How to make sure your 3D printer won't catch fire!

Basic thermal protection is a feature that has been available in the standard 3D printer firmwares for a long time and it does a great job of protecting its heater elements when the temperature readings stop making sense. But as it turns out, some manufacturers don't bother to test that they are actually working. So here's how you can test you own machine - it only takes a couple of minutes! Read the article to this video here: https://toms3d.org/2021/08/20/test-yo... Assets in the thumbnail by Xenodora, AntumDeluge, MrBeast, Spring, Impulsive22 and kungfu4000 via https://opengameart.org/ 🩵 Support the channel by shopping through my affiliate links Buy Bambu Lab printers and printer accessories https://go.toms3d.org/Bambu Buy Prusa Research printers and printer accessories https://go.toms3d.org/prusa/ Tools I use: 🔩 Onshape Cloud-native CAD (free for Makers) https://onshape.pro/ThomasSanladerer 🎵 Epidemic Sound for video music (30-day trial) https://share.epidemicsound.com/MadeW... 📷 Camera gear and recording equipment (not free, unfortunately) https://toms3d.org/my-gear 🎧 Check out the Meltzone Podcast (with CNC Kitchen)!    / @themeltzone   👐 Enjoying the videos? Support my work on Patreon!   / toms3dp