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Phaetus TaiChi, dual Color Hotend on SaturnOrbiter

Added 2022-02-04 02:18:07 +0000 UTC

The hotend mount is done and working great (will be added to the SaturnOrbiter files very soon)

Initially thought it would be a crazy setup with dual direct drive, but turns out it's not bad at all. Does look beasty though!

I needed a second extruder, so I scavenged parts from a BMG clone to make my own sherpa mini and printed in PETG.

Not ready for prime time yet, at least on my end, as I need to investigate things in details and dial in the correct settings in the slicer. Wrong settings will lead quickly to a jam which happened after 14 layers, and after changing settings on my second test jammed after 2 layers. Since it has to juggle correctly between the two filaments, without jamming one another.

And also proof that a 500~550g setup is no problem, thanks to the rigidity of the SaturnOrbiter. The two extruders combined is roughly the same weight as a standard stock extruder Nema 17 motor alone anyway. Which people use in direct drive. I was printing at 2000mm2/s acceleration with

So to all my patrons, if interested in the TaiChi, I will have a full write up with extruder settings once I have a good working setup, and Klipper Settings.

You do need an extra stepper driver for this obviously (I have an BTT E3 RRF with idex board so a total of 6 steppers)

If you want to do the crazy direct drive dual extruder, Orbiter 1.5 + sherpa mini combination is obviously done. But can accommodate any combinations of the three extruders on a request basis from my patrons (Orbiter 1.5, Orbiter 2.0, Sherpa mini)