OK, I am going to do this and already ordered the E3D-v6 hotend (Genuine not a copy) and an aluminum mounting plate for the E3d (didn’t want to go to a printed one, it just feels like metal is needed here).
So am I missing anything? it seems pretty straight forward, is the included 100K Semitec NTC thermistor plug & play or do I need to change something in the firmware? I am a hardware and electronics guy and I can barely do software if I have step by step instructions.
Is there a better fan shroud than the one I linked to?
You can use a stock taz Thermistor with the E3Dv6 hotend body if you want to keep it compatable with the stock firmware. It seems to work quite well, and that way you don’t have to even touch the software and can swap your hexagon back in if necessary (change it over to a smaller / larger nozzle, etc.)
I did have to make my own filament fan shroud as both the ones I got on Thingiverse were not the right height. Piercet yours was too high up and could not be bolted to the original mount (I did not want to reprint the entire set you made). The other I got (linked to in first post) was actually too low and it would have crashed into the bed.
Also I ended up printing the E3D mount myself as the nice aluminum one I bought was very sloppy and I didn’t want that. I made my own and made it fit very snug (I posted it on Thingiverse if anybody wants it http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1749234 ).
In the end the only other thing I had to do was run the PID auto tune (it was hard to find instructions but easy to do once I did).
I have only printed a few things so far and all in ABS but I am hoping that PLA has no more heat creep issues.
