I think I was one of the earliest people to try mks Robin e3d (I bought it with tmc2209). I'm super satisfied. I used to have skr mini e3 v1.2 which fried after a month, but mks works with no problem for quite some time. Sometimes on bltouch clones it fails to probe correctly - I bumped up length of signal and decreased probing speed and it works correctly now. At first firmware support was poor, but marlin community did an outstanding job. It's way easier than it used to be as you can see on the video, but I'm sticking to my fork as it works for now ;) As a person who had both mks and skr: go MKS, cheaper and just as good if not even better. Outstanding board for just $20 Feel free to ask me any questions.
Wow. I did not think that adding a second extruder could be facilitated by a new main board. I am excited to set up a second extruder for flexible materials.
Another thumbs up for uploading videos right when we need them. Just bought a MKS Robin E3D board and here is a 2 weeks old complete tutorial. Thank you very much sir.
The video I have waited for! I bought the E3 Turbo last month over the v1.4 due to being already set up with TMC2209s. First main board replacement on my Ender 3 and first major upgrade with the BTT TFT 43! Great videos - always the channel I look for when searching printing videos!
Great timing. I ordered an MKS E3 to replace my SKR Mini E3 that I burnt by connecting the blower fan in reverse polarity. However, I've since fixed it so will have 2 silent boards.
@@TeachingTechThanks! fixing it was the most fun I've had with my 3D printer. I've learnt so much about mosfets and and the electronics that power the heating and cooling side of the board.
I just compared these boards to the Anycubic Mega Zero 2.0. Turns out they are also a replacement for my new Mega Zero! Thank you TT, SKR E3 on my list.
Love your Content Man... Was very helpful to me in the past when I got started, and I can still count on you for the inside scoop on things like this !! Nice Job ....
As usual great content for peeps who want to upgrade and who are looking to swap out their mainboards. May I pitch two proposals for new videos: 1. Marlin Touch UI 2. Bigtreetech Rumba32
Well if I don't end up getting a warranty replacement from BTT for my dead CPU out of the box new SKR 2 than I plan to purchase a MKS Robin E3 for my RepRap Guru i3 3D printer. Just looking to go 32 bit as I've gone through a few RAMPS 1.4 and 1.6+ boards. After about a week of no replies from Big Tree Tech support I reached out on Twitter, facebook and Instagram to finally get a response on Facebook. So it appears I might get a warranty replacement SKR 2. I was on the fence about either getting a BTT SKR 2 or MKS Robin E3 board. I figure better quality for more money but was wrong, dead out of the box. Great video by the way!
Thankyou for this video man! I ended up ordering the MKS Robin E3 V1.1 though and I was lucky to discover that H and A are reversed on this board. Im not sure if thats meant to be or not, but it seems to be working ok.
Solid video, thanks for the great information! Makerbase has a Duet 2 wifi clone I would like to try, wish they sold it on Amazon because I wont order anything from Aliexpress.
Awesome video as always. I think I'm gonna have to order a couple of the turbo boards to add dual extrusion and dual z on my ender 3 pro and ender extender 400 xl respectively.
Me and a lot of people are having lots of trouble with SKR E3 Turbo: You can read at github's SKR E· Turbo issue number 31: Steppers burned, extruders melted, ruined prints... Not a single word from bigtreetech regarding this very dangerous problem Third time i write this comment, expecting not to be erased again.
So I did some digging, you and one other person are the only ones to have this issue. I checked the github, and it was just you and one other person, not the “lots of people” you claimed. github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-SKR-E3-Turbo/issues/31 Also, there is the “extruders melting” from. I know older E3 Turbos and v1.2s had resistor issues, but it has been fixed by now, and can be fairly easily fixed on older boards.
@@derektran9404 please digg better, not only my oppened issue. Check all the github from bigtreetech regarding mottors extreamly hot and noissy. Also check on reddit for the same thing. This is happeninmg to a lot of people, also with the E3 mini that is older than the turbo.
No one is deleting your comments from here. I very rarely have to do it and it's only for extreme cases like profanity. My policy is to give credit where due when things work and highlight problems. My track record reflects that and I will publicise any problems I have with this board. So far, so good for both boards in this video.
@@pozi78 Seems to me the issues are people don't have proper vrefs set, any mention of this issue is pretty scarce. As mentioned before, the V1.2 had the thermistor issue but nothing about the stepper issue.
@@TeachingTech Maybe it was because i was posting the link to the github issue the other two times. As soon as I delted the ling the comment remained. I don´t know. But 20 seconds after adding the comment it just disapered. My appologies
I have stooped buying bigtree tech gear as its failure rate is amazingly bad as in 3 out of 3 board and 2 screens on 3 different printers have all died or have reoccurring problems over the last year. I have ordered the MKS Robin E3P kit with its really cool touch screen for my ender3 pro. It actually shows a picture of what you want to print and are printing on the screen much better than trying to read abbreviated or cut off file names. It cost me $65 bucks AUD for the Robin E3P 4 tmc 2209 drivers screen to fit a E3 and wifi module. As Makerbase have been around a lot longer than BTT and I have never had any of their older 8 bit board die. I'm hoping this will be a better and cheaper setup.
The robins seem a perfect mobo to use with klipper, one can just buy 2 of them for less than the price of the SKR, to have twice of everything. It may not have screen support with klipper but I don't care about screens when I only use it through wifi on the PC or the phone.
Hi Micheal! Thank you for the comparison. I'd like to offer insight on the fans. You can use the on board thermister of the e3 turbo to make the controller fan thermostatically controlled as well. We have a few videos on that over at our channel. Thanks for your great videos!
Upgrading from a Tronxy Chitcu board to a BTT E3 Turbo, but there isn't a video for that conversion. Still this video answered a lot of questions. Hoping the tronxy wiring isn't too far off from this.
Teaching Tech, is it possible for you to make a guide on how to upgrade a CR-10 with these boards? All guides are always on the Ender-3, but I suspect there are many with CR-10s that want to upgrade those printers with 32-bit-boards. The manufacturers only make bin-files for the Ender-3.
I just received Robin E3 for my Ender 3 pro and planned to use Klipper but have been having issues connecting to the board after flashing it with klipper. I can go back to Marlin just fine so it is a problem with the bin file produced from the klipper compile. I followed the suggested menuconfig settings from the Robin E3 example .cfg file and no luck. I’ve double checked the /dev/serial/by-id/ directory and matched entry with my printer.cfg but just won’t connect. I’ve used klipper successfully with my Maker Select with a ramps setup and Ender 3 pro with stock creality 4.2.2 board so I’m somewhat familiar with getting klipper running but I’m just about stumped on this one.
Personally I'd keep the original board and just add in a $10 raspberry pi zero w wired directly to the old mainboard (using the tx,Rx,5v,GND pins.) I hope you will look more into this in the future as marlin just needs to go away now, no-one should ever need to install developer tools and recompile software to change a printer setting. You can flash klipper/fluidd once using a pre supplied sd card image, then edit the printer settings from a nice web page. It can compensate for ghosting, has built in calibration tower tools, it's quieter, faster, updates in one click, has great docs, cheaper, and fluidd makes octoprint look very dated.
Hey, thanks for the video ! Does any of them work with Ender 3 v2 LCD screen ? Or if I plan to upgrade my ender 3 v2 should I order a new LCD for those mainboards ?
Another good (knowledgeable) video mate. Thanks. No sucking up, but your GitHub & YT are the first places I look when I'm stuck. Question: I print as a hobby (e.g. I'm going to try and make a magazine for my .22 air rifle next) and find the Creality 4.2.2 satisfactory but always looking to improve. Would upgrading to the BTT board help me get better prints (all things being equal)? I run dual z drives off a parallel cable and wonder if the BTT is better for this setup.
Great video, will follow it soon to install one of these boards. Will you be updating your SKR E3 Turbo GitHub Marlin branch? They have example config files for it on Marlin main but your take on it is a bit more refined.
damn this reminds me of the struggle to create my firmware for the ender5 and skr 1.3, printing 180° shifted, basicly endstop x and y were max, not min..... that took me some days to find
Great stuff :). I got an MKS Robin on a whim just to have as a backup board and ended up using it a lot more than I thought. Love the additional 12/24v ports it has built in. I'm struggling to find any resources regarding using thermocouples and amplifier boards with any of these boards. I bought a k-type thermocouple and AD8495 analog amplifier and have yet to use it because I'm really not sure where I should assign pins and what to change in Marlin. Any advice on that? Maybe a future video if this is something you have experience with? Love the content! Keep it up you are the spearhead of 3D printer education!
Hi Michael, I have question, since I read issues with MKS E3/3D board on github with incialize the eeprom, they must use an sd card to save any changes in printer (external eeprom) forexample extruder steps. Without SD card it doesnt work. Did you tried it and you had a problem like that ?
Awesome, I am also a BTT SKR E3 mini V2 user and love the board but I think this one could be ordered soon. One question on the serial port selection I saw for the BTT board its -1 and 0. Is that for all BTT boards or just this one? I haven't been able to find any information to tell me which to use. Currently using 2, -1 and I do get odd serial issues with Octoprint.
So, if I have a CR-10, do you have a recommendation based on all the upgrade boards out there, for what you would consider to be the best mods to make the Ultimate CR-10?
SKR Mini E3 Turbo doesn’t seem to work with my TFT35 E3 V3 no matter what serial ports are inputted and no matter how I match the board rates, FULL discount graphic chosen as well as stock cr-10 display are defined and still no printer attached, I have another printer with a SKR Mini E3 V2 and a TFT35 E3 V3 and they work fine together but just won’t happen with my SKR Mini E3 Turbo….?
Thanks for making this video and I have the e3 turbo which I haven't been able to use successfully because I'm installing it in the CR10S and I'm having problems with wiring or something because everything has been running backwards which I don't understand why it's happening since the original CR10S main board was working fine when I decided to upgrade to the bigtreetech main board. Also instead of cutting holes in the original case and since I have big ass fingers it's always a real pain to plug in the wires I printed out a much earlier case to install everything into. I also added bigger and better mosfets to the hotend and headed bed which I'm not even sure that I need but I was hoping to get the bed to heat up faster. I'm not sure if it will make any difference on adding a mosfet for the hotend but I was wondering if over time adding the mosfet to the hotend would have a way to extend the life of the board or would it not matter at all and only do damage over time. Anyway if you could make a video about installing the e3 turbo into a CR10S that would be awesome thank for all your videos as they have helped me through some troubles and learning more about my printers and how to set things up.
Can you please do a video on klipper firmware/mainsail/fluidd. I think it's way better than marlin and it has improved a lot since last year. More people should use it
Do you know if any of these boards have or could be configured to operate a 4th axis for a cnc router? Thanks to your videos I was able to get my Creality Ender4 working when the board crashed, only took me about a month or two because I could not get the motors to operate in the correct directions until I had the firmware set just perfect.
BTT stuff tends to have alot of issues that is a result from poor engineering and lack of QC. Easy example, SKR 1.4's where shipping with 100/1k resistors instead of 10k resistors for the endstops so sensors like a bltouch or ezabl would be permanently triggered, or how the skr mini v1.0-v1.2 always had driver failure because they cheaped out on the pcb copper amount and layers(just like creality does on the V1.1.5 and V4).
My E3 Turbo has been working really well. There was one day when the display was glitchy (I got their TFT35 board as well). It stopped being glitchy after some rest and has been fine ever sense. I often have to tap on the screen a couple of times for my touches to register. As far as quality... I was disappointed by the stickiness of the heat sinks. It didn't seem like they were sticking very tightly. My box is closed, so I can't tell whether they have fallen off.
The E3 Turbo has a big problem with its onboard inductors. I wrote a post about that on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/BIGTREETECH/comments/kar8u7/why_you_should_not_buy_bigtreetech_boards_why/? BTT says they fixed the problem, however you can't be sure to get one of those fixed boards when you order online, so you should definitely check for the problem.
I had some issues installing the E3 Turbo just this week, the TFT serial port was dead on arrival unfortunately, I tried everything, including changing the serial port on the screen but no avail, in the end it turned out to be the board. I understand that sometimes things slip through so I just set it aside as a spare and ordered an E3 Mini as a replacement as it was the one in stock in my country as I didn't want to wait one to arrive from abroad and I haven't had the same issues. I ran a 30 hour print on the Turbo, though and it was doing all right as far as prints go. btw, On my end to move to an SKR from the original E3 board I took my marlin config files with all the stuff I had and downloaded the config zip for marlin from their official marlin config repo, looked up the marlin configs from the ender 3 folder and diff'd them with my working E3 original board configs, adapted any config that I made, left everything related to stepper inversion, ports and the like and it worked painlessly.
Thank you for this video am still pretty new to 3D printing and just considering updating my main board to the SKR mini e3 v2 with bl touch and touch screen. It is just the coding that scares me. Also have you done a video on big tree tech auto shutoff. I do not run octoprint so looking for another way to do it. Thank you.
Hi! I like so much your video!! I want to ask you wich screen are you using? I like I watched and want to get it, because you can change from marlin interface to touch interface! Do you have other video explainin it?? (i search it but I can't find it) Thanks!!
I use 2 mks e3 for my ender 3, this good value, after i halted my skr 1.3 board, i never purchased board from biqu again, And please make review about reprap board like mellow ply rrf e3 😀
everything works well. but each time i start the printer i hear the buzzer going off and then it stop and everything is working normally. any thoughts what could that be?
From owning both, other than firmware being a bit more confusing to configure, there are 2 main differences: 1. The MKS robin supports both 12v and 24v on it's raw power outputs for things like the hotend fan, making installing 12v fans much easier. 2. The SKR E3 is a much more mirrored version of the original board with the key difference to the MKS being that the MKS has only a single PWM controlled fan mosfet however, with 2 outputs, Whilst both the Vanilla and SKR have 2 separate PWM Mosfets, each with a corresponding output. I'd say that is the main negative of the MKS as the system fan now has to be plugged into a permanent power slot as otherwise when printing materials such as TPU and PETG with no part cooling fan would also mean the system fan is off. Also I think only V1.1 of the MKS comes with an onboard EEPROM whilst the V1 still depends on saving it's settings to the SD card by default. Hope this helps
so I tried following this install guide for the SKR Turbo. I see on the screen for the one set of red/black wires that are power into the board. but i don't see on the screen where to put the 2nd set of of red/black big exposed cables. Any ideas? I have the red black thin cables labeled 24v into the black knobs closed to the green detachable ports. the green detachable have the dual red wires.
I can’t get the E0 driver to work when using the BTT E3 Turbo for a CR-10 and using the E1 driver for the second Z stepper. It works in every way except it will not extrude. It homes, BLTouch works, auto z-alignment works, everything but the extruder. Sending terminal commands, gcode, or using ‘move axis’ on the display to move the extruder will not work. This is the second board and I’ve swapped cabling around and the cables work fine. Maddening!
Hi. Do you think it is a good kit replacement for everything in my Tronxy xy 2 pro printer as it has a fan board port burned and this kit is cheaper than a Tronxy mainboard besides I can move to Marlin? I would appreciate your advice.
Another great video! I have the E3 Turbo which I bought when I was a neophyte, 2 months ago :-) I was looking for quiet drivers over my stock E3 board so I bought the Turbo over a Creality alternative becuase of the additional Z-axis and extruder control. My frustration is that I cannot control _all_ my fans. I wish the fan2 connector (which you showed in the video) were programmable. I ended up connecting my board's fan to fan1 and adding a manual command to turn the E1 fan on to 50%. That still leaves my hotend fan running too noisily. Maybe I'll swap control to the hotend fan and leave the board-fan at 100%, since the hotend fan is more noticable. I was wondering whether sensor stops were simply controlled by removal of the jumbers next to the corresponding driver chips... by your video, it looks like I will have to rebuild the firmware to make that work. I have a BLTouch on order, so I'm looking forward to automating my bed leveling.
On my Skr E3 turbo, the board fan is running at full speed, I used Michaels pin layout, any suggestions. I am using BTT provided firmware, and one more thing, I can't seem to get negative values for Z axis, it just wont go below 0,any advise would be appreciated. Thanks.
I am trying to adda second z motor to an ender 3 v2 with independent control but i cant seem to find the BTT SKR E3 Turbo anywhere, any recommendations on alternatives?
im contemplating the turbo, i upgraded my ender 3 board to the 4.2.7 but im getting some really bad clunking when x axis rapids (if move head quick i get feedback and a kind of braking effect, if i unplug stepper motor its all completley smooth.) a second Z stepper motor would be good. my bltouch has a single plug on it. plugged directly into the board. and i think the turbo has the same port. why would i not use that over the splitting into z endstop?
I all just have an issue. Ive just upgrade my cr10s with a skr min turbo but, it tries to auto bed level from start and heat the bed and nossel. Then when it try to heat he bed it fails. When I hook up a MM to the on board mosfet i see it turn on and off until failure. I appreciate in advance.
Stay away from the firmware-update section as far as possible or your day is ruined. Use the standard driver from Bigtreetech and stick to it. (#include errors for Ender3 ... a clear software fault)
you said the btt e3 turbo would fit in the ender 5 but you did not mention that it wouldn't fit with the psu. I had to print a bracket for it to move it a bit over to the side to fit the wider board. thing:4785269
Michael, why are you always downloading Marlin as a zip file? It is so much easier to just get a local git copy of it, add a branch with your own config changes and build from that. Every now and then you then just do a "git fetch" to get the latest changes from Marlin and rebase your branch on that latest state. Git then immediately indicates whether some of the new changes somehow don't mix well with your configuration and you can "resolve" those conflicts instead of having to do a complete config adaptation every time. I get that some people might now be thinking that this is way too complex, but really, once you understand it, it's way easier than every time starting from a new zip and default config. Maybe a topic for a video?
I agree with you 100% and use GitHub desktop to manage all my firmware. I have a video on it too. If I presented it this way in every video people would be lost pretty quickly.
Ok so you said the skr E3 turbo has independent z control and sensorless homing so is there a way i could use sensorless homing and use one of the unused endstops for g34 auto traming
Hi, I have the MKS Robin E3 V1.1 and am having trouble with the part cooling fan and the mainboard fan. Both are not working. Can anyone offer any advice on how to fix it?
Has anyone gotten Micheal's MKS Robin E3 firmware to compile with a 2023 build of VS Code and PlatformIO? There's nothing but errors and incompatibilities that can't be fixed unless you "upgrade to the latest version of Marlin" which you'll have to reconfigure for the MKS Robin E3 (hope you know what to do). This is why I want to use a MKS Robin E3 ready firmware build, but that seems EOL'd.
Hi, I am currently looking up configs for Ender 5 and the Robin E3. I have found one by MKS but when I follow the tutorial I am stuck at the auto compiling step (I am missing the MEGA enviroments for the compilation and I dont know why). The MKS' version for Ender 5 seems a bit unfinished. Would anyone know where I can find functionable confing for Robin E3 and Ender 5? Thank a lot for help
I have two 3D printers running RepRapFirmware, with videos about each of them. I have another with Lerdge, one soon to be Klipper, the rest Marlin. I 'd say the distribution of firmware across my machines probably reflects what the community is using, and that is by design.
Does anyone know if these boards will work with the Voxelab Aquila? Specifically Im wondering if its compatible with the screen. The Aquila screen needs its own firmware so how would that work?
How do these board behave when you have usb plugged in? my SKR Mini E3 V2.0 keeps running if 5v power is supplied from the usb port but the printer is turned off, is that also the case on the MKS Robin E3 or SKR Mini E3 Turbo?
I just received Robin E3D but v1.1 instead of 1.0 and I cant find the right firmware. With firmware for v1.0 "Z" step motor doesn't work. Any help will be appreciated.
Just modify Michael firmware and search for #define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_MKS_ROBIN_E3, and put in its place this: #define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_MKS_ROBIN_E3_V1_1 , this should work. Version 1.1 has changed some pin layout for z axis so it is defined as another motherboard.
You have an uncanny ability to publish these videos EXACTLY when I need them. Thanks so much!
You are so welcome! Good luck with your install.
I can't believe we're getting all this help for free. Thank you so much. Without you, I don't think I would be 3D printing!
I think I was one of the earliest people to try mks Robin e3d (I bought it with tmc2209). I'm super satisfied. I used to have skr mini e3 v1.2 which fried after a month, but mks works with no problem for quite some time. Sometimes on bltouch clones it fails to probe correctly - I bumped up length of signal and decreased probing speed and it works correctly now. At first firmware support was poor, but marlin community did an outstanding job. It's way easier than it used to be as you can see on the video, but I'm sticking to my fork as it works for now ;)
As a person who had both mks and skr: go MKS, cheaper and just as good if not even better. Outstanding board for just $20
Feel free to ask me any questions.
My ender 3 has been running perfectly for a couple of years now. I can 100% chalk that up to your videos. Amazing work, keep it up!
Wow. I did not think that adding a second extruder could be facilitated by a new main board. I am excited to set up a second extruder for flexible materials.
Another thumbs up for uploading videos right when we need them. Just bought a MKS Robin E3D board and here is a 2 weeks old complete tutorial. Thank you very much sir.
The video I have waited for! I bought the E3 Turbo last month over the v1.4 due to being already set up with TMC2209s. First main board replacement on my Ender 3 and first major upgrade with the BTT TFT 43! Great videos - always the channel I look for when searching printing videos!
Your timing is, as always, perfectly in sync with my upgrade schedule. Thanks a bunch. This is a huge timesaver!
I’m attempting the skr install on my cr10 mini, might be blowing up your feed lol
Great videos, honestly probably the best tech 3D print channel on yt
Great timing. I ordered an MKS E3 to replace my SKR Mini E3 that I burnt by connecting the blower fan in reverse polarity. However, I've since fixed it so will have 2 silent boards.
Nice work on the fix. Most people would have to bin it.
@@TeachingTechThanks! fixing it was the most fun I've had with my 3D printer. I've learnt so much about mosfets and and the electronics that power the heating and cooling side of the board.
Awesome! Just what i need! Got my mks E3P v2.0 with mks ts35 display and tmc2209 couple of hours ago.
It's going on old modified cr10s.
Excellent and in-depth video as usually! Thank you!
First time hearing about MKS Robin E3. Pricing is very tempting.
There is a better card from MKS for Ender series. Its called MKS Robin E3P
I just compared these boards to the Anycubic Mega Zero 2.0. Turns out they are also a replacement for my new Mega Zero! Thank you TT, SKR E3 on my list.
Love your Content Man... Was very helpful to me in the past when I got started, and I can still count on you for the inside scoop on things like this !! Nice Job ....
As usual great content for peeps who want to upgrade and who are looking to swap out their mainboards.
May I pitch two proposals for new videos:
1. Marlin Touch UI
2. Bigtreetech Rumba32
Well if I don't end up getting a warranty replacement from BTT for my dead CPU out of the box new SKR 2 than I plan to purchase a MKS Robin E3 for my RepRap Guru i3 3D printer. Just looking to go 32 bit as I've gone through a few RAMPS 1.4 and 1.6+ boards. After about a week of no replies from Big Tree Tech support I reached out on Twitter, facebook and Instagram to finally get a response on Facebook. So it appears I might get a warranty replacement SKR 2. I was on the fence about either getting a BTT SKR 2 or MKS Robin E3 board. I figure better quality for more money but was wrong, dead out of the box. Great video by the way!
You are always a lifesaver! Thank for everything you've done mate.
Excellent to see you have some McLaren kit for Danny Ric. Sure looking to see how he and Lando go this year. Think they will have some great results.
Great video as always!!! Thank you!! I'd love to see a video on the SKR Pro V1.2 - that board has alot of potential, but currently no videos.
I'll be using one on the corexy build series that's coming up
@@TeachingTech can't wait for that video series, I will definitely keep an eye out!!
Another great video. Since my Alfawise u30 has the E3 Robin, it's been going much better
Im a bigtreetech fan after their e3 v2 in my ender 3. So I'm keen to try their latest version.
Thankyou for this video man! I ended up ordering the MKS Robin E3 V1.1 though and I was lucky to discover that H and A are reversed on this board. Im not sure if thats meant to be or not, but it seems to be working ok.
Solid video, thanks for the great information! Makerbase has a Duet 2 wifi clone I would like to try, wish they sold it on Amazon because I wont order anything from Aliexpress.
Awesome video as always. I think I'm gonna have to order a couple of the turbo boards to add dual extrusion and dual z on my ender 3 pro and ender extender 400 xl respectively.
Me and a lot of people are having lots of trouble with SKR E3 Turbo: You can read at github's SKR E· Turbo issue number 31:
Steppers burned, extruders melted, ruined prints...
Not a single word from bigtreetech regarding this very dangerous problem
Third time i write this comment, expecting not to be erased again.
So I did some digging, you and one other person are the only ones to have this issue. I checked the github, and it was just you and one other person, not the “lots of people” you claimed. github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-SKR-E3-Turbo/issues/31
Also, there is the “extruders melting” from. I know older E3 Turbos and v1.2s had resistor issues, but it has been fixed by now, and can be fairly easily fixed on older boards.
@@derektran9404 please digg better, not only my oppened issue. Check all the github from bigtreetech regarding mottors extreamly hot and noissy. Also check on reddit for the same thing. This is happeninmg to a lot of people, also with the E3 mini that is older than the turbo.
No one is deleting your comments from here. I very rarely have to do it and it's only for extreme cases like profanity. My policy is to give credit where due when things work and highlight problems. My track record reflects that and I will publicise any problems I have with this board. So far, so good for both boards in this video.
@@pozi78 Seems to me the issues are people don't have proper vrefs set, any mention of this issue is pretty scarce. As mentioned before, the V1.2 had the thermistor issue but nothing about the stepper issue.
@@TeachingTech Maybe it was because i was posting the link to the github issue the other two times. As soon as I delted the ling the comment remained. I don´t know. But 20 seconds after adding the comment it just disapered. My appologies
I have stooped buying bigtree tech gear as its failure rate is amazingly bad as in 3 out of 3 board and 2 screens on 3 different printers have all died or have reoccurring problems over the last year. I have ordered the MKS Robin E3P kit with its really cool touch screen for my ender3 pro. It actually shows a picture of what you want to print and are printing on the screen much better than trying to read abbreviated or cut off file names. It cost me $65 bucks AUD for the Robin E3P 4 tmc 2209 drivers screen to fit a E3 and wifi module. As Makerbase have been around a lot longer than BTT and I have never had any of their older 8 bit board die. I'm hoping this will be a better and cheaper setup.
Rocking that new DR3 mclaren shirt!
The robins seem a perfect mobo to use with klipper, one can just buy 2 of them for less than the price of the SKR, to have twice of everything. It may not have screen support with klipper but I don't care about screens when I only use it through wifi on the PC or the phone.
Hi Micheal! Thank you for the comparison. I'd like to offer insight on the fans. You can use the on board thermister of the e3 turbo to make the controller fan thermostatically controlled as well. We have a few videos on that over at our channel. Thanks for your great videos!
Upgrading from a Tronxy Chitcu board to a BTT E3 Turbo, but there isn't a video for that conversion. Still this video answered a lot of questions. Hoping the tronxy wiring isn't too far off from this.
BTT has released a new skr board, the SKR2. It looks interesting =)
Teaching Tech, is it possible for you to make a guide on how to upgrade a CR-10 with these boards? All guides are always on the Ender-3, but I suspect there are many with CR-10s that want to upgrade those printers with 32-bit-boards. The manufacturers only make bin-files for the Ender-3.
I just received Robin E3 for my Ender 3 pro and planned to use Klipper but have been having issues connecting to the board after flashing it with klipper. I can go back to Marlin just fine so it is a problem with the bin file produced from the klipper compile. I followed the suggested menuconfig settings from the Robin E3 example .cfg file and no luck. I’ve double checked the /dev/serial/by-id/ directory and matched entry with my printer.cfg but just won’t connect. I’ve used klipper successfully with my Maker Select with a ramps setup and Ender 3 pro with stock creality 4.2.2 board so I’m somewhat familiar with getting klipper running but I’m just about stumped on this one.
I have SKR 1.4t and upgraded from GenL, so hoping for better print quality.
Heh. I JUST ordered a BTT SKR E3 Turbo. How CONVENIENT!
Hope you will have a good experience with our E3 turbo
Personally I'd keep the original board and just add in a $10 raspberry pi zero w wired directly to the old mainboard (using the tx,Rx,5v,GND pins.) I hope you will look more into this in the future as marlin just needs to go away now, no-one should ever need to install developer tools and recompile software to change a printer setting. You can flash klipper/fluidd once using a pre supplied sd card image, then edit the printer settings from a nice web page. It can compensate for ghosting, has built in calibration tower tools, it's quieter, faster, updates in one click, has great docs, cheaper, and fluidd makes octoprint look very dated.
Hey, thanks for the video ! Does any of them work with Ender 3 v2 LCD screen ? Or if I plan to upgrade my ender 3 v2 should I order a new LCD for those mainboards ?
it will be nice to see a review on MKS Robin Nano V3 and MKS Duet 2 Wifi!
i could of really used this guide last week.
Another good (knowledgeable) video mate. Thanks. No sucking up, but your GitHub & YT are the first places I look when I'm stuck. Question: I print as a hobby (e.g. I'm going to try and make a magazine for my .22 air rifle next) and find the Creality 4.2.2 satisfactory but always looking to improve. Would upgrading to the BTT board help me get better prints (all things being equal)? I run dual z drives off a parallel cable and wonder if the BTT is better for this setup.
Great video, will follow it soon to install one of these boards.
Will you be updating your SKR E3 Turbo GitHub Marlin branch?
They have example config files for it on Marlin main but your take on it is a bit more refined.
damn this reminds me of the struggle to create my firmware for the ender5 and skr 1.3, printing 180° shifted, basicly endstop x and y were max, not min..... that took me some days to find
Lol, I ordered an MKS Robin E3 just before this video ^_^
Great stuff :). I got an MKS Robin on a whim just to have as a backup board and ended up using it a lot more than I thought. Love the additional 12/24v ports it has built in.
I'm struggling to find any resources regarding using thermocouples and amplifier boards with any of these boards. I bought a k-type thermocouple and AD8495 analog amplifier and have yet to use it because I'm really not sure where I should assign pins and what to change in Marlin. Any advice on that? Maybe a future video if this is something you have experience with?
Love the content! Keep it up you are the spearhead of 3D printer education!
Hi Michael, I have question, since I read issues with MKS E3/3D board on github with incialize the eeprom, they must use an sd card to save any changes in printer (external eeprom) forexample extruder steps. Without SD card it doesnt work. Did you tried it and you had a problem like that ?
6:08 Installation:
"Step one: Jack up your car... "
Then insert sticks of dynamite under the back wheels, step three, drive to the store.
Can you show how to use the E3 Turbo with the Ender 3 V2 DWIN display?
Awesome, I am also a BTT SKR E3 mini V2 user and love the board but I think this one could be ordered soon. One question on the serial port selection I saw for the BTT board its -1 and 0. Is that for all BTT boards or just this one? I haven't been able to find any information to tell me which to use. Currently using 2, -1 and I do get odd serial issues with Octoprint.
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Hi for you what is the best price/performance Board for Ender 3 V2? Thanks and keep the good work
So, if I have a CR-10, do you have a recommendation based on all the upgrade boards out there, for what you would consider to be the best mods to make the Ultimate CR-10?
SKR Mini E3 Turbo doesn’t seem to work with my TFT35 E3 V3 no matter what serial ports are inputted and no matter how I match the board rates, FULL discount graphic chosen as well as stock cr-10 display are defined and still no printer attached, I have another printer with a SKR Mini E3 V2 and a TFT35 E3 V3 and they work fine together but just won’t happen with my SKR Mini E3 Turbo….?
nice one!))) have ordered mks robin nano 3 - what to try it instead of skr 1.4t )))
Another great, detailed and useful video. Any chance you'll look at the Bigtree RRF E3?
Thanks for making this video and I have the e3 turbo which I haven't been able to use successfully because I'm installing it in the CR10S and I'm having problems with wiring or something because everything has been running backwards which I don't understand why it's happening since the original CR10S main board was working fine when I decided to upgrade to the bigtreetech main board. Also instead of cutting holes in the original case and since I have big ass fingers it's always a real pain to plug in the wires I printed out a much earlier case to install everything into. I also added bigger and better mosfets to the hotend and headed bed which I'm not even sure that I need but I was hoping to get the bed to heat up faster. I'm not sure if it will make any difference on adding a mosfet for the hotend but I was wondering if over time adding the mosfet to the hotend would have a way to extend the life of the board or would it not matter at all and only do damage over time. Anyway if you could make a video about installing the e3 turbo into a CR10S that would be awesome thank for all your videos as they have helped me through some troubles and learning more about my printers and how to set things up.
Can you please do a video on klipper firmware/mainsail/fluidd. I think it's way better than marlin and it has improved a lot since last year. More people should use it
Do you know if any of these boards have or could be configured to operate a 4th axis for a cnc router? Thanks to your videos I was able to get my Creality Ender4 working when the board crashed, only took me about a month or two because I could not get the motors to operate in the correct directions until I had the firmware set just perfect.
It is great solution for my klipper fo silent steppers
I heard a lot of issues with the skr E.... And bigtreetech? Something that they have so said?
BTT stuff tends to have alot of issues that is a result from poor engineering and lack of QC. Easy example, SKR 1.4's where shipping with 100/1k resistors instead of 10k resistors for the endstops so sensors like a bltouch or ezabl would be permanently triggered, or how the skr mini v1.0-v1.2 always had driver failure because they cheaped out on the pcb copper amount and layers(just like creality does on the V1.1.5 and V4).
My E3 Turbo has been working really well. There was one day when the display was glitchy (I got their TFT35 board as well). It stopped being glitchy after some rest and has been fine ever sense. I often have to tap on the screen a couple of times for my touches to register.
As far as quality... I was disappointed by the stickiness of the heat sinks. It didn't seem like they were sticking very tightly. My box is closed, so I can't tell whether they have fallen off.
The E3 Turbo has a big problem with its onboard inductors. I wrote a post about that on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/BIGTREETECH/comments/kar8u7/why_you_should_not_buy_bigtreetech_boards_why/?
BTT says they fixed the problem, however you can't be sure to get one of those fixed boards when you order online, so you should definitely check for the problem.
I had some issues installing the E3 Turbo just this week, the TFT serial port was dead on arrival unfortunately, I tried everything, including changing the serial port on the screen but no avail, in the end it turned out to be the board. I understand that sometimes things slip through so I just set it aside as a spare and ordered an E3 Mini as a replacement as it was the one in stock in my country as I didn't want to wait one to arrive from abroad and I haven't had the same issues.
I ran a 30 hour print on the Turbo, though and it was doing all right as far as prints go.
btw, On my end to move to an SKR from the original E3 board I took my marlin config files with all the stuff I had and downloaded the config zip for marlin from their official marlin config repo, looked up the marlin configs from the ender 3 folder and diff'd them with my working E3 original board configs, adapted any config that I made, left everything related to stepper inversion, ports and the like and it worked painlessly.
I'm gona pickup the skr mini E3 dip(with heated bed) And TMC 2209
Thank you for this video am still pretty new to 3D printing and just considering updating my main board to the SKR mini e3 v2 with bl touch and touch screen. It is just the coding that scares me. Also have you done a video on big tree tech auto shutoff. I do not run octoprint so looking for another way to do it. Thank you.
Great video!
Hi! I like so much your video!! I want to ask you wich screen are you using? I like I watched and want to get it, because you can change from marlin interface to touch interface! Do you have other video explainin it?? (i search it but I can't find it) Thanks!!
I use 2 mks e3 for my ender 3, this good value, after i halted my skr 1.3 board, i never purchased board from biqu again,
And please make review about reprap board like mellow ply rrf e3 😀
Hello ! What connectors do you use to plug your fan into your main board? Any links to purchase them ? Thank you, greetings from France !
Make sure the SKR E3 Turbo is the newest revision as the ones made before Dec 2020 are defective out of the box
How can i tell ? I bought mine october 2021.
everything works well. but each time i start the printer i hear the buzzer going off and then it stop and everything is working normally.
any thoughts what could that be?
A comparison between the SKR E3 and the Robin would be nice, I don't know what's the functional difference between them
From owning both, other than firmware being a bit more confusing to configure, there are 2 main differences:
1. The MKS robin supports both 12v and 24v on it's raw power outputs for things like the hotend fan, making installing 12v fans much easier.
2. The SKR E3 is a much more mirrored version of the original board with the key difference to the MKS being that the MKS has only a single PWM controlled fan mosfet however, with 2 outputs, Whilst both the Vanilla and SKR have 2 separate PWM Mosfets, each with a corresponding output. I'd say that is the main negative of the MKS as the system fan now has to be plugged into a permanent power slot as otherwise when printing materials such as TPU and PETG with no part cooling fan would also mean the system fan is off.
Also I think only V1.1 of the MKS comes with an onboard EEPROM whilst the V1 still depends on saving it's settings to the SD card by default.
Hope this helps
인트로는 자동 번역을 누를 시간을 주는 것 같아 편해요. ^^
so I tried following this install guide for the SKR Turbo. I see on the screen for the one set of red/black wires that are power into the board. but i don't see on the screen where to put the 2nd set of of red/black big exposed cables. Any ideas? I have the red black thin cables labeled 24v into the black knobs closed to the green detachable ports. the green detachable have the dual red wires.
I can’t get the E0 driver to work when using the BTT E3 Turbo for a CR-10 and using the E1 driver for the second Z stepper. It works in every way except it will not extrude. It homes, BLTouch works, auto z-alignment works, everything but the extruder. Sending terminal commands, gcode, or using ‘move axis’ on the display to move the extruder will not work. This is the second board and I’ve swapped cabling around and the cables work fine. Maddening!
Hi. Do you think it is a good kit replacement for everything in my Tronxy xy 2 pro printer as it has a fan board port burned and this kit is cheaper than a Tronxy mainboard besides I can move to Marlin? I would appreciate your advice.
Love you vids ;)
Another great video! I have the E3 Turbo which I bought when I was a neophyte, 2 months ago :-) I was looking for quiet drivers over my stock E3 board so I bought the Turbo over a Creality alternative becuase of the additional Z-axis and extruder control.
My frustration is that I cannot control _all_ my fans. I wish the fan2 connector (which you showed in the video) were programmable. I ended up connecting my board's fan to fan1 and adding a manual command to turn the E1 fan on to 50%. That still leaves my hotend fan running too noisily. Maybe I'll swap control to the hotend fan and leave the board-fan at 100%, since the hotend fan is more noticable.
I was wondering whether sensor stops were simply controlled by removal of the jumbers next to the corresponding driver chips... by your video, it looks like I will have to rebuild the firmware to make that work.
I have a BLTouch on order, so I'm looking forward to automating my bed leveling.
On my Skr E3 turbo, the board fan is running at full speed, I used Michaels pin layout, any suggestions. I am using BTT provided firmware, and one more thing, I can't seem to get negative values for Z axis, it just wont go below 0,any advise would be appreciated. Thanks.
Are u saying that the BTT TFT35 will work with the MKS Robin ? If so ,i cant find how to wire it up. Thx
I bought one to add a second hotend just for nylon
I am trying to adda second z motor to an ender 3 v2 with independent control but i cant seem to find the BTT SKR E3 Turbo anywhere, any recommendations on alternatives?
I must have dropped sync somewhere, what are Neo-Pixels and what will they do for me?
im contemplating the turbo, i upgraded my ender 3 board to the 4.2.7 but im getting some really bad clunking when x axis rapids (if move head quick i get feedback and a kind of braking effect, if i unplug stepper motor its all completley smooth.)
a second Z stepper motor would be good.
my bltouch has a single plug on it. plugged directly into the board. and i think the turbo has the same port. why would i not use that over the splitting into z endstop?
I all just have an issue. Ive just upgrade my cr10s with a skr min turbo but, it tries to auto bed level from start and heat the bed and nossel. Then when it try to heat he bed it fails. When I hook up a MM to the on board mosfet i see it turn on and off until failure. I appreciate in advance.
Stay away from the firmware-update section as far as possible or your day is ruined. Use the standard driver from Bigtreetech and stick to it. (#include errors for Ender3 ... a clear software fault)
you said the btt e3 turbo would fit in the ender 5 but you did not mention that it wouldn't fit with the psu. I had to print a bracket for it to move it a bit over to the side to fit the wider board. thing:4785269
Michael, why are you always downloading Marlin as a zip file? It is so much easier to just get a local git copy of it, add a branch with your own config changes and build from that. Every now and then you then just do a "git fetch" to get the latest changes from Marlin and rebase your branch on that latest state. Git then immediately indicates whether some of the new changes somehow don't mix well with your configuration and you can "resolve" those conflicts instead of having to do a complete config adaptation every time. I get that some people might now be thinking that this is way too complex, but really, once you understand it, it's way easier than every time starting from a new zip and default config. Maybe a topic for a video?
I agree with you 100% and use GitHub desktop to manage all my firmware. I have a video on it too. If I presented it this way in every video people would be lost pretty quickly.
Ok so you said the skr E3 turbo has independent z control and sensorless homing so is there a way i could use sensorless homing and use one of the unused endstops for g34 auto traming
Could the BTT SKR E3 Turbo be used on a CoreXY printer?
Anyone know where the SKR E3 Turbo config file has gone? there is the 1.4 turbo but thats it :(
Hi, I have the MKS Robin E3 V1.1 and am having trouble with the part cooling fan and the mainboard fan. Both are not working. Can anyone offer any advice on how to fix it?
I have a 2nd Ender 3 that still has the default board and I want to run Arc Welder on it, will this board support Arcs?
Any idea to get this MKS MINI V3 lcd work with MKS Robin e3 v 1.1?
Will the MKS Robin E3 work with my stock Ender 3 Pro LCD w/rotary wheel?
Yes it will
the cr10 don't have a config example for the robin its been giving me problems
Has anyone gotten Micheal's MKS Robin E3 firmware to compile with a 2023 build of VS Code and PlatformIO? There's nothing but errors and incompatibilities that can't be fixed unless you "upgrade to the latest version of Marlin" which you'll have to reconfigure for the MKS Robin E3 (hope you know what to do). This is why I want to use a MKS Robin E3 ready firmware build, but that seems EOL'd.
Hi, I am currently looking up configs for Ender 5 and the Robin E3. I have found one by MKS but when I follow the tutorial I am stuck at the auto compiling step (I am missing the MEGA enviroments for the compilation and I dont know why). The MKS' version for Ender 5 seems a bit unfinished. Would anyone know where I can find functionable confing for Robin E3 and Ender 5? Thank a lot for help
What about duet mainboards? You don't talk a lot about them.
theyre too expensive for the everyday hobbyist
But considering having to create a custom build and using a Rapsberry PI for remote access, the different isn't too much.
@@DiomedesDominguez a pi zero is 5 bucks 2nd hand and custom builds are rarely needed
If you use a zero for octoprint I end my case.
I have two 3D printers running RepRapFirmware, with videos about each of them. I have another with Lerdge, one soon to be Klipper, the rest Marlin. I 'd say the distribution of firmware across my machines probably reflects what the community is using, and that is by design.
Does anyone know if these boards will work with the Voxelab Aquila? Specifically Im wondering if its compatible with the screen. The Aquila screen needs its own firmware so how would that work?
How do these board behave when you have usb plugged in? my SKR Mini E3 V2.0 keeps running if 5v power is supplied from the usb port but the printer is turned off, is that also the case on the MKS Robin E3 or SKR Mini E3 Turbo?
Cut a smallpiece of tape and tape over your usb's left most or right most pin. That way power wont be supplied through usb but data still go through
I just received Robin E3D but v1.1 instead of 1.0 and I cant find the right firmware. With firmware for v1.0 "Z" step motor doesn't work. Any help will be appreciated.
Just modify Michael firmware and search for #define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_MKS_ROBIN_E3, and put in its place this: #define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_MKS_ROBIN_E3_V1_1 , this should work. Version 1.1 has changed some pin layout for z axis so it is defined as another motherboard.