3D printer catches fire and sets house on fire
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Consumer 3d printers are relatively new. Safety standards haven't been figured out yet, and I'm afraid humans learn through suffering.
Clever brands will evolve to advertise heating sensors and other safety features. This matters on a heating machine that is expected to be left working for hours without supervision.
This isn't about figuring out how to build a safe 3D printer, we already know how to do that. There are public warnings and analysis of this brand and model from last year. This is not the first time one of their printers has caught on fire. This is about yet another chinese shell corp making deliberately unsafe shit to save $0.05. Muh ancap free market isn't going to save you from psychopathic bug men.
That's why i use european 3d printers
Most 3d printers have a heating sensor. 2 in fact. One for the nozzle and one for the bed. It's how they measure the temperature for the prints
Not that it would have helped for this case. Its supposed to be the ssr that failed, so part of the electronics. Afaict it overheated insanely and caught fire