TMOTW #5 Terminate and fuse your damn machines...

This aint really gonna be very detailed as im pretty sick at the moment. There are plenty of youtube videos on this. But im going to give you some head way.

Think it won't happen to you? Well it happened to me. I setup my tarantula just like everyone else. Hotend fan was going to mains input. Well... i had ordered several cheap aliexpress fans. Turned out. It was a bad fan. I went to the electrical engineering subreddit to figure out exactly what was the cause. This wasnt like a fan going to a computer. It was faulty and tried to pull amps out the ass. Wire went up in smoke and arced on the motor wire it crossed and melted.

Is it really a good idea to be running these without fusing? No... It doesnt even take a lot to do such a thing but patience. If its pulling a lot of amps and/or in a cable chain/moving wires. FUSE IT. Fuse the hotend, fuse the bed, fuse the power supply, fuse the connection going to the main board. Add a mosfet/relay!

• Search youtube on proper termination and ready up your machine to print out a break out box.

• Buy a terminator set with crimper. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K7GRCI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

• Buy fuse blocks or print in line connectors. This is how mine is setup.

• This is a genius one. An inline fuse setup. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1787609

• This is a 8 way fuse block. Meaning one in one out for each point. I use this on the board area.
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012CQG2MO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

• I use one of these for the break out box. This is one in 8 out. So fans, touch sensors, leds and things like that can go from this one. things that are always 12v and can share. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QMTAZ1W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

• Fuse set https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XY2V532/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Sorry, this isnt much for a write up. Im pretty sick at the moment. But this gets you in the right direction. And dont forget to shrink wrap the connector sleeves. Also i should mention there is a great assortment of fuse blocks using spade or female connectors on thingiverse. Some even better than the blocks from amazon. But really... just fuse the machine. Take yourself out of the scenario.

Edit: Mine is probably excessive, but the high amp areas should be your focus.