On today's episode we're going to check out the new creality silent board. It's version 4.2.7.
32-bit processor with silent tmc drivers and we'll install it on this guy the ender 3 max
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Creality has made things very confusing. They switched Ender 3 and Ender 3 pro to 32-bit boards
but non-silent drivers. All the older machines were 8-bit boards with non-silent drivers.
These, I've all updated to silent drivers in one way or another
so if you want to do that to a newer machine and still maintain 32-bit they released the version
V4.2.7. Which is 32-bit with silent drivers. Now you can install this V4.2.7 on any Ender 3
and bring it up to 32-bit and get silent drivers. So it's not a bad deal but I want to try it on an
ender 3 that had the 32-bit board but non-silent drivers and see if it makes those steppers
quieter. And the only machine that I have like that was the ender 3 max. But the Ender 3 max,
the base of it is essentially an Ender 3 pro. It's no different from the electronics point of view,
so I'm going to show you how to install this 4.2.7 on basically an ender 3 pro and we'll see
if it makes it quieter. And I'm also curious if it'll get rid of some of that ringing that I saw
on the x and y axis in my review. For safety, shut off power or just unplug it. And the first
screw you want to take off is on the top it's under the bed. Then there's three on the bottom,
one at the back two at the front and then that cover should come off. And look at this, it's
got a connector for the fan. I showed this in a previous video. They copied this idea. I love it.
And then you have to get all the glue off the connectors. I just grab on with needle nose
pliers and pry them out. And then one by one I take the connectors and put them in the same
spot. This way I don't mess anything up. I just go one by one until I get all the connectors in
place. Once I get the last of the white connectors then I go to the screw terminal ones. So
I want to take these stepper motor wires out of the way. They're all labeled so I don't have to
go one to one with those and push those out of the way so I can get to the screws a lot easier.
But then I go back to one by one. I'll take the wire out and put it in the same spot and
the new board. This way I keep everything in the proper order and then once these are all in place
the last two are the power and ground. Now these two I tend to do together because they just
they stay together and that way I make sure I got them right. And
pull out the lcd cable which is this ribbon cable and then there are four screws to remove
that hold the board to the base. Once you get those four screws this board comes right out.
Put the new board in place, line up the holes and then put the screws in. I like going with
the center one first and then I work my way around and then finally get the fourth screw in.
Now I can put the steppers back in and they're all labeled. This one's x and then there's a y label,
that one's z, and then e is the last one, extruder. Put the ribbon cable back in and now
I can put this cover back on. So I put the upper corner on, make sure all wires are inside the box,
and then the last two screws. And then there's one screw on top and this thing's assembled.
I didn't do it before for before and after but let's see how quiet this is.
This is definitely quieter than it was before. All I'm hearing is the fans.
So I'm going to print a CHEP cube and see how the ringing looks on this thing. And when it was done,
no better. This is terrible. So I've got to work on this.This 4.2.7 silent board definitely made
the Ender 3 max more silent but didn't fix the ringing problem. That's something else.
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