Xlc-9

Well after printing 50 of these bulbs complete , I now have a little understanding of these wonderful little printers . :)

I started off with the stock print nozzle of .4 and no understanding of print settings lol . yeah i know rush to finish .
This took 2.4 hrs to print 1 white bulb . After playing with setting and realizing special modes thanks to Wilmar
time was reduced to 38 mins.
I was able to further reduce the time by adjusting Fr to 160 - 190 . This was by fluke in learning by trial and error .
One day i gotta read the instructions :)
 
Wilmar ..........! You are Gold ! :)

I managed to get 74 of your wonderful xlc9's on my gutters and WOW . A return to normalcy.
Yesteryear is where I want to stay , retro-old fashioned relic what ever they want to call t is just fine with me .

Now to print 5-6k more of them . Lookout Clark .

Thanks again Wilmar .
Cheers



 
angus40 said:
Wilmar ..........! You are Gold ! :)

I managed to get 74 of your wonderful xlc9's on my gutters and WOW . A return to normalcy.
Yesteryear is where I want to stay , retro-old fashioned relic what ever they want to call t is just fine with me .

Now to print 5-6k more of them . Lookout Clark .

Thanks again Wilmar .
Cheers



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Those look great congrats


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OK, you guys convinced me. I’ve got 800 nodes from a tree I did 6 years ago and don’t use anymore. I ordered the 0.8 mm nozzles. I’ll put one on the Ender 3. I ordered the same PETG William linked to. But I saw where you said to slow the print speed down to get the PETG to stick. I’ve used Cura since I started but I haven’t adjusted any speeds yet. I see it’s set to 50mm per. What do you suggest for the speed?

Angus, you’re video got me hooked. I’ve wanted to do something like that from the first moment I saw a pixel. I just couldn’t find anything I liked. I have hundreds of Chinese bulbs, but I can’t stand the way they look. These things are beautiful, and look great on your house!

Thank guys,

Jeff
 
I just started printing Wilmar's bigger C9 with PTEG (first time trying it), with .8mm nozzle I slowed it down to 30ms and it seems to be doing great.
 
So what I did was I raised nozzle temp to 235 and have been able to successfully speed up to around 60ms with no issues . What I learned with spiral mode is if the spiral don’t stick try raising the temp has worked for me to allow for faster printing.


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OK, got it. I will try as soon as I get my hands on stuff. Thank you. 11 months and change until I light these puppies up! ;-)

Jeff
 
wilmar said:
So what I did was I raised nozzle temp to 235 and have been able to successfully speed up to around 60ms with no issues . What I learned with spiral mode is if the spiral don’t stick try raising the temp has worked for me to allow for faster printing.


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Wilmar are your settings based on using a glass bed ? I didn't change any heat settings to get faster print time .
I just adjusted the Fr ,though this is on the standard bed plate .
White bulbs were perfectly fine with the Fr increase and the clear bulbs had a few bubbly artifacts in the last 15% or so .
 
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Wilmar are your settings based on using a glass bed ? I didn't change any heat settings to get faster print time .
I just adjusted the Fr ,though this is on the standard bed plate .
White bulbs were perfectly fine with the Fr increase and the clear bulbs had a few bubbly artifacts in the last 15% or so .
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Yes but on the large ones if the spiral don’t stick at higher Speed then try raising temp of nozzle .


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Jeff Millard said:
OK, you guys convinced me. I’ve got 800 nodes from a tree I did 6 years ago and don’t use anymore. I ordered the 0.8 mm nozzles. I’ll put one on the Ender 3. I ordered the same PETG William linked to. But I saw where you said to slow the print speed down to get the PETG to stick. I’ve used Cura since I started but I haven’t adjusted any speeds yet. I see it’s set to 50mm per. What do you suggest for the speed?

Angus, you’re video got me hooked. I’ve wanted to do something like that from the first moment I saw a pixel. I just couldn’t find anything I liked. I have hundreds of Chinese bulbs, but I can’t stand the way they look. These things are beautiful, and look great on your house!

Thank guys,

Jeff
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Wilmar nailed it out of the park for me with this xlc9 creation .
I will be converting all my string pixels to these for 2021 : )
 
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Nozzles just got delivered, but I’m stuck on 16 hour days through the weekend due to the coming high winds and rain. Dang weatherman getting all excited over nothing. Otherwise, I would’ve been home for the weekend with Dawn and hour ago. She just asked what I’m buying with my overtime money. I reminded her I paid for our Christmas presents with the Discover card. So now I can look forward to the monthly cash back bonus, and that’s about it. ;-)

Jeff
 
Got the Black PETG tonight. Printed the very first base. I like this filament! Turned out perfect. White scheduled to be here Tuesday. That’ll give me time to change the nozzle on the Ender 3 for the bulbs. Getting the pixels out tomorrow to test and make sure they still work. When I used them for the tree, I had about 10-15 failures out of 800 over a month.

Jeff
 
Jeff Millard said:
Got the Black PETG tonight. Printed the very first base. I like this filament! Turned out perfect. White scheduled to be here Tuesday. That’ll give me time to change the nozzle on the Ender 3 for the bulbs. Getting the pixels out tomorrow to test and make sure they still work. When I used them for the tree, I had about 10-15 failures out of 800 over a month.

Jeff
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What brand filament did you go with ?


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I got the Dikale. It’s better than the Duramic PETG I paid twice as much for. I promise not to buy all of it I see on Amazon. Just a small portion... I put the 0.8mm nozzle on, and started the first bulb. At Fr of 110 (Hey baby steps...) it’s 40% done a t 24 minutes. The bases have been printing with a 0.4mm in an hour and 45 minutes. So, I guess I know what I’m doing with the other 0.8mm nozzle after this print ends.

The first bulb is a fail though. Somehow the filament got tangled on the reel. It caused the feed to slow, so about halfway up there’s a thin spot. I also realized after starting, that I left the temp at the default of 215. That’s just not hot enough I think.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience William...

Jeff
 

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I got the Dikale. It’s better than the Duramic PETG I paid twice as much for. I promise not to buy all of it I see on Amazon. Just a small portion... I put the 0.8mm nozzle on, and started the first bulb. At Fr of 110 (Hey baby steps...) it’s 40% done a t 24 minutes. The bases have been printing with a 0.4mm in an hour and 45 minutes. So, I guess I know what I’m doing with the other 0.8mm nozzle after this print ends.

The first bulb is a fail though. Somehow the filament got tangled on the reel. It caused the feed to slow, so about halfway up there’s a thin spot. I also realized after starting, that I left the temp at the default of 215. That’s just not hot enough I think.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience William...

Jeff
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Awesome good to hear your rolling !!


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The first bulb came unstuck from the bed at about 65%. I don’t have the white Dikale yet, only the black. I’ve got 12 bases printed, and the second bulb is going fine using 230 degrees and I used a raft to keep it nailed down. I have 3 PEI beds coming. I bought a 3rd for a friend’s kid. Then I got an email from the seller that they gifted a PEI sheet. Not sure if that’s just the PEI sheet, or the bed but I got a free gift so that’s something.

Richard said the PEI beds work great and the parts stick well. They’re on a slow boat from Ch. At least I’ll have time before they have to be ready.

Jeff
 
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