Heated bed on the ZIM

[KingMartin]

…solved the issue with wiring my own heated printbed: see

Create your own heated printbed!

Hi, You can pretty easy create your own heated printbed for your ZIM - its still “work in progress” (I wired everything at the moment but the magents are still in the delivery truck… I’ll post the progress when finished but if you’re experienced with open source pritners you can already start to do your own following the picture below. (Yes, you can also operate your printbed without the relais but then 12V and about 10A (!!!) will run through your electronic board - thi s has caused so many …

[BDub]

Good work @KingMartin!

I looked at your edits and I think it would be beneficial for someone to follow your progress, and learn from how you went along discovering things. You can just keep replying to your original thread, that’s not a big deal. Think of a thread like a blog that you are updating. For now I’ll lock this thread to make sure replies go to the other one.