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To: BiglyCommentary
All my printers are custom built so having open source for everything is very important to me.

It sounds like you are more adventurous in this than I have been. And my wife has managed to keep my completely natural hoarding instincts under control in this area. Basically, if I want a different 3D printer I will have to get rid of the one that I have got already. I put together a jumbo sized Creality type printer for a friend with a 300mm x 300mm x 400mm print area. I added the self leveling feature and had all sorts of difficulties getting the right firmware installed on the motherboard and rewiring to support that. We had it at our house for a couple of months while I ran it through it's paces. And I was kind of pining for one myself, but my wife was not enthusiastic about the idea.

Even though our bedroom is two stories above the room where the printer is kept she still whines about it when I have a long project printing through the night.

14 posted on 06/12/2022 9:15:48 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: fireman15
I put together a jumbo sized Creality type printer for a friend with a 300mm x

That sounds like a CR10-S. A "jumbo" would be something like their CR10-S5, 500mm.

Even though our bedroom is two stories above the room where the printer is kept she still whines about it when I have a long project printing through the night.

Replace the stock Creality controller with a board that can run TMC2209 stepper motor drive modules running in stealth-chop mode and the noise level from the steppers will drop dramatically. You won't be able to hear the printer from the next room.

16 posted on 06/12/2022 9:29:09 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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