So I have confirmed the difference between the CC1 and CC2 hotends to be just the thermistor. The CC1 is limited to 320°C while the CC2 can reach 350°C (the CC1 gets hot enough for any filament I’ve used so far!) I Amazon Overnighted a hotend for the CC1, grabbed the thermistor from.the broken one and have printed some multicolor parts.
This is a key fob case I remixed for a friend. Obviously for a Ford car.
I have some complaints, mostly about how the slicer fits things together with “painted” surfaces. The Ford text and oval are separate bodies in a .step file, the blue is painted in. When on the bottom like thst, it works well, but if it’s bridged, the slicer does not bridge it at all, and prints the colour unsupported, which works about as well as you might think. I solved that but going back to CAD and making a slab slightly larger than the required grid, and having it made in the different colour. Then the bridging across the depression worked as expected.
Anyway, support.
My first query was answered right away, I put in the request in the evening, had an answer in the morning. I’m guessing support is in China given the time, but the English wasn’t bad. It took a while from “we will send you a new part” to “here is a tracking number” though. I got the tracking number this morning, and it’s coming from China, so I’d guess at least a week before I’ll have the part in hand.
Meanwhile, I got the CC1 hotend and have been working with the printer. Now I guess I can keep the spare CC1 thermistor and have a spare hotend ready for either printer on short notice, so ²pthe money wasn’t wasted.
The CC2 has some differences. The LCD turns itself off, while the CC1 doesn’t. The spool holders for the Canvas system have a spring retract, which is fine for the Elegoo cardboard spools, but they don’t hold/keep the plastic spools that much of my filament comes on. I designed and made adapters for the plastic spools with a 72.5mm ID for the one manufacturer thaf I’ve been buying for a while. The Canvas spool holders spring back to allow the Canvas to unload filament, without them going slack, so a tightish hold on the spool is required. One more way to lock you into their filaments, I guess.
Overall, I’m quite happy with the print quality. There is a lot of filament waste when using multi-colour, unless you do it by.layers, but reviews of other systems seems to indicate that it’s the same no matter the system. The slicer time estimate is a little optimistic, whereas it’s very accurate for the CC1. I think the difference is that the filament change takes.longer than the slicer thinks, since it’s on change layers where the gap increases between estimated time and actual.
After I had the printer off for a time the slicer started complaining that the printer didn’t match the slicer profile and claims the Gcode won’t work, and may damage the printer. It works fine though. The slicer profile.is.definjtely for the CC2, which the selected.printer is. I wonder if it’s getting confused because the “first” printer is the CC1.
I will say, anything local to the printer that I’ve tried so far has been really impressive. Running into more tech issues than print issues. Got it set up less than a week ago.