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Take a week and build a Voron. The kits are super easy to piece together and you end up with an insanely great, reliable printer for a fraction what it should cost. Yes, the build time and initial calibration might take a bit, but mine's been without issue, printing 24h long prints perfectly for over a year now. You don't need to settle for a mediocre built printer if you have the patience to piece together one. Not to mention, since you built the kit, you know how to troubleshoot any issues that pop up much faster than something you pulled out of a box and plugged into the wall.
2x on the recommendation. I've been slowly modding mine for about two years now. I printed the filter and magnetic panels right out of the gate.
Things I wish I did sooner:
Other than wiring breaks, and me goobering my hod end while goofing with it, it's been dead reliable. The printer has 906 hours on it with the longest print clicking in at 25.5 hours.
Build a klicky and ditch the z-endstop if it's a 2.4
I installed Cartographer and it's nice, but not super reliable so far.
It is a 2.4 and I do have a klicky. I run a Z Caliberation macro that makes it a lot less fiddily to deal with getting offset just so. I could see using klicky to be the z end stop, but I'm done tweaking things for the time being. Maybe in the next go.
I have 5mm acrylic panels on my V2.4 250 and I get 65°C no problem
Very nice!
Mine is a 350, so yay lots of panel surface area :(
Where do you have your chamber thermistor mounted? Mine is mounted to the top of my stealthburner.
As someone who is currently building an LDO Voron (Voron 2.4 LDO Rev. D) most of those things are already included (like the Z-end-stop, the NiteHawk and panels)
Unless something has changed, it looks like the LDO kits still come with acrylic panels? ACM panels are an aluminum, plastic, aluminum sandwich. You cant see through them. I also didn't see the sex bolt or door.
Enjoy the build! The LDO kits are a solid base to start from.
Thanks, yeah following the voron guide was straight forward but the LDO documentation was a bit getting used to. Some things were poorly explained while others were not mentioned at all (like the LED light assembly) but by far better than having to source everything on my own.
Thanks for this insight! Thanks to everyone that replied really. I'm good with building, just hate endless tweaking and tuning. Will research Voron.
There's no need to tweak and tune. I am in the camp of having a printer to print things, vs endlessly tune the printer, and my Voron is set it and forget it at this point. There are some mods worth going after for quality of life, but none are really necessary. I put a list into another reply to the person you just replied to.