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Oven
In a perfect world, everyone would use a well-calibrated lab oven capable of reaching temperatures up to 350C. However, a variety of equipment can be used for 3D printing purposes, even as simple as a 55C filament drier.
Common Tasks & Capabilities
Ovens can be used for filament drying, which means they need to get to 55-90c
Ovens can be used for annealing, which means they need to get to 120-200c
Ovens can be used for turning your filament into a melted mess, which can happen up to 400c or even as low as 230.3c
Types of Ovens
Filament Dryers
these aren't good and only go to “55”c
air fryers
surprisingly good
regular ovens
not recommended to cross the streams of cooking and plastic
pid-modified air fryers/convection toaster ovens
you can get really good accuracy from these
real deal lab ovens
really good, probably want to pid-ize it
PID-ifying Ovens
you can interrupt the heater wire and add your own controller in.
be sure to decide on how you want to control it.
Klipper/Kalico
pretty easy, treat it like a heatbed
PID controller
there are COTS items that do just this.