EvilC57 Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 (edited) I was printing an aileron for the Planeprint Jetwing I'm building, when I had a power cut earlier this morning. I knew that some of the more expensive printers such as the Prusas advertise power loss recovery so they'll pick up from where they left off in the event of a power cut during a print. However I've never seen this feature advertised for the cheaper Ender 3 series printers, so I assumed my Ender 3 V2 didn't have it, and that in such an event I would lose the print. So when everything in the house dropped out when I was about 90% into the print, I though 'Oh dear, (or words to that effect!) I've just lost it'. However looking at the printer, the onscreen menu invited me to resume after an unexpected power loss. I took the option to continue, and the only ill effects suffered were a small 'nodule' at the trailing edge of the aileron which can be trimmed off, and a slight ridge in the layer where the event happened, which is such a small defect I can live with it. Pleasantly surprised! Edited December 7, 2022 by EvilC57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Parity Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 On 07/12/2022 at 13:41, EvilC57 said: I was printing an aileron for the Planeprint Jetwing I'm building, when I had a power cut earlier this morning. I knew that some of the more expensive printers such as the Prusas advertise power loss recovery so they'll pick up from where they left off in the event of a power cut during a print. However I've never seen this feature advertised for the cheaper Ender 3 series printers, so I assumed my Ender 3 V2 didn't have it, and that in such an event I would lose the print. So when everything in the house dropped out when I was about 90% into the print, I though 'Oh dear, (or words to that effect!) I've just lost it'. However looking at the printer, the onscreen menu invited me to resume after an unexpected power loss. I took the option to continue, and the only ill effects suffered were a small 'nodule' at the trailing edge of the aileron which can be trimmed off, and a slight ridge in the layer where the event happened, which is such a small defect I can live with it. Pleasantly surprised! That looks really good, my printer has a filament runout detector and I was wondering how the printer would cope if the filament ever did run out. Seeing that gives me hope it will be fine. I'm not sure how to load a new roll and feed it without the extruder running empty but I will google it now just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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