Can you let us know how you get on with the replacement fans please? If they are any good the model numbers would be handy as well. The noise is the only thing I can complain about on my Centauri Carbon and I have stuck it in a cupboard where I can't hear it so much for the time being.My new printer which is replacing an A1 mini arrived. The mini was great but I was having issues with PET-G adhesion due to warping from draughts etc, I thought about building an enclosure for it but by the time that was done, it would be bigger than just buying one of these. Printing with the enclosure closed on this and I now have 0 issues and can lower the bed temp by 20c.Its a lot louder than the mini but replacement fans are on the way from China to cut the noise down, so far I'm really happy with it for the money.
I was worried about losing the bambu app for remote monitoring but I've discovered and set up OctoEverywhere and it's a more than suitable replacement.
Wow. If i was in the market now for a printer i would just stick with bamboo. Yes its double the price but piece of mind
I’m tempted but I’m not sure I’d get it past Mrs Sk8
To be fair they have plenty of issues of their own aswell
Mrs Rilot was all for it. She knows how much I love my printers.I’m tempted but I’m not sure I’d get it past Mrs Sk8
Are these good now? I seem to remember there being issues with the sunlu driers that they didn't really dry properly, at best they just kept dry filament dry. Ive just seen the AMS 2 which looks pretty good but I already have an AMS for my x1c so don't know which is worth it. I'd been using the oven on the warming setting overnight up to now.
I've not even heard PETG-GF was a thing, sounds perfect.I wish I could tell you that you were alone in that but I have what is probably approaching a collection:
ABS: Had to have some now I have a printer capable...and have not yet found a use where something else isn't easier and at least as good.
ASA: Bought because it was better than the ABS I probably only bought because I'd previously been told I couldn't print it. Have printed this and it's a pain...but I needed the colour!
ABS-GF: Solves most of the problems of ABS and is fantastic...and still in the box because then along came PETG-GF and it's easy, cheap, UV resistant, fairly heat resistant (compared to PLA), strong and prints beautifully.
I printed some PLA the other day because I need to prototype a piece of something - it's the model functionality that's important, the print is then disposable (unfortunate but better than wasting the entire thing out of solid acrylic). I'd been telling someone it was easier for beginners and yet it peeled off the bed, it warped, there were hull lines and the entire thing was an embarassment. To be fair, it could be PETG residue on the bed that'll need washing with Fairy to remove that caused it....but then I went back to PETG-GF for a storage box and it's perfect - like faultlessly so. Well, admittedly it was the 2nd go because I ran out about 15mm up the print. Another spool in the AMS to continue to you say? Yes, absolutely. I checked it at around 15mm high and went to bed (yes, I know this is unadvisable but the concrete room it's in should be ok if the worst were to happen). 12 hours after starting it I checked it and .....11 hours of air printing *facepalm* The very end of the filament had a slight kink in it where it came off the spool. That got jammed in the PTFE tube from the AMS to the buffer and everything reported filament present whilst the gears wore down just one section of filmament for hours *sigh*
It was the latest firmware at fault, it also turned off the heater for the printbed which turned things into a spaghetti nightmare!! I contacted Elegoo and support got back to me in under two hours with a download for firmware 1.125 and since I flashed it back everything has been fine although I have lost some features and I have to get used to the UI on the screen looking different but at least all prints both long and short are fine now.
