Only thing I do not like about the Bambu AMS Lite Top Mount is the weight it places on the top of the printer - so found the below solution where it adapts the Bambu version a little and creates an entire new support structure!
Works great for me, even with my AMS Lite enclosure!
Is there a list of hardware required to put this great support unit together?
Other then the screws - nothing else is required!
Be cognisant that the extra weight can lead to prints with issues and potential safety issues.
It must be as stable as possible, as should be the surface it sits on.
These seem like a good idea, but they are not part of the original design and no affordance was given during R&D.
I am not saying do not use, just be aware and careful.
That the whole point - there is no extra weight placed on the printer with this structure - the weight is on its own feet, unlike the BambuLab official solution that places all the weight on the printers frame.
It is secured to the top and the bottom of the printer, each y-axis move will provide energy that will transfer into the extremely top heavy AMS and cause reverberations.
It may be better than the ones propped up solely on the top beam, but physics are still physics.
It is secured but does not put any weight onto the frame at all. Rather it helps stiffen it and reduce vibrations. The Bambu solution sits completely, with all its weight, on top of the frame, and people have been using it perfectly fine. This adds no extra weight so has no effect on prints at all - and this is coming from someone who uses it in a production environment.
I didn’t say it did, we are talking about mass.
The weight is attached to the A1 though, it doesn’t need to be top mounted to cause issues.
Its mass joins the mass of the printer while changing the centre of gravity position.
The A1 is an aggressive bed-slinger in the y-axis.
The shift of that energy has to go somewhere and it will reverberate through the frame and anything connected.
Again. It is just physics.
I had an A1 for a while and it was returned during the recall. Prior to that I had many large prints and shifting that weight around cause reverberations as I have said, in my case it meant the printer started ‘walking’ towards the front of the table it was sat on.
The energy involved moved the printer, adding more mass can improve this, but locating most of it high up makes the print less stable.
I think you missed this part.