Configuring Reprap Firmware on a Cartesian 3D Printer - The Ender 3 

He doesn't because he bombs his channel with drama

The Ender 4 and it's close competitor the Tronxy X5S are both superior platforms to the Ender 3. Reason being that coreXY kinematics are superior to any frame design with a bed that moves in X or Y. However, the Ender 4 and X5S require more modifications than the Ender 3 to bring them up to a level where they are producing the same quality of parts. While I have not reviewed either the Ender 4, or the Tronxy X5S-400 I would say that the Tronxy is the better purchase because of the increased print volume, and non-cantilevered bed. Of course the major drawback to any of these CoreXY printers is the extremely long Bowden tube. If you get one, I highly suggest purchasing a Zesty Nimble cable driven extruder, or alternately, an E3D Titan Aero with a pancake stepper motor.

Some settings. You can’t, to just take a common mod, enable a BLTouch through the gcode because you have to alter the configuration header file to have the needed support code compiled in.

If you have an Anet A8, and it works then keep using it as it is. That printer was awesome, and it created the market for all the other inexpensive printers from China. We should all be thankful for that, but relative to the other offerings at the same price point, it is a piece of junk today. It's not worth a second of your time to upgrade it.

I do have a build that I helped another Patreon Supporter come up with. It uses all the Ender 3 printed upgrades that I showcased in this build series. I share any and all files I make for these videos with my $5 Patreon supporters Including that Ender 5 Duet build.

In your config.g it is the Z value on the G31 line. This will change your "Trigger Height" If you have a BLTouch or similar auto leveling probe and you are running Reprap firmware, you can follow the steps I showed in this other video. Don't worry that the printer in the video is a Delta style. The steps are the same: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BgkJVgFnPaE.html The forum on the DUET website is a fantastic place to ask these types of questions: forum.duet3d.com/

In the next video I will be installing a zesty Nimble on the TLM. No smart effector yet. That is coming.

@@DesignPrototypeTest I'm going in my config.g now I'll send you my steps per mm for my zesty using a pancake 1.8 6 plug motor from Amazon 2571.42 is my steps per mm on the zesty I got a config.g from ben on RU-vid who has a smart effector an all the goodies like I do hes been helping me alot I also have a pt100 daughter board I think it might of fried when my 1st duet fried so lm gonna order a new one from filastruder tonight put my dioid back on it an try again

It won't be very different. Just use the online Reprap configurator. In fact, you may be able to use my firmware build (copy the screens shown in the video) because the Ender 5 is not actually a CoreXY and is instead a cartesian movement system. The Ender 3 is also a cartesian. I believe the Ender 4 is a CoreXY machine.

This is a good idea.

you can use the duet board in place of a dial indicator it will tell you exactly when the end stop is activating, the end stops are more than up to the job.

Mark Duncan - What I'm curious about is the repeatability over multiple stops attributed to by the end stops. I'm sure that there are cheap ones with poor repeatability, and good ones with good repeatability. How much variance is there? 0.01mm? 0.10mm? I'd also be curious about the results of the same test with various touch probes - BL Touch, clones, etc. My background is in CNC, so I always like to see how repeatable such processes are. It's a sickness - LOL.

That is an excellent idea.

@@Dualecosse Only a dial guage is going to give you true 100% constant readings. My ender 3 bed can be used as a bird bath.

It's also giving me a different ip address after I attempted to make a new SD card..

Search through my videos. I have installed Reprap firmware on 2 CoreXY machines, 3 delta printers, and 3 mendel or I3 style printers. All running the Duet control board. All functioning fantastically with no complaints. I won't use Chinese electronics any more. I've been burned 100% of the time and wasted weeks of my life fighting with the control board to get them working and they never fully work. There is always some no-can-do aspect. Other RU-vidr's don't tell you about. Negative videos lose RU-vidr's money so we tend to shy away from showing you the bad stuff. It's part of the reason why my channel is so small after all this time. I tell you the bad stuff. Chinese 3D printer control boards aren't worth the headache at any price.

Design Prototype Test thanks for taking the time answer me fully and clear I love your channel keep up the good work

yes. And many more than that. It is the same one they are using on the E3D tool changer.

It's not a paywall. I literally will not sell you what I made for $1000. You can't buy my stuff. But, I will give my stuff away to the people who are generous and help me make these videos. Like this one that you just watched for free. Did you know that if you watch every single one of my videos 5 times I will earn about $1 from your viewership. I don't need you or your negativity on my channel. If you feel that what I'm doing is wrong, you are welcome to unsubscribe and never leave another comment on any of my videos ever again.

Design Prototype Test makes sense then.

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I have, and I do understand. ;) Thank you for the support. It is unfortuately an unwritten rule that if you attack someone online you get attacked in equal or even greater measure. Look at my most recent video for example. I said nothing personal, I critiqued a company and the CEO as not being good for the industry. I received hundreds of hateful messages direct at me personally. They even made entire videos mocking me. While I do have that fighting spirit, it's not good for me or this channel to pick fights. For this reason I hold my tongue about a lot of issues. Perhaps when/if this channel becomes more established I will not be so vulnerable to the mob, and I will be able to make more principled stands.

Design Prototype Test totally understand... it’s not easy being correct in this politically correct world of entitled little dicks who think you owe them open source. Your opinion is right on and only bothers those guys.

Nothing exists in isolation. All work is built upon work done previously by others. Yet, we still deserve to be paid for our contributions. This is true for "normal" work as well as open source work.

Many people share your confusion. The sensor monitors movement. If Duet tells the Extruder to move the filament, but the laser sensor detects no movement, then the Duet knows there is a problem and pops a "too little filament movement" error. The sensor is not the same as an optical switch which can be bought for ~$1.50. I made a video about that sensor as well. See it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zJ26DD9tk6w.html

HI Norm, While it is true that DUET gave me these boards free of charge, that is where any sort of sponsorship ends. I am not paid or coached by DUET for the things I say. I stand behind every word I say, and If I am shown to be wrong I do my best to correct my mistakes, so you can trust me to provide unbiased information to the best of my ability. I would love to get to a point where I am making enough money from this channel so that I do not have to accept free products, but as it currently stands, this channel is a major financial burden to me, and turning down products is not an option.

You sound just like the "printing guys" who shall remain nameless. cough cough and their devotion to Prusa and Matter hakers.

I guess I do. Will you buy these products for me to review?

So if someone gives you a product you will give it props and mention it 100 times in all your videos?

If it is good. Yes. I like nice things and I like to tell people about them. Show me a product that is better than the DUET. Meaning it's more mature, with less errors, easier to use, and with more features. You are looking for bias where there is none. The DUET is the best thing on the market at the moment.

I don't sell files. I'm sorry there is no way for you to purchase these. My job is making videos, I'm glad that you found my video entertaining or informative. Please thank my Patreon supporters for giving me the ability to keep making videos.

@@DesignPrototypeTest I do appreciate you making the videos of course. I just do not use credit cards. I could send you an email transfer to help you carry on making your videos. Thanks.

Yes, It's a lot less expensive, but not nearly as good or as easy to install/operate. Not to mention all the other benefits of a Duet board such as Trinamic drivers, and super easy to use/modify firmware using Macros.

Not replace, upgrage. Since you are upgrading anyway, you might as well do it in the most user friendly way.

All I seem to get is people attacking me in these comments. You say you aren't buying a Prusa and yet, there you are sitting comfortably on the group-think bandwagon with everyone else saying Prusa=Good how dare you say bad things about him/it. Ok, so you raised some interesting points about the two Trinamic chips. But that is only one minor issue in the whole subject. So let me set you straight. I have acknowledged Prusa's influence on the industry in such a positive light it was bordering on fanboy behavior in the past. For instance, go watch my interview with the Prusa folks at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Here is the thing: Nobody else except CRT has the balls to criticize or go against Prusa. He/it just isn't that great, and I'm just trying to speak truth to power. He is a curator not an innovator, and it's not healthy for our hobby to have such a dominant force. If you truly were neutral as you insinuate, you would see my comments as a counter balance to the insane levels of praise which are heaped onto Prusa every day. I'm a tiny fish yelling as loud as I can trying to fight back against an illogical mob of fandom for a brand. Now to address the only valid thing you said. It is true that the 2130 chips seen on a Prusa can be run slightly more quiet than the 2660 chips on the Duet Board because the 2130s have the Stealthchop feature. In my experience (and the venerable Tom Sanladerer agrees with me) stealthchop is of debatable utility. Reason being it greatly reduces the torque which the motors can handle before skipping. In other words, if you are running stealth chop and trying to print at high speeds, you are extremely likely to get motor skipping resulting in layer shifting of your prints. Meanwhile Spreadcycle is almost as quiet and gives the motors far more torque. Now, let's say you want to run your Cartesian printer at very high speeds. First you will need a very stiff frame to handle the rapid changes in direction of print head and bed. The Ender 3 is far stiffer than the Prusa with it's zip ties. As we already covered these rapid changes in direction of the inertial mass are likely to cause skipping in the stepper motors. The solution is to run more powerful stepper motors on Spreadcycle and not Stealthchop mode, thus the 2660 drivers are more desirable. Most people running the Prusa run it on Spreadcycle, and even then the fan noise is louder than the motor noise. I'm going to straw man you here and say that your argument essentially boils down to this: "The 2660 chips lack Stealthchop, but the 2130 chips on the Prusa have that feature. Therefore you are EXTREMELY!!! biased because you did not acknowledge the obvious superiority of the Prusa." My reply: Stealthchop is of dubious utility, and as it was the lynch pin of your argument everything else you said can be greatly discounted or dismissed entirely.