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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Hey there are other great printers but also it’s fine to recognize a great printer.

    The rest of the industry is quickly playing catch up because the quality and the absolute bar lowering the printers from Bambu labs have done.

    QIDI and the new Creality printers are already way better for it and we will hopefully and likely see more innovation from trying to dethrone them.

    All to say I think the cheers are justified and worth it. And as soon as they are worth it I think people will stop.


  • Hey see lots of people answering other questions but not the one you really want answered.

    The basic nozzle wiper included sucks.

    I have now tested probably about 4 different options and it’s something that you will want to replace soon if you are doing consistent filament swaps in a print. The A1 mini scrubbers don’t work quite as well as you would hope, mostly being that they hit the build plate back tab usually from where the nozzle wipes at and can grab filament and create a clog in the tube. I’m really liking the one I have on my printer though it needs to be printed with at least PETG realistically or ABS or ASA, but the nozzle wiper that uses a piece of tubing did the best job of cleaning the nozzle just also flung tiny little specs of plastic all over.

    Buy more build plates also, especially textured as that will let you print everything basically and even TPU without a release agent on the build plate. I also really like the extra LED strip light replacement.

    I’m currently in the finalizing my setup stages of an X1 and feel like I am finally in just printing away stage if you want to compare.





  • So, I can’t print PETG in a cold room without extra effort.
    I also can’t print it on smooth build plates very well.
    And I can’t print it very fast or with surface layers that are super complex.

    PETG needs a good surface that it’s close to and can adhere to and it needs to be warm.

    I set my build plate to 50°C for at least an hour before printing and leave a fan running in the enclosure to spread the heat around. Bed is set to 70 and I only use the textured build plate and make sure the nozzle is clean before it prints cause if it starts sticking elsewhere it won’t stop.

    Oh and if I open the enclosure part way through the print and cold air hits it I find I usually lose the print.



  • So I got my inkbird ITH10s and they are at least for me what I was looking for.

    They aren’t all perfect and have a slight variation between them but they are consistent and only cost me $14 for 6 of them. And I’m really only trying to get a rough idea of difference between enclosure types.

    But yeah these do feel consistently like e-waste that for most people’s need of tracking if their humidity on their filament has gone too high that the answer is just the color changing paper readers. That or old mechanical ones that are always on in a simpler way.


  • Working on it. Waiting for some packages.

    The rectangular ones are slightly more reliable from personal experience but likely just as possible to be low quality. From working with them the design layout leaves less space to get obvious flaws such as the RH sensor being installed facing the board which seems to be true for most of the round ones, they also have a separate and dedicated temp sensor unlike the round ones and use a double battery setup since voltage can also affect the accuracy of the reading.

    But the RH sensor between the units seem to be identical as is the inability to calibrate.

    Personally the paper strips are very reliable if just looking for a binary answer of if it’s gotten past a threshold and are incredibly cheap.

    Abe recommended an electronic daughter board sensor that was cheap but requires skills I don’t have.

    And I have found medical grade ones that can be purchased cheap “used” as they are often single use for shipping purposes to make sure the item was kept in specific conditions. But that brings me back to waiting for the. To arrive and test.


    TL;DR

    These cheap electric square or circle ones are both luck based with some preference to the square. But cheap paper humidity sensors can be gotten if you just want to toss them in a bag to make sure they haven’t gotten water damaged as a binary identifier.

    For reliable accuracy look elsewhere.