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by Kirby64 32 days ago
3D printers aren't the fire hazards of yore. They're quite reliable, fused, with multiple interlocks for various conditions (mainly around heating not matching expected rate) that will kill power.

The main potential problem these days (in my view) is whether a print finishes without crashing or delaminating from the print plate, which also has workarounds... but that's only potential printer damage, not a fire.
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fgfarben 32 days ago
Straight propaganda. Printers have burned down apartments in the last five years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/anycubic/comments/1j4kfsr/guys_just...

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protocolture 31 days ago
When I was at the fruit company I became aware of multiple phones starting house fires. Their lawyers would immediately gag the victims and offer $$$$. IIRC it was close to 1 every fortnight I was there.

I have never had an issue with fire with one of my machines, but I have had 3 or 4 of them fail because they detected inconsistencies with their thermistor, immediately removing voltage from heating elements until they can be convinced that the problem has been resolved.

IIRC Some enders shipped with a faulty marlin firmware that had faulty thermal shut off code, and you used to receive a pamphlet with the printer to update the firmware immediately. I suspect that a lot of people simply did not.

Dont know what this bloke did, but between anycubic and the kind of person who carries a flaming 3d printer in his arms, something went very wrong.

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Kirby64 32 days ago
Anycubic is a poor quality brand that doesn't really go through the engineering effort to design good quality stuff. These types of printers definitely still exist, no doubt.

But, it's not really straight propaganda that the well designed machines (Bambu, Prusa, and many other vendors) don't have these issues.

You can find equally alarming statements about all sorts of other poor quality goods.

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