Five percent done. It’s a 40+ hour print.

I am sick and tired of my workshop vacuum cleaner's filter filling up and ruining performance. It's also an unpleasant job knocking the dust out, then jetting it with compressed air to fully clean it. This (should) just drop 90+% of the dust into an air tight bucket. What a win, if it works!

11% done.

This is a 168MB Gcode file. It's so big it won't load into Fluidd's web progress monitor thingy.

21% done.

ARGH power interruption. I switched on an aircon and the breaker popped. I think we have too many things with slight leakage on one side of our old split load board. Fuck. It’s interrupted the print. The printer is offering to continue where it left off, I’ll be impressed if it really can.

No, it seems the Elegoo Neptune max claims to be able to resume but then makes no serious attempt; not heating anything up. Fuck. And I think I used too much of that reel to start again. Fucking fucking fucking fuck.

@bloor I'd suggest you order a UPS for the printer if it wasn't your current record on deliveries.

@penguin42 @bloor my suggestion would be to angrily rip out all MCBs and replace with RCBOs... :)

@flangey @penguin42 I mean that is what will happen, but also a full consumer unit replacement. It's probably not possible to get new breakers for this one. Plus, optimally it should probably be metal, nowadays, whereas this is plastic.

@bloor @flangey @penguin42 we had a 2011 plastic consumer unit that could not have new circuits added to it because it was too old, not current code. Had to fully replace with a new metal one.

@theolodian @flangey @penguin42 Thing is on the whole I do feel metal is better. Oddly I think the code is nebulous. It says something like "a strong material, e.g. metal" but doesn't actually STIPULATE metal. But every single manufacturer has taken it to mean "metal".

@bloor @flangey @penguin42 the problem was the RCD and the fact that you can’t mix breakers and boxes, the breakers have to be tested and approved for that specific consumer unit.

@theolodian @flangey @penguin42 I am nearly sure the sparks that installed the 32A radial for my heat pump slapped a breaker that didn't match the board in to just get the job done. Not really ideal, but probably also not going to cause a problem either,.