Was tired of having the power sockets in the wall full. With the new printer, I would need 4 slots to power both the printers and both their pi’s running octoprint.
I ended up ordering some buck converters and the things needed to hook them up to the Ender3.
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I got everything soldered together and cranked 24v from the Ender3’s power supply down to 5v so it would not release the magic smoke from the pi
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Got them added to each printer and ended up printing out some cable clips and an enclosure to keep everything nice and tidy.
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Now that both printers have the buck converters I need to add LED strips to the printers, so I can clear up even more space in the power strip.