3DPrinting
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Second Sovol, and I would also recommend the Anycubic Kobra S1 - its been a great lil printer for me over the last year. Avoid Creality and Elegoo like the plague.
What’s wrong with Elegoo? I don’t have their printers but I’ve used a fair bit of their filament which seems to be good value.
Considering an upgrade myself so wondering what to avoid.
The short version is that I've had two of their printers and both failed due to mainboard issues, and I got no help with either after six months of getting the runaround, escalating, providing video evidence, etc. They sent me a mainboard replacement for one which also failed within days, and their solution was to send me a used printer that was the next class up in size, but two versions back. MicroCenter took pity on me after I showed them the 100+ email chain and refunded the printer fully even though I was well outside of the return period. I'll never buy a single Elegoo product ever again.
Does the Kobra use Klipper, and do you have SSH access?
It does, but you do need to apply a quick hack to get access to SSH and the Klipper web interface for some reason. Slightly annoying, but it was the best of all the options I had in my price range at the time.
I see. It seems a good option for an enclosed printer for the price. I feel a bit uncomfortable with manufacturers selling machines with locked down open source software though 😖
Oh same. I was definitely grumpy about it, but I just couldn't spend 3x the price for a Prusa at the time, even though I love them and really, really want one.