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I'm sorry, I haven't tested other thermistors yet.

If the DC resistance of the 24V air pump is less than about 7 ohms then you should use either a surge-suppression thermistor (or other surge reduction device) in series with it, or an external mosfet switch that can handle the surge current. You could try a 7 ohm resistor in series, but that may get rather hot and also limit the pump speed.

@DjDemonD:

@MSquared:

Does anyone have a good script to convert KISS's software retraction into hardware retraction? If not I am going to write one in Node.JS and I will share it here.

Why doesn't KISS support hardware retraction!? It's really interesting to me what slicers will do and what they don't. To me firmware retraction seems like the kind of feature that could be implemented in about an hour for pretty much any slicer.

SMH.

I've not used KISS before, is it open source, can you put in an issue in github? I've found most 3d printer firmware teams very responsive to sensible ideas. Failing that other slicers are available many of which can do firmware retraction.

http://www.kisslicer.com not open source and anything but simple. That being said I have pretty much switched away from Simplify3D and started using KISS exclusively. The way it manages profiles for styles, printers, and materials is the best i've seen. Even Simplify3D doesn't support firmware retraction….