[Help me with a Guide to install MK3 bed with external PSU]

Vertex 3D Printer Vertex - Assembly and user manual
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Sorry for starting another thread about heated beds, but I have read so many topics and postings about this that my head is about to spin of of my body, literally…

I really do appreciate all other postings and all the helpful people that takes their free time to help us that need help. But… The way I feel IMHO is that most “Guides” and threads are for those who already knows a lot of how this works, though I have never found a complete instruction on how to do this. All I have found is bits and pieces of almost every separate connection. (Missing how to, where from and what, to connect to the mainboard for instance)

If somebody how actually knows how the following setup should be connected could spare a couple of minutes to explain this from the beginning it would make me the happiest guy alive.

What I would really want is a step by step guide that explains exactly where all the cables an connections should be put together and if you need to change in any .ini file or similar in repetier software.

My parts that I have purchased, all from reprap.nu:
RepRap ALU Heatbed MK3 $16.67 http://reprap.me/heatbed/alu-241.html
Thermistor 100K SMD $4.17 http://reprap.me/heatbed/alu-241.html
Heatbed Thermal Insulator 200 $7.33 http://reprap.me/heatbed/alu-241.html
Power Expander $17.42 http://reprap.me/heatbed/power-expander.html
External PSU This one I all ready had, a 24V 240W.

Maybe a suitable start would be something like this:

Connect external PSU to powerexpander marked ‘in’
Connect powerexpander marked ‘out’ to heatbead MK3 as shown on reprap’s site (12 or 24V)

And so on…

How to fasten the heatbed and so on maybe can be another topic? Or part 2 of this guide, part 3 could be different ways to print, using kapton, buildtac and tape etc. -Just thinking out loud here.

Have a nice day and happy printing, I haven’t printed a thing in two days now :frowning:

Regards
Mike

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Hi you might have a look to the wiki. Almost everything is explained.

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Ahhhh, that’s more like it. Those last pictures explaining the connections to the mainboard weren’t there the last time I checked.

Thank you! My day just got a lot brighter :wink:

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You’re welcome.

[quote=“tmicke”]Ahhhh, that’s more like it. Those last pictures explaining the connections to the mainboard weren’t there the last time I checked.

Thank you! My day just got a lot brighter ;)[/quote][quote=“tmicke”]Ahhhh, that’s more like it. Those last pictures explaining the connections to the mainboard weren’t there the last time I checked.
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You ask, we do :wink:

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Nice, me like :wink:

I’ve read a little about this Wiki your setting up, it’s a really great initiative witch I hope gets all the attention and appreciation it deserves!
If you would be granted permission to have that wiki-link as a sticky through out the forum it would be a great asset for a lot of people, me included of course.

If anybody is interested in a box, container, holder (don’t really know what to call it) to the power expander from reprap.me i uploaded one here: http://www.123dapp.com/123D_Design/Powerexpander-from-reprap-me/3565689

Have a really nice weekend!
/Mike