Anyone tried any other nozzles that are just drop-in replacements?
Other than some good old PID tuning of course!
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The Zero takes standard MK8 nozzles.
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Ahh, thank you! I had wondered, but wasn’t finding any information to confirm.
Also note V6 nozzles work well on my printers that have MK8 heat blocks if you have any laying around.
Note 2 the reverse does NOT work. V6 nozzles are the same length but have more thread and a steeper taper on the tip.
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Is this 0.20mm nozzle really good, and is it compatible with the Zero?
Thanks.
Also, to make the switch between the 0.40mm nozzle and the 0.20mm nozzle back and forth less annoying, I am thinking to get a full 2nd extruder from Sovol.
Would there be any issues? I mean, like if PID calibration is not stored in the extruder MCU but in the Zero’s one, then it would be useless.
I aim for a truly plug’n’play solution, i.e. swap the head and you’re ready, no recalibrations or configurations to do each and every time, short of selecting the right printer profile.
Will it work flawlessly?
Cheers.
Firstly, PTFE begins to decompose at about 260 °C and toxic gasses might result. I’d set a hard limit in printer.cfg of 225 °C if using a teflon coated nozzle.
Do you have experience with 0.2 nozzles? My experience was 5x the first layer issues + 4x print time was not worth the SLIGHT detail improvement. Spending $$ to make the swap easy and then never using the hardware seems a waste.
The heater PID values are written into printer.cfg and are global BUT they are not going to be very different AND the minor temperature ripple (<1 °C) resulting from slight mistuning of the PID values is not really a problem. There are also several other parameters in printer.cfg that should change when the nozzle diameter does. A macro could be written to change nozzles parameters and called with gcode from the slicer start code OR maintain 2 versions of printer.cfg
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Thank you, a lot of good info in your reply.