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Testing and configuration
The testing phase of this build is really fairly
straight forward. We loaded the printer with all
our “Top Secret” documents… you
know the type… secret government projects,
or our tinfoil hat patterns, some alien autopsy
documents, and our report cards from the 8th grade….
Anywho, using the switch we installed in the rear
for the solenoid control (remember the glorified
LED flasher?), select the lower tray and press the
power button. If you have tested this right, it
should work without a hitch. Now, depending on how
you constructed your solenoid controller you may
also have a variable resistor instead of a fixed
speed. This is the time to really tune the printer
and make sure you are feeding at a rate the shredder
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tray mode, load the upper tray with up to 100 sheets
of paper and make sure it feeds appropriately. Now,
we found that the feed rate is a bit different with
upper feeder selected, and I am sure this is similar
on other printer types. We used a different resistor
to set the pulse rate a little slower and it worked
well. If you are using the variable resistor model,
now is a great time to give it that little tweak.
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Final Setup
So there is the output. One item we failed to include
in this build was a bagging system. We actually
used a large 60 gallon trash can as ours, with a
sheet of plywood as a table top, and a hole into
which the paper falls. I don’t recommend attaching
a bag to the paper shredder directly, as it does
get rather warm in extended operation. But left
unattended at 25 pages per minute, it really gets
the job done. So you can move on to the important
task of creating more of the documents that will
see the anti-printer in a few more days. |
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