@o_lampe said in Dual extruder orbiterv2:
@deckingman That's right. IIRC your melt chambers were connected through narrow channels which reduce the back-pressure effect. I guess the 'E3D cyclops' works the same . But a 'Diamond'-style hotend would have only one melt chamber....
As you wrote" It depends"
No, actually a Diamond also has multiple melt chambers. The brass cone sits below the heat breaks so anything inside that cone becomes molten and remains molten when the filaments are combined just before the nozzle tip. If you set the mixing ratio to equal percentages for each input, then each individual filament travels at a correspondingly lower speed (so 33% for 3 input Diamond and 20% for a 5 input). So not only do you have a greater surface are over which to conduct heat, but each filament spends longer in each melt chamber before it exits the nozzle. The net result is a vastly increased melt rate.