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		sp332 on March 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Monoprice drops the price of a dual extrusion 3D p... Would it be easy to run the heat bed from another, smaller power supply, or is that more complicated/expensive than it sounds?

thawkins on April 4, 2015 [–]

No, that is relativly simple, you use an ssr (solidstate relay) driven from the heatbed output of your main board, and hook up the heatbed and second psu on the switched side. its common practice.

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