Jaysen wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:45 am
The current hang up is 1.0mm nozzle setup. It will make sense when you we the pics/vid of what I’m doing. I’m likely to stick with cheap Enders for “production” on this project but voron is definitely in my future. Mostly because I’m a nerd.
Yeah, running a 1mm nozzle on an Ender is going to be sub-optimal since the hot end and overall printer speed are going to have trouble keeping up. At 1.0mm you are well into the territory of needing a high flow hot end. I know a lot of beginning print farmers have started out with Enders, but you will be creating a maintenance nightmare for yourself. There's a reason why people running farms tend to gravitate to Prusa machines, and it's not because Enders make lower quality prints. Pretty much the reliability is the main reason.
The cleaning thing was an early lesson. As was constant level and mesh calibration. I have the normal “chess a$$ ender!” 0.25mm warp in the plate. Every time I pull the spring plate the shape changes just enough.
The bed is the main reason why I would have recommended something other than an Ender had I seen this thread when you started it. Even one of the "Poverty Prusas" like a Sovol would have been a huge step up. Bed leveling screws are not a thing I have ever had to mess with at all. One of my "Prusa" machines is actually a scratch build with a 310mm Z axis, and while I used mostly genuine parts, the one clone part I ended up with was the heated bed. I know it is pretty warped compared to the other machine with its genuine Prusa heat bed, but in practice that's not been a problem. The mesh leveling routine built into the firmware just takes care of it. There's mods I could do to try to straighten it out, but I haven't had a lot of reason to try to make it better because the system just works as-is.
Which brings me to more nerd stuff… 4days and I was into octoprint. I don’t think I’ve used the as card/print from internal after the fist week. I like issuing command at the terminal and controlling what it’s doing more discreetly.
I have been running Octoprint on both Prusa machines since a few months after I started. The main reason was to set up a pi camera on each for remote monitoring, but not having to use the SD cards to load files has been nice. You can actually run Octoprint as the interface for Klipper if you want to... It's more resource intensive than the interfaces normally used (Mainsail, Fluidd), but it does give Klipper useers access to the huge library of plugins that are available for Octoprint.
I’ve thought about moving to klipper but… it works well enough for my needs “today”.
I am mostly running Klipper on the Voron because I used the LDO Motors kit, and their default setup is for Klipper. I am not really knowledgeable enough to set it up without having step by step instructions to follow. Klipper is nice because you can make changes to the configuration of the printer without needing to recompile and flash new firmware like on the Prusas and other Marlin based firmwares. I went through that process when I first built the modified Prusa with the 100mm taller Z in order to get it to work, and it was a real pain in the ass for somebody like me. The most logical upgrade path for that machine will be to convert it over to Klipper at some point because I don't want to go through the process of editing and recompiling new firmware as Prusa comes out with new versions. I am something like 3 major revisions behind at this point although since the machine works fine, I have little reason to mess with it.