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>When I bought an Ender 3 V2 around November This is 100% my recommendation for a first time 3D printer. I bought a wanhou i3 about 4 years ago and it was end
by jcims 5y ago
>When I bought an Ender 3 V2 around November
This is 100% my recommendation for a first time 3D printer. I bought a wanhou i3 about 4 years ago and it was endless frustration. The Ender 2 V2 has been a completely different experience. I have probably 200 hrs of prints through it and just a handful of relatively minor issues.
I did have trouble with Octoprint however. I stopped tinkering pretty quickly but IIRC there is some limitation to how the communication protocol works with the board and it caused me to miss steps here and there and generally resulted in poor prints. If that has been resolved would love to hear about it.
- sokoloff 5y agoI switched my printers over to Klipper and have been overjoyed with the change. It’s a different style of firmware where all the gcode interpretation and motion calculations are done on the more powerful raspberry pi* and only the motion control pulse generation is done on the printer’s board. You get very precise step control as a result and with no start-stop blobbing within a layer. If you don’t want to go that far, look into max resolution settings in your slicer** to reduce tiny moves which might be overrunning the printer’s ability to process. Note that this is still useful with Klipper as well. * I’m using zero-w Pi, which is still way more powerful than a printer board. ** https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvw3DrVAeTA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvw3DrVAeTA
- jcims 5y agoNice! thank you!