Hopefully it is a short wait!
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How short ? The suspense is killing me!
At this point I am waiting on at least 4 shipments and 2 are samples so if those are good I will only have a few thenā¦wait for more to shipā¦or wait for more samples. The amount of money I have out right now has never been higher. All in transit or about to ship. Brutal, sorry it is taking so long.
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No worries, Iām sure it will all work out .
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Makes me feel good about putting my LR2 on hold. I will likely be one of the vanguards building an LR3 and putting some cash back in your pocket.
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I hope it is all ok i am waiting with with eager anticipation. It is fun to be on the edge for us without to much monie invested just relax and we will come through for you too.
Floor to ceiling basement cabinets will be the first full project i run. I first need to clean the basement 
so i am not sure i want it to be done to soon just make it good 
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Will the LR3 be using different/new control boards or what is currently being used for the LR2 ?
Thanks much.
I, as well as many of the beta testers are using the same electronics that was running my LR2. There are zero differences in configuration as far as the electronics go for an LR3 as compared to an LR2 ā with endstops. If you were planning on iusing an LR2 configuration without endstops, I think that is still possible, but the LR3 is much better (IMO) with the endstops.
Short answer, no necessary changes in electronics.
Now, Iām using different control electronics than most, but I donāt see a reason why I couldnāt run this on an SKR Pro, or even a RAMPS stack if I wanted to. The Duet Wifi that Iām using does allow me to do some pretty cool things though. 
Not necessarily useful things, but cool.
As someone on the Beta team, Iām quite happy with my machine as it stands. I have some tweaking to do, and I have some finalization to do on the machine itself. If you look on Printables, I have a remix of Ryanās tool holder up which I needed for my specific situation. Itās not a huge variation, I just needed a bit more room.
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Hopefully the stuff already left China. Shanghi is on lockdown again, and this is all the ships waiting to dock.
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Can you share what the āpretty cool thingsā you can do with the duet are?
Not without showing a video of the machineā¦ Which is in the build PLOG that will be visible after the machine is released.
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Itās so pretty, yet horrible all at the same time.
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Yeah, I have a pallet of bearings that may or may not make it out of a different port (Ningbo) because of the closure. That palletās shipping was probably a bit more than double what it was last time.
Sell me a sample. 
Hahahaha ok no, then it wouldnāt be a sample
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Now its the time, now i have a new shed with enough space to accomodate another full sheet machine, and now my family and neighbors wont cry and be mad with the noise. (Full dual layer noise insulation all over the place, you cant hear nothing from outside)
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Hmmmā¦ looks like I can still acquire pretty much all the LR2 parts from the V1 store with the exception of the mini rambo and the lead screws. Amazon has an SKR v1.4 with the TMC2209 stepper drivers for $72 and the lead screws for $12 and changeā¦
Given the ambiguity/lack of availability of the parts required for the LR3 currently and the potential to reuse some of the LR2 parts on the LR3 maybe itās still wise to just build an LR2 still as discussed in this thread, above (sorry canāt link to it, maybe itās a new user limit)
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That is a lot of shipping traffic backed up.
Iām not sure I would recognize it on a normal day either though. The ships are obviously not drawn to scale.
Is that double the normal traffic? 20x? 200x? 2000x?
Obviously, it looks pretty clogged when all of them are black and red.
The flat parts are not available. I would just wait, trust me. At that point you can decide if the LR2 or 3 is what you want.
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Well dangit. I had all but decided to just proceed with the LR2 after hearing that youāre suffering supply chain delays (I just posted a multi-question post in the āadviceā section of the LR forum as well).
do you have any sense at all about when a LR3 kit could be made available? Iād like to have a functioning cnc router by the end of May. Given my timeline, would you still recommend I wait for the v3? I definitely would prefer that option! I realize you would be purely guessing if you can answer so just want to put that out there.