Installing the Bambu P2S External Exhaust Kit and Venting

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]Hey guys, welcome back. In this video, I'm going to take you through the process and the steps of installing the Bamboo external exhaust kit on a Bamboo P2S printer. So, let's get into it.

[00:00:19]Now, I've been planning on installing one of these exhaust kits on my P2S printers, and I'm going to install it on both of these printers. So, I ended up buying two kits from Bamboo Lab and uh I've had a few viewers in the past talk about, you know, are you concerned with VOCC's when, you know, this plastic is melted? And it is a concern of mine.

[00:00:41]Now, I've heard that PLA and PETG and PCTG are safe in general. They haven't seen any carcinogenic effects from these these compounds. But if you want to work with other engineering filaments that may not be, you know, researched as much or they have smells or they do have known carcinogenic properties, um I think that is a cause for concern. And I do want to print with those filaments. I think it's like ABS or ASA. Um I do print with polycarbonate from time to time. Um nylon could be another one. But regardless, I think that safety is a good reason to to go with um installing one of these kits on your printers. Now, you may not have the P2S. You may have the X2D or um maybe an A1 Mini or an A1, whatever it is. There are ways to probably um move air through the system to an outside source to your to the outside of your home or your facility.

[00:01:41]There are lots of ways of doing it.

[00:01:43]There's there's hoods, there's venting, there's even air filtration systems, which, you know, I'm even considering getting one of those cuz I do work in the basement and I would like to have kind of fresh air in general down there.

[00:01:55]But, um, I ended up getting two kits and I decided I'm going to vent the exhaust through the window down there. I've got a egress window and that's what you're seeing right here is a big printed part.

[00:02:08]This is multiple parts that I glued together. I I printed this with uh Pet G carbon fiber. Really turned out real nice. Glued together real good. And I'll talk about that um towards the end of the video how I did that. Um but for the kit itself, they're 20 bucks a piece on Bamboo Lab. And if you have an old version of the P2S that first came out, it does have a different um back plane to the unit and you have to upgrade for $40 cuz you have to buy this big a new back basically that the newer P2S's have. So that's kind of unfortunate for the first early adopters of the P2S. Um but once you get the kit, it's pretty straightforward. I'll show you guys it right here. Um, the kit comes with the fan that pushes your um your volatile uh exhaust out the out the pipe and then it comes with a little control board and a six pin cable so you can connect it to the printer and then a bunch of little tiny hex screws.

[00:03:12]And it comes with these rubber uh little stickers basically so it can seal um the enclosure. And then if you go on um Maker World, they have a bamboo lab kit that I'll link in the comments below or in the description below. And the kit you have to I printed with PLA carbon fiber. You don't have to use that. You can use PLA or PET G, whatever you want to use. And you have to print print the enclosure. So that holds the fan and the computer. And then there's a top to the enclosure that you got to screw on like a bunch of these little screws. And there's also like some real tiny little parts here you got to connect to this thing. There's six screws here that you got to connect these six little attachments. And essentially what happens is you take this enclosure, you'll stick it to the back of the P2S and slide it into these slots. And that's what these little parts are, these little slot uh widgets essentially. So there's that. And then you have if you want to vent it out to, you know, outside your house, it comes with a 4-in adapter. And I think there might be a 3-in adapter. I'm not sure. I I'm just going with the 4-in adapter. Um I'm sure there's probably other um printable projects out there if you do need a 3-in adapter, but I think the Bamboo Lab one just comes with the 4 in.

[00:04:36]Uh, and then you have to print um these little adapters so that you can clamp the 4 inch tube to this unit here. So, I'm going to go and do that on this second unit here.

[00:04:50]And I'll probably timelapse this um because this does take a while. Now, if you're going to get this kit, I definitely recommend I'm not sponsored by this company or I don't even have an Amazon affiliate. I just found these um through another 3D printing uh video.

[00:05:06]These little Allen wrench uh screwdrivers. You're definitely going to want one of these. Even if you don't, go with this kit. Uh if you're doing maintenance on your 3D printer, I just had a a nozzle or an extruder get clogged with PCTG. And uh these are definitely critical to unscrew all the little screws on the extruder to get to the clo, pull it out, and then put it all back together. You're going to want a kit. These I think these are like 10 bucks, 14 bucks. I will link it in the description below so you have a reference for these. But for this kit, you only need this uh 1.5 mm um screwdriver. So Allen wrench screwdriver. So I'm going to put this together and then we'll take this unit here. I'll show you how it fits in the window.

[00:05:52]Um, before I do start to put this together, I will mention this kit um or this uh project um this modeling project I found on Maker World again. And um it it was really good. It's it basically slides into the window and the window goes right in this little crevice here.

[00:06:12]Now, I did have to make an adjustment to it. I printed a test sample. This was the original sample and it was too wide.

[00:06:20]It was really loose here. And then this this side was too wide as well. It didn't fit into the uh cavity of the window. So I had to go into Blender. I added 3 mm to this unit here. And then I chopped off a little bit from this unit here. So overall, I just made a slight change to the model on both sides. And this fit like a glove. It's really tight, which is what you want to seal up your window if you are going to go with a window. Now, I could have drilled a hole into the side of my house, but I just didn't feel like doing that. And um the window, it's kind of nice because I can take this out of the window and close it and lock it up for security reasons, but you know, it is what it is.

[00:07:03]I think this will work out pretty well, and I just didn't want to do more construction. So, I'm going to get started here. Again, I did finish one of these units last night because I want to take my time. time. I knew this was going to take me a long time uh to figure this out and read through the instructions. Now, the kit uh in Maker World from Bamboo Lab, it's real detailed. All you got to do is take your time, scroll through it, and um you know, you got to install these little rubber gaskets here and then the fan and everything. And I'll let you know what kind of problems I had as well. Um but overall, this was a pretty simple kit to to to put together. So, let's go ahead and do that. And uh I'll kind of timelapse this and uh maybe I'll talk in between. We'll see what happens. But the first thing you got to do is you got to get your little screws out. These are the tiniest screws. And I did lose one last night. So they're easy to lose. I definitely recommend putting this together on a bench, you know, that you don't lose this stuff. So let's see here. Uh Yeah. So, it is kind of uh marked off pretty well and it's kind of hard to mess it up. Uh there's like three locations here that only certain parts will fit. And then there's these two corner parts here and here. And then there's a center part there. And so the two corners, I don't want to crack it. It's easy to crack PLA or any plastic for that matter.

[00:08:46]You really want to get the screw on the screwdriver first, then position it on the on the part, and then you can put it together.

[00:09:02]And again, I guess if you crack it, you can always reprint it, right?

[00:09:09]there. Okay. Get another screw on.

[00:09:17]And then there is I think a little difference I think to one of these.

[00:09:25]Yeah, there's like one that's just a little bit fatter that fit that fits in this front spot here.

[00:09:35]Yeah.

[00:09:36]And I'll show you after I get it on.

[00:09:42]All right, there we go. So, that's the first side. As you can see, there's three parts here that are pointing that way to the outside of this enclosure.

[00:09:54]And then on this side, the parts point the same direction. So, they're all going to point in the right direction.

[00:10:01]And you know, it kind of like prevents you from messing it up because these are uh the print is formed uh with a template essentially to where you kind of it's hard to screw it up, which is good.

[00:10:38]There we go.

[00:10:42]Now I've rearranged my office.

[00:10:45]Um, I had these two bookshelves over there. I was just ready for a change and clean this all up. Got some books up there, some lenses mixed in with the Legos. So, I'm really happy with how it turned out. I got a new rug. I'm standing now. I can I can work a lot better. Um I've got a nice window view now. I'm not looking at the wall. Just nice little upgrades just to, you know, enjoy my office life a little bit more.

[00:11:17]I think I might get like another tiny desk over there for like when the kids because I pick my kids up, you know, before I'm done working and um they've got homework now. So, um they can work alongside with me. All right, so here's the second side. Okay, if you can see there, these three are all all these are pointed in the same direction. That's cuz it's going to go in the printer and slide in basically. All right, so that's done. And now we got to take this long piece here. If I remember right, I'm pretty sure I start.

[00:11:54]Yeah, I start basically on this end.

[00:11:58]Wrap it around all the way around. You seal this. It's like a gasket. And then there'll be another piece that you add over here. Okay. So, let's go ahead and do that. This does take a little bit of time. You definitely want to have some time set aside if you're going to go through this exhaust kit. Um, you got to set aside the time if it's worth it to you. Yeah. And there's like kind of a little notch here that you start on because it meets up at this other gasket.

[00:12:34]You just kind of get it there. Good.

[00:12:40]It's got a little sticky on the back, you know. All right. I take a little bit off at a time.

[00:12:52]Good.

[00:12:55]So, you see the little rubber gasket right there? That's what's going to seal your system so that you don't have, you know, volatile plastic um flying through the air. Right. All right. And then they've got another one cut like this.

[00:13:14]And so that goes on just this little section here.

[00:13:24]All right. So that top part is done and ready. And then take this part that's printed and if I remember right. Oh yeah. So it came with like these really small pads that you want to stick at the bottom of this fan enclosure because it says if you don't your fan will be loud and rattly.

[00:13:52]So I don't want that. I want it to kind of be smooth.

[00:13:57]So, you got to take these little stickers off and stick it down at the bottom.

[00:14:03]Now, I probably, you know, I could have printed this in like a uh maybe a uh a white. It could have contrasted better for this video, but I I don't know. I kind of like the black look on the back of my printer. So, I went with PLA carbon fiber black. And I don't know why. I just like the carbon fiber.

[00:14:25]probably ruined one of my nozzles printing that thing. I had the um I had the nozzle clogged or the hotend clogged. Sorry, I keep saying nozzle, but the hotend was clogged um and filament wouldn't go through. And I'm pretty sure maybe it was because I printed that whole thing on that one printer. So, be aware of that. You know, if you're going to print with like carbon fiber or glass infused filament, uh maybe dedicate a hotend to um to that type of stuff. That way you know which ones you filled up with that stuff with the carbon fiber. All right. So, you can't really see that stuff, but basically the fan just sets in there on top of the these four foam pieces that I put in there. And so the next step, I want to make sure I'm doing this right.

[00:15:20]Let's see here. Going back to Bamboo Studio. I mean, I did this last night, but you know, you forget kind of Oh, yeah. There is a piece here. I don't want to forget.

[00:15:31]Yeah. So, there's another gasket that goes inside the enclosure.

[00:15:44]If I can get the sticker off.

[00:15:49]They They don't make this easy, do they?

[00:15:53]Okay, there we go.

[00:15:57]And it goes just right above what looks like these two Ethernet ports. right above them cuz there's holes here. So, they want to kind of they want you to seal it as best as possible, you know, wherever there's any any gaps, potential gaps, that's probably pretty good. Okay, you might be able to see it in there.

[00:16:27]Yeah, you can kind of see it right there. Okay. And then, okay, after that, then we prepare the fan with the control board. Okay. You want to connect this first and then set it in the enclosure. That's what the the manual says. I want to go by what the manual says.

[00:16:50]There we go. Just snaps together just like that. Okay.

[00:16:57]And then when you place this in here, it spe it specifies that I mean first you probably want to lay the the control board down where these two Ethernet ports are. Okay. Kind of like that. So you get that down in there. And there's three screws that you're going to want to use to mount this board in. The fan just sets in there. There's no screws that the fan um gets connected to.

[00:17:27]All right. So, let's get at least one of these screws ready for this little module or control board.

[00:17:37]So small. Okay, this is how I lost the one last night.

[00:17:44]So, I was trying to get this control board in and it went flying somewhere.

[00:17:55]All right, got that one in. There two more screws. I might as well get them both in.

[00:18:04]See, did the same thing last night. But I was sitting in a chair and uh I don't know. I went and tried to get it out of the enclosure and it just flew somewhere. So, it'll probably get vacuumed up in my master bedroom.

[00:18:21]All right, there we go.

[00:18:30]Luckily, I don't have little kids anymore.

[00:18:34]They're going to find this and put them in put it in their mouth.

[00:18:38]All right.

[00:18:43]All right. So, there you should see your six pins aligned with those two holes.

[00:18:49]And then when you place the fan in, you want to make sure that that the sticker side is facing up. The blank side should be facing down on the great on the little air duct grading.

[00:19:02]So you get that in there.

[00:19:07]Okay. And then there's a little tiny wire um uh duct work or I don't know what you would call it. Cable cable routing. Yeah, cable routing. That's what it's called. That you can place this cable in just so that you know it's not flying around in there as your fan is spinning.

[00:19:28]Come on.

[00:19:32]There. Got them. Took a little bit. See that little cable route there? You definitely want to use that. I mean, you don't want stuff flying around. All right. Let me remember what was going on here. All right. After that then yeah these tabs okay these tabs should fa the the tabs here that are going facing this way should face towards the control board.

[00:20:02]So you simply get this all connected together.

[00:20:13]should be flush. This whole top There.

[00:20:44]There. As good as I'm going to get it.

[00:20:49]All right. Let me look at this again.

[00:20:52]The four There's four screw. Sorry. Four screws on the top side of this.

[00:20:58]Yeah. And then there's two kind of thick gaskets here that go on this side and this side. And then there's two thin ones going on the long side here. And I think these are the same.

[00:21:16]Yeah, they're the exact same.

[00:21:28]Now, one more. And then I do this color.

[00:21:43]All right, that's all done. So, nice little rubber or vinyl gasket. I'm not exactly sure what material this is, but hopefully it should seal off this fan unit for for the printer.

[00:21:58]And then I got to put this together. So, there's three connections here.

[00:22:04]And then it comes with these little um there's a little like clamps essentially. So, there's a little one and then a big side. Again, it requires one, two, three * two is six.

[00:22:21]And times another two. There's like 12 screws you got to screw in here. Like I said, you're going to want the one of these Allen wrench screws, or else you'll be here forever with a traditional Allen wrench.

[00:22:41]And you don't want this too tight cuz this has to move up and down. And then this side connects to this guy right here.

[00:23:04]Now, it came with three large screws.

[00:23:08]these black ones. I think that maybe that's for the uh if you have the older back plane or rear panel. Sorry, not back plane. I don't know why I'm saying back plane. Rear panel. If you have the older rear panel, maybe that's what these larger back screws are for. I'm not sure yet. Maybe I'm missing something.

[00:23:29]All right, there's one. So, as you can see there, it's like a little clamp that you can clamp down. And this connects to the basically like this. So, of course, I've got two printers.

[00:23:49]In total, I would say that this project I think I'm putting that on wrong. This project probably is costing me 40 plus that filament was $30 for the whole 34 35 for PET G carbon fiber. Um, and then the PLA carbon fiber.

[00:24:09]So, 40 plus 35, that's around 80 plus probably another couple kilograms of filament, not kilograms, but grams of filament for the PLA. So, probably about a h 100red bucks, I would say. I had to buy some venting, which was $16, and some clamps. Um, so yeah, it's around $1, $120 for this project for two printers. You know, if you have just one printer, yeah, you're probably looking at 60 bucks at the end of the day.

[00:24:40]Not too bad. You know, if you're concerned with these chemicals and you got you got kids like I do. My daughter was down in my office or my workshop finding prints on the computer down there.

[00:24:54]Um, I don't want her breathing stuff. If if I've got print prints going on, especially if I do end up getting into ABS or ASA type of products, I think it's good to be be cautious. All right.

[00:25:10]And the cool thing is, too, if if I ever do develop a print farm, um, I'll know how this is this works.

[00:25:18]So, it's always good to learn, you know.

[00:25:22]Now, I do have one question.

[00:25:25]Um, maybe one of you guys can answer it.

[00:25:28]I don't know. I'm going to find out. Is that since I've got two printers, and I'll show you guys my ventilation setup.

[00:25:36]Can if I'm not printing something, can the other printer or if I'm printing something with one printer and not with the other printer, can this the printer that's not printing, can it just run these fans to continue the the um pressure um the ventilation going out into the uh the outside world.

[00:26:02]So, that's something I got to explore and figure out.

[00:26:10]All right, see where we're at. We're at 30 minutes, so not too bad in real time. And it's all set.

[00:26:26]And then let's see here.

[00:26:31]Oh, wrong side.

[00:26:34]There we go.

[00:26:46]There we go. See, those just snap on.

[00:26:49]Cool. That's all done. I can connect my six pin connector and get ready to install this on the printer. So, I'm going to go ahead and uh bring this all downstairs. I'll I'll take you guys down there with me and we'll and I'll show you guys the setup down there and we'll start we'll get one of these things hooked up. All right, guys. Now that I'm done assembling the exhaust kit, I'm going to show you what I've got going on here and how I'm thinking about things. So, the egress windows over here, and then I've installed a 4-in vinyl uh exhaust tube down this wall to this printer, and I've got a T up here. And then it's going to this printer. Okay. Now, the tea I printed in PLA. I found that kit online on Maker World, and I'll put that in the description below. And then I've got these little 4-in um hooks that will hold up this tubing. Again, I printed those in PLA carbon fiber, and I'll put that kit in the uh description as well.

[00:27:50]So, I've got like five links in this description because I want to give you guys all the resources I found uh to help me out. But, you know, you can find this stuff by searching on Maker World.

[00:28:00]It is pretty easy. Um, I'll show you how the window system works. So, basically, I've got this egress window, and there's a cavity here. Okay? And that's where this is going to fit in.

[00:28:17]And then this fits around the window, this section here. And then there is one more um kit that this links to. Okay.

[00:28:25]this whole kit um is this coupler system. Okay, it's another project. I'll link it in the description below. And the coupler I had to buy I think they're right here. Um these little 2x10 mm magnets, these round magnets. And when you go to install the magnets, you want to take don't install this coupler on this unit here. um because you're going to need like pliers or something to squeeze these magnets in. They don't um they fit perfectly, but you got to squeeze them in a little bit. And then on this side on the hose, it's the same thing, but the other side with magnets. So, when I get this in, now this is a tight fit. So, um it does take a little bit of wiggling to get it in there, but it's in. Then I just hold it here. And then, you know, you got to kind of line it up a little bit. There we go.

[00:29:24]Yeah, it's in. Yep. Okay. I can only feel air a very tiny bit here and down here. There's tiny gaps, which I could seal this up. No, no problem there. So, then you got your other 4-in coupler.

[00:29:40]And there we go. Pretty cool. I I love this stuff, man. I love making stuff with the 3D printers and making the magic happen.

[00:29:50]So, so that's all done. I've got the line going there. Now, I got to take essentially See if I can We'll kind of vlog this out a little bit. So, I got to take this guy and hook it up to this, you know, and I kind of had this pre-built. I was testing things out last night. So, all I have to do now is just tighten this up.

[00:30:23]And so, what what I was saying before when I was upstairs is um you know, these are both connected. So, if I was exhausting um VOCC's through this printer, printer number one, will it go down here and into this area and through this printer?

[00:30:44]That's the question I have, I guess. So, we'll see. You know, I you gotta learn.

[00:30:49]And maybe I have to put like a valve up here. I don't know. Or a second whole line out to the window. I'm not exactly sure. But I'm just going with this design for now. And, you know, I'll I'll figure it out as I learn through the bamboo software um that's on the printer because these kits are built for the printer. There's software on the printer that um once you connect this, it'll enable a feature in the Bamboo um ecosystem that you can enable venting.

[00:31:18]So, which I still need to learn a little bit about, too. This goes this way. I want to make sure I go the right way.

[00:31:29]There. Just got to tighten this up.

[00:31:39]All right.

[00:31:41]Don't want to go too hard. I don't want to break this. Then I'd have to reprint it. But you don't want to go too loose or else it's just going to fall right off. All right. Now, on to the printer.

[00:31:52]I haven't done this yet, so this will be interesting.

[00:31:57]All right. I got to I got to empty my poop shoot anyways. I got a bunch of nards in there. Been doing my printing.

[00:32:03]All right. So, let's get this out a little bit so you guys can see what's going on.

[00:32:08]All right. So, there's there's a little sticker right here, right here that you take off and then this slides on. So, let's go ahead and do that.

[00:32:34]Now, I kind of want to like save this sticker. I guess you could just put like tape over it or something. All right.

[00:32:42]Yeah, cuz maybe I don't want to use this. I don't know. We'll see. All right. So, I think So, you see here there's these slots.

[00:32:51]Okay. And so, this should just slide right on there. and then push to the side.

[00:33:03]Let's see.

[00:33:11]I think it's on there pretty good.

[00:33:16]Yeah.

[00:33:18]I don't want to break it. Okay.

[00:33:22]Well, it's not coming off. Feels like it's sealed.

[00:33:28]So, I'm going to go with it. Let's see if I don't Oh, you know what? I'm going to have to print a new poop shoot because Yeah, it doesn't that doesn't fit. That's okay. No big deal. The poop can just go on this little countertop.

[00:33:42]No big deal there. Oh, and then you got to connect your six pin connector, which let's see. I got the AMS here. I think this stuff all like um what do you call it? Like it's a kind of a distributed network system. Like if you connect this here, I think if I connect the AMS here, it it's all like interconnected.

[00:34:04]So like the printer will recognize that.

[00:34:07]So let's just see here. The printer is on.

[00:34:11]Okay, let's see what it says here as far as what's going on here. Let me get you guys on a tripod.

[00:34:21]Yeah, the AMS is back up and running.

[00:34:25]So, let's see here. Okay, so under settings, print options, you'll see this purify air at print end.

[00:34:40]You can check check that and click exhaust. That's one option.

[00:34:47]And then um you can go to air management and heating. And if you want to manually turn the exhaust on, you can turn it on.

[00:35:03]Oh, I hear it. Sweet.

[00:35:06]That's working now. I wonder too if you would feel it in this printer.

[00:35:17]I don't feel it coming through. So, that's kind of interesting.

[00:35:23]Let's see if I feel it coming out of this.

[00:35:27]Yep, I feel it. Cool.

[00:35:31]That's pretty neat. So, if I got them both going, then I'm definitely going to feel the pressure. There we go. So, I think that's it. And then I read on the wiki that um for like PLA, oops, sorry about that.

[00:35:47]For PLA, PETG G, I think it starts at like a certain percentage.

[00:35:53]Um and then um it increases the percentage over time, I think. Um but for and I'm going to have to play around with this cuz it could affect my prints, especially PCTG. That that bed's got to stay at 90°. Um, so there there can be some things that that are affected um when you print with certain materials.

[00:36:16]It says in the wiki that with um uh with ABS, let me see here. Here's here's what it says. It says here when printing low temperature materials such as PLA, TPU, PVA, the external exhaust fan starts automatically, initially operating at a minimum speed of 30%. The speed increases synchronously with the rise of the chamber temperature to enhance cavity heat dissipation. When printing high temperature materials such as ABS and and PA nylon, the exa the external exhaust fan is turned off by default to avoid reducing the internal cavity temperature only and only supports manual activation. So if you're printing with certain materials, you got to manually activate it, right? So, um, you know, you got to play around with it.

[00:37:07]You know, maybe you start at 10 20% of fan speed, right? Or you go as high as you as you want depending on how your print quality is coming out. If you're seeing any warping, things like that, you probably got to lower the fan speed because it's getting too cool um for that material uh to print effectively.

[00:37:26]So, very interesting. I'm excited to kind of use it, get started with it. I might do a um an ABS print. I do have one roll of that. I might buy some ASA just to play around with it to feel the the material to see how it works. Um but I'm pretty happy with how this set up. I think it looks, you know, pretty decent.

[00:37:46]Now, you know, the jury is still out to where um I don't know, uh if I am going to smell any of this stuff like ABS or a ASA or whatever. I haven't printed with those yet, but we'll see what happens.

[00:38:00]I'll let you guys know if um if this system's working out well and if I if I recommend it. I still don't know yet.

[00:38:07]So, the jury is still out. I got to print more poop shoots. So, that's probably the first thing I'm going to print to test the system out. So, wish me luck. So, anyways, if you guys could like and subscribe to the channel, I'd appreciate it. Take a look at my previous video and everyone have a great