Or you could just use all of the space for a sodium battery and fully charge it as it won’t need long term storage in that state.

Lithium batteries dont like being stored fully charged they will degrade over time.

The volcano was made for high volume prints and has a bigger melt zone. Ideally it’s best for bigger nozzles, high layer hights and faster printing.

If you want to print small and detail a normal e3d or other hotend gives you better control. For smaller characters you can use a standard hotend with a 0.3mm nozzle and switch on arachnid or similar in your slicer. That will give you pretty good results provided your cooling is good.

For calibration its best to watch a few videos as its a lot to discuss over a post like this. But you are looking to do e-steps, flow-rate, temperature tower and retraction. Also know that this may change when you change the filament or speed you are printing at so try and keep things as consistent as possible.

To be honest the Volcano HE is the wrong thing for printing small detail like a DnD character. If you do all the calibrations it can print quite well but will never have the control thats needed for high detail prints. Your best bet is to have an extruder setup that makes it easy to change out the HE. I run both the volcano and normal E3D v6 and swop them out when needed with a EVA extruder.

We are all waiting. Currently a claim has been made and some other claims that it could work both from modeling and replicating the process.

We are waiting for other labs to do proper peer reviews and verify the results. That still won’t mean it does what we hope it does just that the results are the same as what was found in the original claim.

So still a long way away from knowing what is actually possible.

Thanks I’ll give that a try. I also found another post on here about the Manifold engine that’s way faster. Its only in the dev releases at the moment and the under preferences/features/manifold

Somewhere we went from finding those who do wrong and punishing them to censor everything because everyone is bad.