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Thermal Runaway Test #2

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Drives a 3D printer heater nonstop until the aluminium heater block melts, cited to show why firmware thermal runaway protection must be enabled.

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Let's look at a Thermal Runaway Test (#2) performed by one Chris Bate.

user77232 on 3dprinting.stackexchange.com, Mar 2019. CC BY-SA.

Note that Aluminium (which your heater block is made of) melts at 660 °C, so your most worrying item should be the block, which will melt, drip and melt anything below if this goes on for a couple seconds like seen here

Trish on 3dprinting.stackexchange.com, Nov 2019. CC BY-SA.

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