LDO Monolith CNC Gantry Kit
Coming soon….
What’s this?
The Monolith Gantry is a performance-oriented, configurable gantry platform for Voron 2.4 and Trident. LDO made a high-quality kit with CNC parts for it, which includes everything but the stepper motors and the 9mm belt. Gates 2GT 9mm belt is recommended. 45mm length shaft motors are required, e.g. the LDO-42STH48-2504AH(S45R) (get a 10% discount on the steppers when you buy these together with the monolith kit)
Technical data:
- Drive configuration of the kit: AWD
- Belt width: 9mm
- Material: CNC machined aluminium
Design goals
- The shortest and the simplest belt path possible with AWD compatibility
- The shortest moment arms possible for increased rigidity even when reusing hardware and motion parts
- Double shear steppers and live shaft idlers for higher belt tensions and better reliability
- Good-looking design
Performance expectations
- AWD: It doesn’t come at the cost of adding 20cm belt length and idlers, so input shaper scaling can be close to +100% compared to 2WD due to the truly halved effective belt length. But only when no toolhead or frame bottlenecks are limiting its scaling.
- 9mm belts: Wider belts can offer an additional 50% input shaper scaling on top of what’s described above.
What’s the catch?
- you have to build a well-balanced system: the increased effective belt stiffness with higher-end gantry configurations will amplify toolhead and frame rigidity issues
- Some toolheads are not yet compatible because of the different belt path
- Z-chain relocation or Z-umbilical is needed on Voron 2.4
- Trident rear vertical extrusion brackets have to be rotated by 180 degrees or swapped to regular 2020 brackets based on the gantry configuration
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