Great review as always! An interesting motion system, and you're right, a real head scratcher there with the filament path. I'm actually kind of pleased that it's way out of my price range.
I remember seeing this at a show a while back and being intrigued with the implementation of linear motors on a consumer-grade machine. The price was and still is a little steep, but I get it for the hardware. I rather wonder if the the ringing isn't tied to the differential of the axes themselves and the way the movement is calculated for the linear motors. On the power tripping the breaker, I've gotten more and more sure that running the juice through a UPS helps tremendously with smoothing out the impulses/frequency in delivery on my printers, namely that we're in an older house with mixed aged wiring on about 50% of the circuits. We've updated a lot, but some of it is still circa 1960s-1980s depending on where it is in the house. Might be worth a shot. Good review and I enjoyed your style!
Circuit breakers are generally pretty forgiving of surges. It takes a sustained overcurrent condition to trip an average breaker, unless maybe this is an AFCI breaker (trips on arc fault detection in addition to overcurrent).
Nice to see another video Bryan ! I do believe those artifacts are from the individual neodymium magnets the space in between them causes a skip you can feel it when you manually move the print head. Happy Extruding!!!
Nice overview commentary and insights. However, price-wise I'd go for a BBL X1C which I feel would be a more sound and reliable printer based on your test print results. Ringing, ringing, ringing issues=no buy.
I think as a product it misses the mark. The choice linear motors shouldn't be something different just for the sake of it. They should really focus on the ringing and make improvements to solve it.
I'd say the currently-shipping printer has some improvements. I watched a couple of the very early review videos from about a year ago, and part of the unboxing and assembly consisted of mounting the bed to the Z motors. The toolhead looks different from the early machines as well.
Previous scan defaulted to 3HUMP_EI on both axis on input shaper screen? Jeez I'd love to see the frequency response graph on those. Seems like it has some serious vibration issues that needs fixing if it behaves like that.
For all those problems you should contact the manufacturer and see what's their opinion about them. Nonetheless I didn't expect that after so many months it would still have problems.
That's ghosting not vfa's Also, a brand new printer needing days of calibration.. heck no. Also, there's literally NO need for the type of motion system. I've got printers that go so fast, there is NO extruder tar could possibly keep up. With 24v... not even trying.
I had such high hopes for this printer, and with all of the Bambu firmware drama lately, I almost jumped on it. Still searching.
Great review as always! An interesting motion system, and you're right, a real head scratcher there with the filament path. I'm actually kind of pleased that it's way out of my price range.
Thanks Stew!
the axolotl joke killed me, lmao
Thanks alotl! 😄
Looks like this printer can go places with future versions. A lot of technology for a reasonable price… and an impressive build volume!!
Thanks Bryan.
You're welcome, Ron!
I remember seeing this at a show a while back and being intrigued with the implementation of linear motors on a consumer-grade machine. The price was and still is a little steep, but I get it for the hardware. I rather wonder if the the ringing isn't tied to the differential of the axes themselves and the way the movement is calculated for the linear motors.
On the power tripping the breaker, I've gotten more and more sure that running the juice through a UPS helps tremendously with smoothing out the impulses/frequency in delivery on my printers, namely that we're in an older house with mixed aged wiring on about 50% of the circuits. We've updated a lot, but some of it is still circa 1960s-1980s depending on where it is in the house. Might be worth a shot.
Good review and I enjoyed your style!
Circuit breakers are generally pretty forgiving of surges. It takes a sustained overcurrent condition to trip an average breaker, unless maybe this is an AFCI breaker (trips on arc fault detection in addition to overcurrent).
Do like the big touch screen. Seems much better than other printers in this price point.
Nice to see another video Bryan ! I do believe those artifacts are from the individual neodymium magnets the space in between them causes a skip you can feel it when you manually move the print head. Happy Extruding!!!
It feels like a fist generation product. I hope they survive to produce more printers in the future.
Yeah, using linear motors is a nice concept. I hope they stick with it and iron out the weird behaviors.
Nice overview commentary and insights. However, price-wise I'd go for a BBL X1C which I feel would be a more sound and reliable printer based on your test print results. Ringing, ringing, ringing issues=no buy.
I think as a product it misses the mark. The choice linear motors shouldn't be something different just for the sake of it. They should really focus on the ringing and make improvements to solve it.
Interesting. Other reviewers saw it 1.5 years ago.
I wonder if they made improvements and hence the call to you.
I'd say the currently-shipping printer has some improvements. I watched a couple of the very early review videos from about a year ago, and part of the unboxing and assembly consisted of mounting the bed to the Z motors. The toolhead looks different from the early machines as well.
this printer is sooo cool, but the vfa/ringing... puts it in a weird spot
Previous scan defaulted to 3HUMP_EI on both axis on input shaper screen? Jeez I'd love to see the frequency response graph on those. Seems like it has some serious vibration issues that needs fixing if it behaves like that.
I love the idea of it but the issues seem silly at that price point.
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Sorry had to do it. Been playing a lot of Marvel Rivals.
FOR MUTANT KIND!
Lifetime Xfan was thinking the same thing lol
For all those problems you should contact the manufacturer and see what's their opinion about them. Nonetheless I didn't expect that after so many months it would still have problems.
That's ghosting not vfa's
Also, a brand new printer needing days of calibration.. heck no.
Also, there's literally NO need for the type of motion system. I've got printers that go so fast, there is NO extruder tar could possibly keep up. With 24v... not even trying.
e6000 posse where are you 🙂
i see absolutely no upside to this printer. yikes its like going back 5 years
Yep a dead duck of a printer. Over priced for a bad system. For that price you could have a K2 Combo, far better printer & multi colour.
I forgot you still made videos.
I'm tellin' ya, 2024 was exhausting. I took a month off. 😅
@ I was wondering what happened.
Glad to see ya back Bryan. You are one of my favorite content creators!
@@BV3D I have a feeling 2025 will be worse. A lot worse.