Hello, everyone. I have a 5 year old voxelabs aquila (ender 3v2). It worked great for 2 years then started modding it, since then problems. Im at the point with bltouch and klipper from raspi4 and custom fans that it might not be worth my time to even fix. Previous 3d printed fan shroud broke and printer another, but there is supports in the blower tubes i cant remove fully plus removed the x? Stop sensor as thought was good after starting with klipper and setting it all up but it smashes to the end of the line and errors so that needs to fixed. Plus never really got the bltouch working due to wrong offsets. Idk sounds like small issues i could fix but i just want a working 3d printer.
Ive been seeing all new printers now have auto bed leveling, direct drive, most have pressure advance, vibration compensation and other features that i kinda would like but i only print hobby stuff and current printer has been sitting for over a year due to not needing it and the fact its not working.
Basically should i just replace it with a used Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro or a new Elegoo Centuri Carbon, or just fix what I have?
He’s using the wrong words. No printer has an accelerometer.
Automatic bed leveling requires a printer support it. Klipper can’t do it if the hardware isn’t there. Same with flow rate calibration. Manual in Klipper requires test prints and then editing the config files. Flow rate on modern printers is calibrated automatically using the camera.
Of course they do, mine has one from the manufacturer (Qidi Xmax3) and I added one to my old bedslinger from anycubic. It is extremely common today that printers come with accelerometers built in to the toolhead board. Basically every consumer coreXY printer on the market today has this and I bet many bedslingers have them too.