Original Beacon 3D Surface Scanner

Original Beacon 3D Eddy current surface scanner for 3D printers:

• Native displacement output – no z motion necessary for sensing
• Scan mode mesh – dense grid sampling in a matter of seconds
• Low thermal drift – minimized by design, active compensation for everything else
• Beacon Contact (NEW!) – touch probing with TrueZero technology Auto Z calibration.

RevH:

• High Temp Accelerometer – measurement up to 100ºC, standby up to 115ºC

Printer Compatibility:

• Printers: Any voron printer. Except switchwire.
• Firmware: Works exclusively with Klipper.
• Connection: USB to Single Board Computer. You can connect Beacon directly to the Nitehawk 36 built in USB HUB. Please don’t forget to buy our Beacon to Nitehawk36 cable kit.
• Bed: Any aluminium bed with a magnetic sticker and pei spring steel sheet. Conductive surface or substrate, 400um or thicker. Bare steel, WHAM BAM, PEI coated or laminated steel, etc.
• Won’t Work: Marlin firmware. Beds employing large or oversized fixed magnets (such as Prusa Bed, mandala rose, etc) is not recommended.
• Not recommended: Using a BTT Pi or BTT Manta board with the Beacon without an inline hub voids the warranty. If you have this setup please consider using a nitehawk36 toolhead.

Includes:

• 1x Custom USB cable 1.8M lenght
• 1x Beacon board (main PCB, sensing PCB, headers, cable connector)

Variations:

This is important for mounting Beacon to your tool head appropriately. Check connector angle.

• Normal: connector pointing vertically (when in doubt select this version)
• Low Profile: connector pointing horizontally