Auto bed leveling k8200

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Hello,

Auto leveling beds are more and more common. I’ve seen a few K8200’s as well with this mod. I also want to add this feature to my printer as well since leveling the bed is just a nightmare sometimes. But I can’t really find a good explanation/tutorial to achieve this (where is the servo connected for example). Is there somebody on this forum that did the mod and can help me out? I already found a good design to mount the servo and switch on thingiverse:

thingiverse.com/thing:262892

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Hello Klucky13,

I extended my K8200 with Auto Bed Leveling.

However, I was modifying a servo to cumbersome. I only use a capacitive sensor type LJC18A3-HZ/BY (around 10 euros). The sensor is connected in place of the Z-stop switch. The level of the sensor switch do I adjust to a transistor. The rest is done by the Marlin firmware.

The bracket for the sensor you can find: thingiverse.com/thing:434665

Sorry, my English is not so good to describe this solution in detail. However, it works very well.

Sincerely
Thomas

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Thanks for the feedback, but I allready ordered a servo. I’m planning to do the mod with the original Z endstop. But to do that I need to find out how I need to hook it up (the servo)

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Ok Klucky13, maybe these links will help you:

youtube.com/watch?v=6msLOR_EfKc
youtube.com/watch?v=YpiOsetkIRg

the principle is explained very well and shown.

Specifically for the K8200 of this principle works, you can find the firmware here:

github.com/ErikZalm/Marlin/blob … /README.md

Thomas