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Printing noise and Vibration

Posted by beeep22

beeep22

Printing noise and Vibration
December 05, 2014 01:14AM

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Hello Reprap Community,

I dont own a reprap yet, but after watching a number of videos where a prusa i3 was printing, I have heared the squeaking noise. Is this because of belt tension or a T2 vs T2.5 vs T3 pulley and belt holder thing?

Thanks,
Beeep22

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tmorris9

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 05, 2014 02:17AM

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It's linear bearings and stepper motors though most comes from the bearings.

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Ohmarinus

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 05, 2014 06:42AM

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You could use bronze bushings to make it more silent, or IGUS sliding bearings, but those are expensive.

http://www.marinusdebeer.nl/

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cdru

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 05, 2014 08:32AM

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A squeaking noise? Or more like musical tones? The latter can be heard in this video for instance and is inherent to how steppers operate. You'll always have that sound and personally, I like it. Printing curves is relaxing to my ears. But if it's an actual squeak then it could be a variety of other things. Can you point us to the video(s) in question?

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beeep22

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 05, 2014 06:05PM

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Hello,

This is the kind of noise im talking about
Video
SEE.
hear the squeak in the background?

Thanks,
Beeep22

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/05/2014 06:07PM by beeep22.

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tmorris9

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 05, 2014 10:35PM

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That sounds like the normal stepper motor noise to me.

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cdru

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 06, 2014 02:00AM

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I would agree. It's a lousy recording audiowise and kinda tinny both with the printer sounds and narriations, but from what I could hear it all sounded normal. In person it won't be as shrill sounding as moments were.

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pushthatbolder

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 11, 2014 10:53AM

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Yes. It is the the motors making the noise.
But with dampeners and fine tuning of stepper drivers you could eliminate most if not all this noise...

With fine tuning my x- axis and y-axis are silent.
But my double z-axis motor male a light buzz.
And my extruder makes the same.

And yes.
The camera is picking up and amplifying the noise.

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Ohmarinus

Re: Printing noise and Vibration
December 11, 2014 12:30PM

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I know that Gadgets3D has stepper drivers with a trimpot, you can make your machine run very silent with these stepper drivers and they aren't even that expensive.