BCN3D Smart Cabinet
The Smart Cabinet (SC) completes the Epsilon ecosystem, offering seamless integration with your BCN3D Epsilon printers and maximizing their uptime. Its filament humidity control boosts your printers’ performance, keeping your materials in optimal condition, and its uninterruptible power supply protects your work at all times, avoiding the risk of losing your print job due to power outages.
Performance
Supported by our smart drying technology, the humidity-controlled environment has been designed to extend the service life of your materials, protecting the filament and reducing print failure due to moisture, significantly improving your prints’ quality.
Protection
Protect your equipment and your work against power outages thanks to the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). In the event of a blackout of up to 10 minutes, this technology will enable the 3D printer to automatically resume the printing process once the power is back. In case of a longer outage, the UPS will save the printer’s last position, so that you can manually resume the printing process at any time.
Fit them all
Depending on the configuration chosen, the dehumidifier can fit up to 10 small spools (width up to 55mm), 4 big spools (weight up to 2,5kg), or 6 BCN3D Spool Cartridges -or a combination of them! Arrange your filaments in the most convenient way according to your needs, and reduce the need for loading and unloading processes.
Integration
Full 3D printing solution. The Smart Cabinet integrates with your 3D printers, materials, and software, streamlining your workflow thanks to its fast and easy loading of up to ten filament spools and its wheeled structure, which enables effortless transportation across your facilities.
Our Smart Drying Technology
Within our humidity-controlled environment, an automatic drying cycle pushes the air through a compartment filled with alumina, a material that absorbs the moisture.
The desaturated air is pushed back towards the material compartment, free of any moisture that could damage your filaments. This cycle reduces significantly the environment’s relative humidity.
This technology effectively keeps the filament dry, ensuring that the materials maintain their mechanical properties throughout the whole 3D printing process.
Get the best finish
Hygroscopicity, the tendency to absorb moisture, is a great enemy of 3D printing, as it is a prominent characteristic of most thermoplastic materials. Even a small percentage of humidity can negatively affect most filaments and, therefore, the end result of the print job, not only through imperfections which appear on the print surface, but also damaging its mechanical properties. Correctly storing your filament will have, then, a significant effect in the overall quality of your printed parts.
Tested Sample: BCN3D PA (polyamide)
Spool stored 4 days in an environment with high levels of humidity. Over extrusion and poor accuracy. Rough surface, opaque appearance and much stringing are an indication of an irregular extrusion and poor interlayer adhesion.
Spool stored 4 days in a workspace environment with 40-60% relative humidity. Good extrusion and dimensional accuracy, but rougher surface, due to the formation of vapor micro-bubbles.
Spool correctly stored in the dehumidifier of the BCN3D Smart Cabinet. Continuous extrusion without interruptions or formation of vapour bubbles. Smooth surface and no stringing.
Technical specifications
Physical Properties
| Overall dimensions | 690mm (W) x 530mm (D) x 950mm (H) |
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| Weight | 85.9 kg (189.3 lb) |
| Shipping box dimensions | 800mm (W) x 600mm (D) x 1240mm (H) |
| Shipping weight | 100 kg (220.4 lb) |
| Shipping method | Half Europallet |
Electrical Properties
| Output | 230V / 120V / 100V |
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| Input | version 230V: 200 / 208 / 220 / 230 / 240 V AC [50-60 Hz ±10Hz] version 120V: 100 / 110 / 115 / 120 / 127 V AC [50-60 Hz ±10Hz] version 100V: 100 / 110 / 115 / 120 / 127 V AC [50-60 Hz ±10Hz] |
| Power output | 1000VA |
| Data connection | USB connection (Type-A to Type-B cable) |
| UPS topology | Online 1kVA |
| Battery specifications | 3 batteries / 36 VDC x 7Ah |
| Sensors | Internal and external humidity sensor |
Dehumidifier Properties
| Dehumidifier topology | Air tight container with an active humidity controller unit |
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| Dehumidifier system strategy | 4-cycle desiccant and recovery system: First cycle: spool drying Second cycle: stand-by Third cycle: desiccant recovery Fourth cycle: desiccant cool-down |
| Desiccant type | Alumina base desiccant |
| Humidity level | < 40% RH |
| Recovery time (approximate) | 2h |
Material Handling
| Filament diameter | 2.85mm |
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| Compatible spools | With BCN3D Spool Cartridge
Without BCN3D Spool Cartridge:
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| Number of spools | 6 BCN3D Spool Cartridges 10 small spools (350/500/750gr.) 6 medium spools (1kg.) 4 big spools (2.5kg.) |
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