Hello, Sovol recently released a new module for the Zero, which works great according to a friend who already got one. However, it has a questionable wiring flaw that Sovol should’ve handled better, especially considering the original setup already included chamber heating.
You can see in the manual photo that it shows the heater connectors being placed over the already used ones for the bed’s SSR. That doesn’t seem right to me, and others agree. I’d like to order one for my unit, but that would mean cutting the connectors and wiring them properly using Wagos. Does anyone know an alternative way to wire these as they are, without cutting the connectors?
There are 100 different ways to accomplish what you want. The most over cautious would to be to remove all the mains level wiring. Remove the power plug/switch and obtain 3 line cords like
Design/print a strain relief for the opening you took the plug/switch from and install a dedicated line cord for the power supply, and each heater module. Plug all 3 into a switched power strip.
I don’t really see point why its unsafe, its just terminal block and its connected straight to AC coming from the plug, those terminal can take bigger load than the cables.
This is why it is unsafe, they expect you to connect 2 fork connectors, one over another, on the same slot on the Bed SSR module. Which won’t make the best connection especially knowing that the printer itself walks away while printing cause of the vibrations.
There is no extra slots on SSR input nor PSU input. I couldn’t find any bus bar with 3 posts that would accept 3 fork connectors (AC input, AC bed, AC chamber heater) that doesn’t cost a lot.
The Zero wasn’t supposed to have a heater, it was that way from the beginning.
So this is basically an aftermarket add on, you have to work with what you’ve got.
wdym it was not supposed to, they even addressed that into one of sovol’s zero videos (tldr: they said it was not needed cause the printer is small enough to heat up on its own). It had cfg for chamber heater since v1.0 + spot to screw it in on the side panel + spare empty canbus port on the motherboard.
