament. Hopefully no more problems arise and this amazing project gets finished

Yeah i decided a while ago that on my XL i'm gonna add a 2000VA tripplite. Bigger prints are worth it. I don't really mind a 1kg failure on a mk3, but more than that is a huge time investment. I've had bad experience with APC, and furmans are pricey, so I settled on tripplite.

Cant wait to see the reprinted helmet :) sad that it had that failure, but glad you got a backup just in case

ive seen people save prints like that by using calipers to measure the height from a feature and dividing by layer height to get the layer number they failed at. if the print stopped in the middle of a layer though you'll have to take an exacto knife and remove the partial layer first. It's possible to save it but it depends on how much time you have and what it's worth to you haha

I bought 2 @ APC 600VA UPS units for my routers. They are 330 watts. When I tried one with my 3D Printers it worked ok. But that is only when I plug 1 printer into it. When I plug 2 printers into it the UPS starts beeping pulling power from the battery even though its still plugged into the wall with power. I probably need a better one to run two printers at once through it.

Good Idea about the UPS

The X1C actually draws ~950w when the build plate and extruder are heated simultaneously. It’s only on startup though 🤷🏼‍♂️

im new to 3d printing but what would i do is probably use a 3d pen to cover the gaps using the same filament for that and maybe sand it idk

I've got a APC Smart-UPS SMT2200RMI2UC for 2 Bambu's and 2 MK4's I might get a 2nd one for more printers :)

maybe a silly solution but if you got a 3D pen you can just put it on yourself , you can hide the seam wiht the pen and and if you then sand it a bit no one will notice it will stay a weak point and can mess up a lot more if done wrong ,but it is worht it to save your print last option is to just glue it on it , then use a solder and "smooth" out the edge so it looks like a solid line also works nice, same trick as with the 3D pen only with a solder iron instead

Hey there just what I was looking for! I am curious though, have you tested the X1C this way also? I have 2 and I have both running through a Bluetti in UPS mode and it was not fast enough for hte Printers but all the computers were fine. I am contemplating a UPS like this in the middle. yours looked fast enough for the big printer.

Did you remember to adjust the back up idler wheel before you started the print?

It just so happens that I had a power spike come through tonight and caused a quick flickering. It stopped both my printers. Luckily I had power recovery enabled. However, I have no idea why one print decided to shift backwards a good 1/2". Only 81% complete on a Mando helmet (lower part of dome above visor). Now hooked up to my UPS which was only 12 inches away give or take a few inches. There goes my only spool of Beluga Silk Silver/Blue from #Polymaker.

which UPS should I get for a bambu lab p1s running on 120V ? please help

Essential equipment, you just never know...🧐

@loyalmoses some low voltage circuit breakers are heat sensitive let’s say you have 4x 200a breakers and it’s a very hot day they won’t trip at there intended trip rating they would trip early and another reason if your battery’s are low your inverters will want to draw more current because the voltage is low your inverters want a higher voltage to have consistent current draw for the out put of your inverters with out having your battery be too low which will increase the current draw there for putting stress on the inverter for having a lower voltage and higher current draw to make up the difference for the power output of the inverter to serve your house For example 2000w draw from the output of the inverter divided by your voltage 12v battery or whatever it is let’s say 13.8v would want to draw 144.9 amps and if it’s a 12v battery bank and there at 12v which would be flat 2000w divided by 12v “flat”would draw 166.6amps that’s about 22 amps in difference hopefully my math is correct lol

Why print both parts separately? I just figure the Z height where the print stopped and I update the gcode to start at that position, if you remove the piece from the bed it's game over I had to do this a couple of times and never had problems

Loyal, don't you know a watched pot never boils?🤣🤣🤣

Picked one up after my voron got fried from a power hick up

I am curious how many of us messaged Nick the second we heardthe story.

It can probably be salvaged. You need a perfectly flat surface and a large piece of wet-dry sandpaper (the size of the seem layer). Place the sandpaper on the perfectly flat surface, then very lightly sand down each half until they are perfectly flat. This should give you 2 perfectly flat surfaces to GLOOP!!!! Shame on you for not using UPSes. Every single electronic device that I have that plugs into the wall, is on a UPS. Kitchen devices excepted. ;)

Battery backups are such a good tool to have, especially when big projects need protecting. I hadn’t even thought about that. Definitely interested in learning more about the ranch being totally off grid and run on solar and generator. Btw Big Bunny Trooper is gonna look awesome.

How did you have a power failure if you are 100% off grid?

Lots of Gloop...

As a PC gamer/enthusiast, not having a UPS for your tech is a cardinal sin. You don't want your 1K+ PC, monitor, 3D printer to go bust, do you?