LDO Orbiter v2.5 (standard/mirrored)

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The LDO Orbiter 2 high precision direct drive extruder designed by Dr. Lorincz Rober in cooperation with LDO. The new Orbiter v2.5 is based on the well-known Orbiter v2.0 with a few improvements that extend its extrusion performance even further. Details available here.

Features:

• Shorter drive gears 11mm vs 15 mm
• Hardened filament drive gears
• Weight reduced to 135 grams
• Smaller, more compact dimensions (11.6% shorter)
• New motor design offers 40% increase in pushing force in real printing conditions and much improvedin acceleration performance
• Flipped drive gears – filament path closer to the extruder center for a more balanced design and perfect fit on delta printers as well
• Stainless steel filament exit guide with 0.2-0.3mm clearance to drive gears for best TPU printing experience and extreme wear resistance when using abrasive filaments
• High temperature resistant injected housings, GPA12
• Machined PEEK secondary drive gear sleeve
• Tension mechanism with grab screw design (Captive Grab Screw)
• Mounting screws in line with filament exit path – improving housing stiffness and easier mounting
• Perfectly aligned filament path
• New, smaller and better PTFE input coupler
• Motor position rotated by additional 10 degrees for easier maintenance and assembly
• Filament sensor add on available forauto load and unload button add on feature
• Housing/latch manfucatured by injection molding on standard version, MJF on mirrored version.
• And many more small changes to improve mechanical accuracy and design look

Smaller Dimensions/More Compact

• Reduced the overall size

Filament Path and Mounting Feature

• Filament path closer to the center to facilitate mounting on delta printers and better mounting
• Inline mounting screws with the filament exit paths
• Better housing stiffness and eliminate flexing during high force pushing
• Improved filament path

Extrusion Performance

• Optimized the motor design to maximize its torque in the speed range the extruder needs
• The result is 40% increase of the pushing force in real printing contitions
• Retraction speed up to 120mm/s
• Acceleration up to 3000mm/s

Stainless Steel Filament Exit Guide

• Improves the extruder lifetime when used with abrasive filaments
• Gap between the filament guide and filament pushing gears is about 0.2-0.3mm
• Maximum TPU printing speed – the filament can go only into the hotend, no space to be tangled around the gears

TensionerDesign

• POM washer and stainless steel spring are retained on the screw when the tensioner is removed
• Reduces the possibility to lose the washer and spring

Maintenance

• Motor position rotated by additional 10 degrees for easier maintenance and assembly

Filament Sensor

• New filament sensor design with filament auto load and unload button
• Filament entry lit by colored LED

The Orbiter v2.0 was designed byDr.LorinczRobert, for more information visithttps://orbiterprojects.com/.

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