Elegoo Neptune 3: a 3D Printer with NO springs to adjust (and that's good)
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2022
- Elegoo sent me the The Neptune 3 for review: full featured with Auto Bed Levelling, Touch Screen, Filament Sensor, Silent Board - and super Affordable! I am serious: you can assemble it in less than 30 minutes, even if it is your first 3D Printer.
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@ElegooOfficial NEPTUNE 3: Assembly Tutorial
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Can't wait for mine to arrive!
Just ordered it as my first printer how’s yours treating you?
your personality won my Sub, loved the video thank you for it
Hi Mattie, thanks and welcome to the channel! 🤗
Preordered mine today!!
Congrats, Matthew! It has been a very smooth printer so far - I guess you will love it!
Loved it!🤩
Oh, thank you!!! 🤗
I got myself this exact printer for 240€ because Amazon had a special deal or something. Anyway, I can only recommend it! I have had my first experiences with 3D printing and honestly, I was surprised by how quiet it is. I was afraid the whole would be shaken out of sleep everytime I wanted to print something, but you can't even hear it in the next room.
Also, the instruction video on the SD card is absolutely fool proof. The whole experience was just perfect so far.
True! It is an excellent printer at a very good price!
Recently had a 2s die, but my insurance covered it and now I'm waiting for a 3.
Your video is very pleasing to watch 😎
Thank you Thomas! 😄 What kind of insurance was that? 🤔
@@GeekDetour just a residential electronics insurance.
Filho, amamos o vídeo, esta impressora seria mais indicada pra uma iniciante , entendi que não requer tantos ajustes. Que trabalhos lindos!! Que vidro como sempre top de qualidade!
Oi mamãe! 🥰 Obrigado! Sim, “nivelar a mesa” (ou a “cama”) é o ajuste mais importante em qualquer impressora 3D - e na Neptune 3 você não ajusta a cama… ela está toda parafusada (a minha tinha até um pequeno desnível na parte de trás a esquerda) - e o procedimento de “nivelamento automático” vai “sentir” essas alturas e compensar, fazendo o bico subir e descer o pouco que for necessário durante a impressão pra compensar o desnível e garantir que o plástico grude na superfície.
É uma impressora bem gostosa de usar. Não tem erro 😄
Te amo muito mamãe 😘
Isto do nivelamento automático e na hora da impressão é realmente super. ❤️💋
The Creality CR6 Se has the same auto level and same kind of bed and i can say that it works perfectly. I tuned the strain gauge for a better measure and used silicon spacers after some time, only because i wanted to see if the leveling could be any better. But in reality, the only change was in consistency (i love modding my 3d printer).
They tend to warp over home due to temperature fluctuation, but with the latest firmware, the leveling on the Neptune 3 is more consistent. I modded mine to the teeth. Check out my playlist xD
Thanks for the entertaining review. I have a question i found nowhere answered also in written reviews. What fotprint does the printer have - excluding any overhangs. I plan on putting it on a shelf and have a free space for overhang in front, but would like to know what base area it covers from the furthest point at the pack up to the last area of the front feet touching the surface it stands on ... whould be happy to get an answer to that.
He there! I totally understood your question: you have a shelf and you don't bother if the printer has anything that "floats / moves" in front of the shelf... you are just concerned about the feet of the printer fitting your shelf. The answer is: the feet of the printer needs 30cm of depth on your shelf.... BUT the printer needs another 10cm at the back (because the y-motor and heated bed cable overhangs to the back and they will hit the wall). So, you need a 40cm deep shelf to have a Neptune 3 working (15.75 inches). AND, in front of the shelf, the Y-Axis belt tensioner will be "floating" extra 12cm.... and if the bed moves all the way to the front, it will overhang 16cm. If you need all of that in inches, divide my numbers by 2.54
Hope it helps!
How do I calibrate my e steps on the neptune3?? I can't find anything that's has an E calibration
nice video.
i'm curious what was that device you are using to dry filament?
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Thanks! It is a "Food Dehydrator" running at 60ºC... I never used it for actual food, I bought it exactly to dry spools of filament. But today you can find products specifically made for 3D Printing, just search for "3D Print Dry Box" and you will see what I mean.
After owning this printer after about a year, and spending too much time upgrading it, here’s what I have to say:
The extruder is good, but Bowden isn’t so good. The filament sensor is insanely sensitive, it will catch a runout, and even filament tangles and clogs, but you can forget about TPU. The touchscreen is nice, but it is very limited and not too soon after having underextrusion because of poorly tuned Esteps, I had to plug it into my PC and Octoprint can’t communicate with it unless you print from the SD card use Octoprint for monitoring, so you might as well ditch the screen and Marlin in favor of Klipper. The ABL works but if the bed is more than +-0.5mm out of whack, it won’t be able to compensate. The stock hotend is fine for a 0.4mm nozzle, but not so much when you want use a 0.6 mm nozzle and 0.44mm layer heights whilst also printing at 100mm/s, because then you will get under extrusion and the hotend is going to starve for flow. To cap it off, old rebranded versions of Cura suck and you should at least use the newest Cura. If you couldn’t tell by the wall of text, I am a tinkerer when it comes to printers, especially this one. In conclusion, install Klipper, a Coppehead CE heatbreak, direct drive, tune your profiles and only then you can print.
I agree with basically everything you said: I made this review 16 months ago… and A LOT has changed in the 3D Printer universe! If you look at the Neptune 4, it comes with everything you mentioned: direct drive, double z axis, Klipper, waaaay faster… Check it out!
Thanks for the video!
How long does it take it to heat up compared to the Ender 3?
Hi! Excellent question: I am not at home right now, but it is more than 3 minutes. Maybe it can be changed in the starting GCODE, but either on the testing Buddha and on my other prints, the Nozzle heated first, only then the bed began to heat. I need to record a side-by-side video. To me it is not a deal breaker, printing quality is always more important. But, yeah, heating could be faster 😄
@@GeekDetour I understand, thank you for your reply.
The long heating time is caused due to the machine heating the bed and nozzle separately rather than simultaneously.
Thanks again for the great video!
Hi, i just found your video, while looking for videos about the elegoo neptune 3.
I wish my auto levelling values where as good as yours mine very massively from -0.43 bottom left corner to 0.56 top right corner and the system is not compensating for that much deviation. So one side to high and one side to low and nozzle scratching the bed. Still trying to get a resolution from elegoo.
But was nice to see your thoughts and comments on the printer.
The Gantry is not really horizontal in your case… there are people reporting it and it seems Elegoo oriented some procedures to adjust the side wheels in a way to make it more leveled - but I cannot find it now to post it here.
hey! have you found a solution to your problem? Im experiencing a simular situation.. on the front right corner im all good set with z correction, but on back left i am way too deep, if i compensate that with z correctoin, the other corner is too high again.. i dont know what to do, im new to 3d printing.
@geek detour you have any ideas?
@@Comedy11maker hi. Elegoo sent me a new sensor set and this has sorted my levelling issue.
High, I have a question. I was talking with a friend of mine and one thing he pointed out was spare parts. I have the ender 3 and almost everything is replaceable while the Neptune 3 might not have that many spare parts incase something breaks
Hello there! I also have an old Ender 3 Pro and 80% of it is NOT original anymore - indeed it is super easy to find parts for an Ender 3.
But, honestly, there is almost nothing in the Neptune 3 (2 and 1) that you cannot replace quite easily! The motors are the same, z-axis thread, the VSLOT wheels, pulleys, power-supply… Nozzles, PTFE tube; bed plates… it is VERY standard stuff.
And, more importantly: Elegoo has a nice support. I doubt you won’t be able to replace whatever part that breaks / wears out.
@@GeekDetour my I was asking about the Neptune 3. Sorry for the miss understanding
Maybe you didn’t read all my answer - I have the Neptune 3 AND also an Ender 3. I don’t think the Neptune 3 will be hard to fix or replace any parts at all. Both printers are very similar in the end - and Elegoo has a great support.
For some Reasons I can´t find the printer in ANY slicer. Where did you find it? My Elegoo Cura and Ultimaker Cura are both the newest version. Good video btw!!
Hi there! When I made the review the printer was not publicly available, so, no profiles - for my tests I used an Ender 3 Profile and changed a few values… nothing much scientific 😁 I thought profiles would be easily available by now… I’LL try to find.
I used the profile for the neptune 2 and it worked great!
Excellent video! This was enjoyable to watch and now I’m debating on getting this printer. I’ve been all over the place trying to decide what to get as a first printer but I read one of your comments saying this one does a great job compared to more expensive models. I saw it has a Pro version coming out that I was debating on too but I can’t seem to find one for sale I’m not sure if it’s really sold out or isn’t available yet? Maybe you know. That being said, I’m interested in trying to print busts of marvel, image, and dc characters I like. I’m a total new jack with this stuff. I’m not sure if there are better printers for slightly more or mods that make this or others better. At this point I’m ready to pull the trigger and get something especially with Black Friday approaching. To be completely honest whatever you recommend might be what I go for. I was originally looking at the creality ender 3 s1 pro but this is sooo much cheaper. So what to you think? Sorry for the lengthy comment, and if you read this I appreciate you taking your time! Thank you!
My pleasure to give you my opinion! I think the Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro might be worth the wait - it won’t be much more expensive than the Neptune 3 and Dual Z Axis + Direct Drive is worth the difference in my view. I wish I could say it from personal experience - Elegoo seem to have sent one Neptune 3 Pro for me to review, but it didn’t arrive yet, so, my opinion is based on what I read and the few reviews already published on UA-cam.
The Ender 3 S1 Pro is an excellent printer, specially with the Sonic Pad - but the price is completely on another sphere, right?
For a first 3D Printer, the Neptune 3 (or Pro) is a no brainer. Excellent printer for the price.
@@GeekDetour yeah the s1 pro is definitely a decent step up in price, especially for seeing similar prints from both that are almost identical. I saw that the sonic pad made it a more efficient faster machine but that’s more money and frankly more stuff to learn that I’m not ready to tackle right out of the gate lol. I’m glad you said to wait for the Neptune 3 pro because I was leaning toward that. Do you find yourself printing with some of these more “exotic” filaments? I think that was the big reason I was looking at the s1 pro. Something about carbon fiber (I believe it printed something like that) seemed cool but honestly not sure how often I’d do it. Thank you for taking your time to help me out! I’ve liked and subscribed and will continue to watch your videos, the quality is awesome! Now fingers crossed i get a release date on the Neptune 3 pro! Can’t wait to see your review of it!
@@GeekDetour sorry to bother you again, but I just checked again and it looks like it’s officially available for preorder of the 3 pro! Just got my order in thank you again! December 3rd!
How can you get the Neptune 3 on the latest version of cura?
You can always compile Marlin yourself and try to keep up with the bleeding edge version of Marlin - but that needs some knowledge and extra work. Elegoo is still updating the Firmware of the Neptune 3 - I recently tested their 1.0.5-Beta and it worked on my Neptune 3:
github.com/NARUTOfzr/Neptune_3
so what is that print file for what you printed in the video ? thank you
Hi Brandon! Look in the Description of the video - there is a section “3D Models in this video” with the names and links to where you can download each STL file. 👍
You missed the opportunity to use the phrase 'no springs attached' 😆
Ta-da Tchixsssss!
Is there a way fore me to know when mine will be sent out I pre-ordered one fore the first batch
Hello there, Nico! I am not aware of the delivery dates (just to be clear: I don’t work for Elegoo). I’ve been seeing people posting from the US about delays in deliveries from China during the last couple of weeks, from different brands.
@@GeekDetour oh ok thank you sorry for assuming you worked for them have a good day
Big thanks for your video!
Currently thinking on buying my first 3d printer and I'd like to ask you for some advice please.
Right now I'm looking into Elegoo Neptune 3 VS Creality Ender 3 V2 NEO
Fixed bed and filament sensor on neptune really look appealing, and your comment about neptunes auto leveling being better also adds some points.
The only two things I'm worried about are the beds shape you mentioned in the vid and how will it work with different slicers.(I see people mentioning profile issues)
Offtop: doesn't spool mounted on top of the Gantry add a bit of vibration(and maybe ringing to the print(?)) as it spins unfolding the filament?
The Creality Ender 3 V2 Neo is a more expensive machine - it has auto-bed leveling AND adjustable springs (I like being able to physically make it as leveled as possible, not just relying on automatic compensation). The Neo also has an all-metal hotend - but that only matters if you go for more exotic / higher temperature filaments. As a final advantage is: Creality has a much bigger community of users.
The Elegoo Neptune 3 is an extremely complete printer for the price - and it prints a bit more taller models (3cm more on the Z-axis). User base is growing more and more.
Consider that you will also spend money on filament when you start in this hobby…
Both printers are very good. I like both companies. Take a look at the official users group for both printers on Facebook (I also participate in both and people are very helpful).
@@GeekDetour Thanks for answering!
Yes, i'm accounting for filament price too.
I've joined neptune 3 group on facebook and now even more concerned about abscense of manual bed adjustment.
I still have some time to consider everything, but I'm more leaning to ender 3 v2 neo now, even with the price difference, it seems to be a bit easier to troubleshoot and get replacement parts if anything goes south.
The "not v2" ender neo is cheaper(and looks cheaper too), but it doesn't have belt tensioning and v2 just seems to be better build.
Thanks again for your time.
How do you compare it to a Prusa i3 mk3s+ ?
Wow! That’s a tricky comparison: the Prusa i3 mk3s+, assembled, costs 4 times the price of the Neptune 3 🤣 I would totally buy 4 Neptunes 3 instead of a single Prusa mk3s+
The Prusa has direct drive, Neptune 3 a Bowden tube. Prusa has two Z stepper motors (to me, the most interesting difference). Both printer have automatic bed-leveling and you can use “Prusa Slicer” or “Cura”…
I saw photos of models printed on the Prusa MK3S+… it prints as well as any well calibrated, well adjusted and well maintained filament printer. I don’t think it is worth the price 🤷♂️
The prints I got from the Neptune 3, out of the box, were excellent, arguably the same quality. The same quality I get from my totally modified Ender 3 Pro (that now has basically the same amount of sensors, a modern Marlin Firmware on a modern 32 bit board). There is a limit of how much “amazing” a filament printer can deliver. 😆
How much power does the psu have?
Hi there! On the label it says "Model P360W24V"
It also says Max 15A.
And 24V X 15A = 360 Watts
longgg time no see
Hi there! I guess this is a general perception when I publish my videos - I am working to change that and publish more often 🤣
Is resin printer better or filament printer better
They are different. Resin printers have unbeatable resolution: good for really detailed parts - very often art objects. And people that work with jewelry use special castable resins to make the molds. Normal resin is more brittle than filament - although there are engineering (means: expensive) resins for demanding parts. The problem of resin for functional parts is: they shrink over a few days, so you need to compensate for that (and wait).
Filament has a much bigger variety of colors, you take off of the printer and it’s done. Quick and clean. They get out at their final size. Not to mention it is almost no odor and it is even safe enough for kids to have their own 3D Printers.
I love the resin parts. But I use filament MUCH more - like, for every part I print in Resin I probably print more than 50 parts in filament (because I am way more into practical prints).
Would you still recommend this printer?
Today I recommend their successors: Neptune 3 Pro and Neptune 4 Pro
Any easier?! I cannot even get anything to print correctly :()
Hi there! Have you joined a users group? That's the best way to discover what's going on and get up and running in no time. Here is the Neptune User's Group on Facebook: facebook.com/groups/192499235897759/ Join, post PHOTOS or VIDEOS of your failed prints and help will come! The Neptune is one of the easiest printers around, 3D Printing can be tricky in the beginning.
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É da hora a Neptune 3. É um fato que a Neptune 3 Pro dá um SALTO de melhorias em relação à 3… mas a 3 é bem legal.
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Muito obrigado! Sim, José! Sou paulista - mas vivo na Espanha já faz uma década 🤯 Caramba, como passou depressa!
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To me that's the biggest downside of the printer thought oh awesome I don't gotta mess with it 2 months in added bed springs due to the back corner never going level
Most people take off the springs - you did the opposite 😄. I actually like the springs, to manually adjust the bed. I use strong springs and they remain set for months!
@GeekDetour ikr after adding them it has helped alot I can acualy start a print know it's not going to dig in the print bed where with out them the back corner would scape elegoo sent me another bed was not the problem machines square added springs problems gone and have a perfect bedmesh and as a + I got a extra bed lmao so if springs dose warp the bed over time it's all good elegoo neptune 3 pro with bed springs and the bigtreetech pad 7 runing klipper has been the best upgrade thinking about doing a voron hotend upgrade or a multi color setup now that I got that frustrating corner fixed