[ELECTRON] Proposed new club + Arduino meet up

[Kieran Wyse]

Hi Clive

I am happy to go with whatever is the consensus.

If we do go down the pcb route do we buy one or can we make one ourselves?

Kieran

On 23 January 2012 18:51, Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think glass is often used because it's a good balance between laying
> down the first plastic and then separating the finished object
> afterwards.  It's also a good insulator, so that allows the heating
> element to be placed in direct contact.
>
> The PCB based heating plate looks neat.  By specifying a standard
> copper thickness and fine tuning the track width and length they seem
> to have come up with a very simple and consistent heating plate.
>
> On 23 January 2012 17:45, Kieran Wyse <kieranwyse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is very likely we are going to make a heated bed( please forgive my
> > stupidity if this is not the top and bottom plates). Brian has suggested
> he
> > may be able to get hold of some metal sheet but for best results, I have
> > read, that a glass plate on top is good.
> >
> > I don't think a decision has been made but it is likely we will go the
> > thermistor route copper wire for the heat bed. If you had some lying
> around
> > it would force us to make a decision:)
>
>
>
> --
> Clive Mitchell
>
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