Creality, worst customer support

[Demon]

...do fill hole with silicon heatsink compound before inserting thermistor...

Now why hasn't creality ever suggested that to me. Not a question really.

Thanks for that, I have a tube coming in on Monday. I already have another hot-end / thermistor assembly beside the printer.

[Demon]

Did I mention that I bricked BOTH the mainboard and display cause their firmware upgrade instructions were garbage? I just left the new ones I bought at whatever version they were at.

I was forced to upgrade again now, but at least their instructions worked this time.

[richard]

the motherboards are just arduino mega2650 dressed up a bit with a nice cnc coat on, you can recover them using another arduino as a icsp programmer.
i used my old mboard as a grbl core xy laser engraver just for fun, since i upgraded mine with the silent stepper drivers fancy pants board. its amazingly quiet now. its not improved the prints but they get there quietly

[Demon]

The Ender is relegated to small jobs, if I fix it.

Just got an Anycubic Kobra 2 Max, 420x420x500 and goes at ludicrous speed of 500.

This was out the box with no tweaking, must have been around 100, twice as fast as my Ender.

[Ioannis]

Wow, this is speedy!

Happy printing!

Ioannis

[Ioannis]

Just saw this https://eu.store.bambulab.com/en-gr/products/a1

Although it has smaller printing area than Anycubic, it can color print and also has a nice feature for fuzzy printing, getting rid of the layer lines with most 3D printers.



Ioannis

[richard]

just tried the "fussy" outer shell option on my ender5+, i like it and it hardly slows a print at all . i never knew it was there until now
thanks for that, its a nice way to disguise the layers. i wonder why its in the "hidden" options for the slicer