I’ve been really enjoying using my X1C but being in a high humidity environment makes printing some filaments harder. I have a dedicated filament dryer but having to prepare each filament I want to use a day in advance has been slightly frustrating. Does anyone have any ideas on how to potentially make the AMS turn into a filament dryer besides desiccant?
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Someone posted a mod they made to the AMS lid, with a heater and fan. It might have been in one of the (too many) Facebook groups. It seemed overkill to me.
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Do you need to dry the filament with heat or is it enough to let the filament a day or so in the ams to dry?
If you life in normal regions without high humidity.
I need heat, desiccant is too slow. With nylon and pc I need the higher heat to dry it out better. I love with around 50% humidity so it’s pretty brutal. I was trying to think of a way where I could remove the bottom of the ams and create my own top panel that would passively take in the heat of the printer as it printed. It definitely adds more volume to dry but could be an easy way to keep the filament warm and a bit dryer.
I’m right there with you, my dude. I’ve been printing with Nylon, and the prints are GREAT… only if I’ve had the spools sitting in an autoclave at 80°C to dry out for half a day. It’s nice that I have unused ones at work to facilitate this (it’s work’s x1c) but with 2x AMS’s i’m starting to wish i could just have the enclosed spools get a bit of a bake while they’re in there.
I wouldn’t want to run it always and every time, but it’d be great if the AMS w/my Nylon could be set to heat up… might need some insulation to make it efficient. efficient-er.
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The problem with that is, that a filament dryer needs an outlet for water vapor to come out or otherwise it won’t be effective. But the AMS is build to be pretty airtight. The only way I would see to keep it airtight but still add heating functionality would be to make it detachable and the lid not fully closed.
I use FixDry Double NT-1 & Eibos Cyclopes now. They can only hit 70C and have hot spots. They only fit 1kg spools well. I keep them going while printing. This has helped with brittle PLA spools, PETG, PC, PC-PBT, PAx, & TPU.
The Eibos Polyphemus will allow larger 250mm spools and will rotate the spool so I have some of those on pre-order.
I wish the AMS could hit 80C and the chamber 80C and we’d have an engineering materials winner on our hands in the X1C.