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awakeasleep 8 hours ago

That isn’t a significantly different risk from how you are required to use a FDM printer, regardless of circumstance.

Prints regularly take ten+ hours to complete. No one is vigilantly guarding their printer during this time. Fire spreads so quickly in a house that a smoke alarm is often just a signal to get out, you don’t necessarily have the time to grab a fire extinguisher and put it out.

And how big is the risk, really? The materials that you use do not ignite so close to their melting point.

m4rtink 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We built an enclosure fort our printers from a metal storage rack & added active ventilation that suck out any fumes outside the building. Still, you need to physically get there, check the bed is clean & start the print manually.

There are are also regular software checks for overheating or thermistor wiring failing & we know they are there and are enabled as we built the Marlin firmware ourself from source (which is quite easy once you properly configure it). Not to mention we are sure we are the ones in control over the firmware.

We also have a bunch of web cameras watching the printers print that we can monitor remotely.

aaubry 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The main board of my 3D printer short-circuited and caught fire once. I don't know what would have happened if I wasn't around, but I'm not leaving my printer running on its own without supervision.