New silent motherboard installed with no issues. It’s crazy how much quieter it is. These should come stock. I won’t miss the robot sex noises.
Posted Nov 9, 2021, 9:52 PM UTC
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Still 8 bit or was it an upgrade?
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Still 8 bit unfortunately. Not too sure what other options there are without getting a brand new screen. Although eventually i may want to do that.
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stock screen from E5+ works very well with BTT SKR1.3/1.4 and InsanityAutomation firmware 😉 https://github.com/InsanityAutomation/Marlin/tree/CrealityDwin2.0_Bleeding
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Interesting. Thanks for that advice, I’ll have to look into that. That’s the one thing I’ve heard that isn’t super great about the E5+. The stock firmware.
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The Creality firmware on all their BL Touch firmware on all machines is bad as the X,Y offset does not work so it misses a large area of the bed when probing, the Insanity Automation FW is exellent, I would change the cooling fan for the board if I were you as they have a habit of failing and then your board fry's.
It happened to me!
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Would highly recommend BTT SKR Mini E3 with a TFT35 display from them.
The Mini E3 is a drop in replacement for the stock board, and the print for the mount/housing on the TFT35 is a really simple print & assembly. The only part I had issues with was the firmware because I wanted to use the most up to date version of Marlin firmware so I had to do the work on my own to figure out what needed to change (which wasn't that much)
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Nice! I’ll have to look into that! That will probably be an update for a bit later once I can finally get it dialed in with the current hardware. But yeah I hear the default firmware on these e5+ aren’t that great.
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Just installed the SKR2 with a TFT35. Auto Z-Level is nice
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Would you mind sharing your configuration.h and configuration_adv.h files? Can't get z-homing with bltouch and really could use a reference...
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I use the config from KerseyFabrications, ckeck his yt channels community tab. There is a link to the firmware as well as documentation for installing the board
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Swapped mine about 3 months ago and I'm still tuning to get it back to where it was.
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Dang thats rough. Mine seems to be doing just as good as it was before switching. I got mine off the creality site.
Still can’t quite figure out this retraction issue
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Yea thats what is stopping me right now - I've ran mine for 6+ months with no issues - many 40+ hour prints with little to no issues. Not worth the risk yet.
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I had mine doing 6 and 7 day prints coming out near flawless. Now I'm still working on a benchy.
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Oh man that sucks. The autolevel kept messing up on mine so I had to just run without the touch. It works great without it but I was thinking of doing the swap but now I'm scared again ha.
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but with out the robot sex noises it makes it a challenging wank ... /s
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Lmao
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I missed the robot noises. Oddly reminded me of the 80s. I liked it.
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I still don't understand how a new mother board can make motors quieter
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There's some electronics stuff I don't understand, but effectively the drivers (on your board there should be a row of little black squares (like 5-6 of them near where your axies plug in) control what signal is sent to the motors, from what I understand, silent boards use better quality drivers that send signal in a certain way to the motors so that they run quieter. I'm guessing a channel like Makers Muse or something probably goes in to detail as to why its like this. But effectively its the drivers on the board that make it silent.
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Right?!? Me too! It sounded like all the noises were coming from the nozzle not the MB.
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I did the same and will be adding Klipper to my printer
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On top of the robot sex noises, my Z screws also squeal horribly especially when going through the auto-level routine. Like robot sex in a cheap bed...
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Haha yeah mine were doing that a bit. At first i used vegetable oil to grease them then changed to the plastic z screws with springs in them. Haven’t heard a peep since.
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Robot sex noises 😂😂😂 they literally give me nightmares. Sometimes when I'm not printing I still hear them. I desperately want this board. Already ordered on Amazon. Still waiting
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on day 3 of my build, coming from a 3v2 this thing is crazy noisy!
will be looking into a replacement sooner then later i think...
Haha yeah mine was super loud also. Can barely even hear it now.