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PZProbe - Yet another Piezo implementation


mvdveer

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Got an e-mail from e3d, announcing the availability of their nozzle probe. It is called the PZProbe. It is designed specifically for the Voron Stealthburner and uses, like TAP, the nozzle as a probe.

From what I have read, once it is dialled in, no matter the change in the thickness of the build plate, the Z-Offset will stay consistent.

Not much out there in the wild as yet. This is probably the better of the two available videos out there: (Does not show PZProbe at work)

So bed meshing will be with the nozzle as with TAP.

Will it sway me away from Beacon contact - likely not. 

Cannot test it at present as there are no stock available - all already sold out. (And it is not cheap!)

 

 

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the only piezo probe I know of that really works great is the pyr0piezo, but he seems to be out of business. 

it's kinda sad that it didn't get more attention, since he did a fantastic work designing the hardware and firmware to actually make it work reliably! 

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1 hour ago, claudermilk said:

I saw that. Looks interesting, and E3D is one I'd expect to figure it out to work. That might get me to switch from the Tap, which is now rock solid for me.

I've gone from TAP to beacon. 0,003 accuracy, fit and forget regardless of sheet changes.

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7 minutes ago, gueee said:

I switched to a cartographer3D, pretty much the same as beacon and recently touch was implemented. 

I'm super happy with the repeatability and same accuracy wise, 0.003 is just insane to be honest. 

Agree...

I think all other probes pale by comparison.

Hopefully competition will bring the cost down to a more reasonable level, at least for the Beacon anyways.

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nothing happens, it just works. 

I can only talk from the cartographer perspective, but as far as my research goes, it's the exact same for beacon. 

beacon contact, or carto touch do a calibration of the nozzle offset to the scanned mesh, it's basically set and forget. 

10 hours ago, Penatr8tor said:

Hopefully competition will bring the cost down to a more reasonable level, at least for the Beacon anyways.

yeah, beacon is still pretty expensive, but others based on openbedscanner are already pretty affordable imo. 

I paid 35 bucks for the cartographer3D v3 ADXL version. there's a lis2dw version as well, not much difference though. 

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