I totally wouldn't mind you becoming a 3D printing channel. Once you've fallen into the rabbit hole, it's quite nice down here…. and an up-to-date video about Octoprint/Octopi would totally gel with your other content.
Nooooooo!!! lol I have thought for half a second about building up a rack system for the printers, with space for one or two huge printers below. But I just can't. I won't!
Prusa support is still on of the best customer service experiences I’ve had with electronics so far. Having said that, I shouldn’t have needed to contact support if the mmu2 was designed just a smidge better. I have a strong preference for prusa printers, but not for the first batch of new models 😊
Nice work, Jeff! There's no reason for you not to consider yourself a "maker" channel. A lot of your content already crosses into that territory. Incidentally thanks for sharing about your health experiences, I've been through similar, and it's something nobody talks about, even though it's more common than many realize.
Nice review! You mentioned the bambulab had no way of doing everything on the machine with usb and a bad display. To solve that big tree tech has made the panda touch thats an upgraded touch screen that is compatible with any bambu and in the future klipper. It can also control multiple printers at once.
So many cool ideas to try out now, like making a daughter board "pi board" fit inside an older PC with printed brackets. Kinda like a VM... You have so many projects, its crazy to think how far down the rabbit hole you can go with it. Or print your own brackets for an embedded ROKU PC TV of your own design.
man congrats on the prusa. I was so happy with my used mk3s+ purchase I upgraded it to a mk3.5 I have a ton of 3d printers but my prusa is by far my favorite.
just a head up, the silver USB sticks prusa send out have an abnormally high failure rate and is worth replacing if you do plan on any long prints from usb as when it fails you print fails too. No idea why they're so unreliable but it's been going on for several years, I assume they're working through a massive stockpile of them. For what its worth in terms of desk movement it _shouldn't_ matter but does for some printers if they've got a weak frame. Any decent printer should litteralyl let you pick it up and turn it upside down and have no issues but it's very dependant on it having a solid frame. For the benchy line if you search up "Benchy hull line" its a common issue and one you wont be able to overcome, you can get it to look like less of an issue but its due to it being the line where the hull meets the floor. Screen wise if you're going to stick with the P1 I'd look at getting the additional screen by bigtreetech, its a bit of a gamechanger
I almost laughed out loud when @level2jeff said he didn’t want to get addicted to 3d printing while standing in front of a dedicated 3d printing table with 3 printers.
I think the LED on the bed only means that the heater is on, not necessarily that the bed is hot. I think once the bed gets to temperature, that LED would turn off.
@@Level2Jeff I might be wrong. I caught a glimpse of that LED in the benchy print montage and it was on. I only have a MK3 so it might be different for the MK4. Or the bed might have a PWM heating mode to maintain the temperature during the print so the LED would appear on whenever it maintains the temperature.
@@jameswarnock5655a thermistor or other temp probe on the underside could be set up to a temp gauge, light or otherwise, too. (The idea of custom printer mods is a fun thought)
I saw your Piz Dispenser at the Charlotte Microcenter, so I know you were there. Unfortunately the rope was broken off 😢 Coincidentally I was there to buy a Pi Pico.
@@Level2Jeff But remember that printer operates best (and fastest) if it has g-code on usb. With OctoPrint and printing from it prints are sent over slow 115200 serial (ascii gcode line by line), loosing some features (power loss recovery). So figure out solution for timelapses (can be OctoPrint) but print from usb still. Unfortunately MK4 firmware is still behind MK3S firmware in terms of serial commands and serial reporting support (OctoPrint to start timelapse recording automatically for USB initiated print needs to know when such print starts and ends).
That tuning and looking for errors is something that should not happen at that price point. Unfortunately it seems to be not that uncommon with prusa printers.
The culprit has been found at the end of the video. A grub screw had come loose during shipping. This is hard to prevent unless you glue everything in place. However, this in turn would limit the repairability.
Printing with an AC is not optimal, the AC turns on and off and changes the temperature in waves... might be the reason for the wierd layers... anyway, just something i noticed when i print with AC on with an open printer.
Yeah; I did have first layer issues on my Ender 3 (old V2) when I didn't have it in an enclosure-but it turned out that set screw was the whole problem on the MK4. It's since printed a few bigger prints with no issue with HVAC on. I have the printers in an area that doesn't get too much airflow, but is regulated around 74-80°F through the day. That seems to be an acceptable range at least for PLA to not have problems.
Also, it should not be hard to filter the AC noise out in the video editor. Da Vinci resolve has it built in in recent versions but I have used a VST plugin for it in the past. You train it on the noise then select the range over which to remove the noise.
Uh, so quality control isn't best, still. Touch screen functionality is only available with recent firmwares (but knob is a way nicer to operate I think) . btw satin sheet is the best on Prusa printers.
Good to know; and in terms of QC, I'm guessing the set screw was fine at the factory, it just slowly worked its way out (the shipper delivered it to me on the box's back, lol). But it might be nice to take little things like this into consideration for future builds-a dab of loctite at the factory would probably end that issue.
an assembled printer at this pricepoint shouldn’t need all the tuning you had to do, i bet josef prusa now regrets sending you one for free #backfire An Ender 3 produced a better benchy!
