I got a P1S a month ago and as a complete newbie to 3D printing, I realised I made a great choice! I concur with your evaluation, and for that reason so far I stick to single colour prints. What blows my mind is the general quality of the printer and the prints! It is great that Bambu Labs offers all the components that seem necessary to repair the printer in any circumstances or expand its capabilities. Their new mini printer seems to have a much different approach to AMS and may waste less filament. Something to think about!
I adore my p1S. I bought a Sovol04 and never got it leveled right. After a week of trying the electronics crapped out. Sent it back and bought the p1S and haven't looked back. Best choice in printers I could have made.
One very good feature of the AMS not mentioned is that it knows how much filament is left on a spool, and it does this in a very clever way. It will pull through a known length of filament, and then count how many revolutions of the spool were made. Using this, it knows that if a roll has a lot of filament, the spool would rotate less than a spool with not much filament, and it's pretty accurate. I believe you have to enable this feature as it's not on by default.
Great video review! Yes, more P1S video's would be nice, as well as more TinkerCad instructional videos and Onshape if possible. I also use a bit of Onshape, and have used Fusion in the past, still trying to learn more Onshape, but seem to always come back to Tinkercad, which is how I ran across your channel! Still running an original Ender3 but wanting a P1S or X1C with AMS.. Thanks for sharing, have subbed!!
Very informative and straight to the point review. Thanks man! Loved the breakdown of the parts you liked and didn't like and it really helped with my decision making.💯
Purging filament when not changing the filament does make some sense as that filament has been in the meltzone and was then fully cooled again before reheating. This does degrade the material and purging that out might have a (slight) positive contribution to the quality the Bambu produces ...
@pmgf911 I personally haven't used the X1 Carbon, but it really depends on your intended use. If like most people starting out 3D printing you're mostly printing PLA I wouldn't spend the extra money on the X1C. Instead, I would spend that extra money on a second 3D printer, the Bambu A1 mini $459 (with multi-color system). Having a second printer lets you print more items faster and if one goes down you have a second one.
I just ordered the P1S with AMS, and have been watching a lot of videos about the waste. Is there a setting so you don't have to purge the colors, if I am ok with the bleeding between colors.
You can change the flushing volumes but clicking flushing volume button next to filament. You can change the multiplier to have less filament flushed. I personally haven't experimented with this yet, but it's on my todo list. Let me know if you try it and how it works.
