Official Mini+ Enclosure - Doesn't "Make your 3D printer even more silent"
A head's up to anyone buying the enclosure and the main reason is noise reduction.... think carefully.
In the standard configuration, attaching the provided feet to raise the enclosure off the ground, just creates a metallic plate that has the freedom to resonate and amplify every slight movement of the print head. If you like The Body Rockers or Billie Eilish then that deep bass metallic throbbing vibration maybe your thing.....
If not, my first fix was to remove all the supplied feet, so the enclosure base is flat on the desk, used the hole for the extractor to route my power and network through and put the anti vibration feet back on the mini, https://www.printables.com/model/46470-prusa-mini-anti-vibration-feet then just plonked it in there...
Will try and create some extended dampeners that hold the thing in place when travelling.
RE: Official Mini+ Enclosure - Doesn't "Make your 3D printer even more silent"
Hi do you have some pics of your setup? I haven’t yet put together my enclosure. Do you have a concrete paver in there for the mini to sit on as well. Thanks
A head's up to anyone buying the enclosure and the main reason is noise reduction.... think carefully.
In the standard configuration, attaching the provided feet to raise the enclosure off the ground, just creates a metallic plate that has the freedom to resonate and amplify every slight movement of the print head. If you like The Body Rockers or Billie Eilish then that deep bass metallic throbbing vibration maybe your thing.....
If not, my first fix was to remove all the supplied feet, so the enclosure base is flat on the desk, used the hole for the extractor to route my power and network through and put the anti vibration feet back on the mini, https://www.printables.com/model/46470-prusa-mini-anti-vibration-feet then just plonked it in there...
Will try and create some extended dampeners that hold the thing in place when travelling.
RE: Official Mini+ Enclosure - Doesn't "Make your 3D printer even more silent"
Yes, I was deeply disappointed when I got the Enclosure for the MK4, this is the only Prusa product I've bought that I feel they really dropped the ball on. The Enclosure back then (bought it at launch) was as expensive as some cheaper 3D printers, so I was expecting nothing but excellence (I've got many more issues with the Enclosure design apart from acoustic resonance).
I've since added squash-ball feet to my MK4 which is a night-and-day difference in sound produced. I highly recommend it regardless if you've got an enclosure or not. I believe there are plenty of squash ball feet mods for the Mini as well.
I've also got the air filtration on my enclosure, and the vibration of the fan on the filter is amplified / resonated by the acrylic panels. It's not much of a noise increase, but if you hold your hand against the panels you can hear a low humming get removed. I haven't done anything to get rid of these resonances, but I would imagine that it is possible to add some sort of TPU dampening to the filtration mounting points. Not that I should need to do any of the sorts given how expensive they / the enclosure are.
But yes, based on what I've experienced I can't say anything other than "the enclosure makes the printer more quiet" is false marketing, and given how many times this Enclosure-resonance issue has come up I can't help but believe that it's intentional false marketing.
RE: Official Mini+ Enclosure - Doesn't "Make your 3D printer even more silent"
All interesting. I got the enclosure when I got the mini+. All when they were having that big sell last month. I got it mostly for maybe printing ASA in the future and for temp control around the printer while printing. No time to build my own and it’s not Chinese made. As for sound I’m not hearing it I guess and the printer is just sitting on top the dinning table. Granted it’s a 1940’s solid Mahogany table. Only upgrades being Z axis brace and foot supports. I don’t “hear” it from the kitchen. Only noise really is the beeping g-code buzzer r2-d2 sounds while printing that I added. Well did do the Bondtech IFS and Slice engineering copperhead heat end upgrades. That’s been a whirlwind figuring out and that Bondtech thumbscrew. How tight should it be on the filament. Is it four 1/2 turns or 4.5 turns???? Found some presets on printables by a guy name Reeder. Also, trying not to use the input shaper and just print slower. Seems to be helping. For me it’s something to tinker with. But still I want to be able to tinker and have fun.