Hey there. Can I put longer PTFE tubes on the AMS? Let´s say a meter long?
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Can’t help with a meter, all I ever had was around 80cm.
I guess as long as it won’t violate any timers the length is relative.
Be are you may need some extra support for the longer tubes as they will droop considerably. I had bought some new tubing to move my AMS farther away to the side, and that was the biggest issue. .
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It will probably be easier to just use a PTFE tube connector instead of replacing the one inside the AMS
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Yes, you can do that.
It doesn’t matter whether you use a new tube or connect two.
I have also not been able to detect any ‘time-out’ that could cause a problem. In my case, the tube was not connected correctly to the printer once and the AMS delivered filament like crazy. There was no error that the filament never arrived at the printer…
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Thank you all guys/girls… You were very helpfull.
Hmm… two conflicting posts above. One says it will keep feeding, the video says there is a limit. While I have not tried it (I may later) IMO the video one probably got hung up on the splice connector. PTFE tubing is relatively cheap, so why use splices???
There is a limit, but it is longer than 1m
Ok, so I ran a test on mine. I disconnected one tube. I put a fresh spool on the AMS and let it feed the amount it normally does. Then I tried to do a print. It did error out. I measured the total distance from the AMS end of the tube to the end of the filament. It was 5ft 3 in.
But realistically, you could use longer tubes, you just need to manually push a fresh spool into the tube farther to begin with. When the AMS does color changes, it only retracts it a few inches. The only issue would be with a fresh spool, and even then you can just hit retry when it errors and it will push more.
I think the only real limitation on tube length would be resistance of the filament in the tube causing an error if it detected too much drag.
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