So I (re)started with commercial 3D printers with the FlashForge A5M after @DougJoseph gave a glowing review to his. I had to admit that it was very convenient and better than the ones I had built. Cheaper, too.
That led to me buying a Centauri Carbon, which was supposed to have a future upgrade to multi-material. Well, that didn’t happen, but I knew that it would not before I actually received it.
So Elegoo.announced that the Carbon II would start.shipping this week, and I dithered over it a couple of days, but pulled the trigger on it, so it will be coming soon.
I’m looking forward to seeing how it all works. I certainly hope that I won’t need yet another slicer though. Im.using Prusa Slicer for my MP3DP printers and my own self-designed, Orca slicer for the FlashForge, and Elegoo slicer for the Carbon. Elegoo slicer is really close to the Orca slicer, maybe I can convince it to talk to the FF. Orca won’t deal with the Elegoo quite right though, so that’s my software tangle, and the main complaint I have with the commercial printers.
I have two printers right now and I use Bambu Studio for most of the printing I do, I sometimes use cura for my large print bed Ender 5 plus. I guess it’s good to try different things but I think it’s nicer to have one ecosystem.
The carbon II looks like a great deal and I like the 4 spool holders on the side.
I use bambu studio for my fdm printers and lychee for the creality halot mage s, and anycubic Mono2 resin printer.My tronxy x5s I used slic3r and a raspberry pi 4+ loaded with repetier server pro. Im not sure if i can connect repetier server pro to the bambu labs P1S and include the start and end G-Code for bed leveling and filament unloading after the print. It would be nice to have just one slicer for all the different printers.
I had to go to Detroit for busines the last 4 days, (yeah all weekend) so I stopped a MicroCenter, I watched someone buying a printer, man they sold shit, Dessicant, pla, etc, etc, etc. The guy walked in for a printer and took out a cart!
It started okay, but then it looked like it just popped the fan cover off, but it was more serious.
Support says it probably happened in shipping. The support contact page doesn’t list the Carbon 2 yet. The spec for the Carbon 2 seems different than the Carbon, so I don’t even know if I could just buy the hotend listed, or if it would be different.
The Canvas multi material system is pretty cool though. Too bad the RFID system for the spools seems proprietary, but the system for setting up the spools without is simple enough.
This is something that all the manufactures have failed on in my opinion. This would have been so easy to create a standard for and everyone use the same thing. I get why they don’t from a business standpoint, but as a consumer it sucks.
Anyone having issues with the connectivity to the Elegoo slicer? When I connect to the slicer, it displays my SN instead of my IP address, and when I reset the wifi on my CC2, the IP address doesn’t change. Is that normal?
Bummer about the hot end 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.
So they’re sending me a new hotend, Elegoo support has been quite responsive and helpful. Meanwhile they confirmed that the hotend is identical to the one from the Carbon 1, which I have a spare for, with the exception of the thermistor, which is different (And gives the higher temperature capabilities to the Carbon 2.) Since my thermistor is intact, I’ve implemented repairs by taking the thermistor from my spare hotend, and putting in the one from the broken hotend into it. I’m attempting my 2 colour print again now. So far it looks good. This is a pretty simple print with only 2 layers of white text inlaid into a black body, but I think that will be more than sufficient as a test… And they’re done.
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.