This is the ender 3 max it's about the same size as the cr-10 I got sent this beta unit
by creality to do a review so let's take a look at it right here at Filament Friday. Filament
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Creality shows this on their website as the Ender three max on sale for $400 and sold out.
Well it turns out that's not right it's just a placeholder. You see my friend Angus over
at Makers Muse and my other friend Joel Telling 3D Printing Nerd both got one the same time I did and
they did live streams. Joel did his live stream recently I'll put a link to that. Angus did a live
stream before that and they both put it together, got it to print, and said basically it's a big
Ender three. And there's a lot of truth to that but there are some differences and I want to cover
that. But the size is the big thing. It's an ender 3 that prints about the same size as a cr-10.
They advertise it as 300 by 300 by 340 which is really what it measures which is 12 inches by
12 inches by 14 inches so it is a big build area. But like I said, the same as a CR-10. To start off
it is an Ender 3 base. It's the same size base as an ender 3 pro it's even got the wider rail like
the ender 3 pro the only difference is is the rail is longer to accommodate a 300 by 300 bed
but how do they get it wider well instead of going on top of the base with these two rails they
go outside the base so you gain 40 millimeters here 40 millimeters here plus the 220 of the bed
there's your 300 millimeters so you screw these in place with screws on the side going into the base
instead of going on top and underneath with the screws so that gives you 300 wide by 300 deep what
I do like about the max is it's mostly assembled the top half is assembled and the bottom half is
assembled so you just have to connect the top to the bottom with those four screws that go in
the side of the rails from there you mount the lcd which is exactly the same as Ender three
and a meanwell power supply mounts to the back just like Ender three pro. After that it starts to
get very different from an ender three first off the extruder top is the same it's plastic but it's
mounted to a bracket that looks like it came from a cr10 v2 it's got a spot where you could mount
a filament runout sensor but because there is no filament runout sensor the filament rubs on the
edge of this bracket and shaves off pieces of filament it's terrible that's got to be fixed
another thing is different it's a z stop switch it screws right into the rail there's no t-nuts
there's no slots you can adjust the height of the z-stop switch which makes it very difficult
to adjust your bed my bed is very loose because I couldn't tighten the springs down far enough
because i couldn't adjust the z stop and this has the stronger springs like what's on the cr-10
those orange ones that people like to update their ender threes with so it makes it stronger but it's
still loose it can still move and it ended up affecting my prints that's a flaw in the design
one improvement they did is they did two fans for cooling the filament so it's dual fans that's nice
so I hope they make this available for ender three and it's got a bracket on the side where you can
mount a bl touch so that's an improvement over the under three it still has a single threaded
rod at the back and a single stepper motor that's just like the original cr10 and ender three that
could be a problem and I noticed that when they assembled this bar I am get a little bit of sag
so I need to adjust this arm that affected my bed level a little bit as well that's just an
assembly issue but it was fully assembled so in my opinion they didn't do that right
it does have the filament on the side like i like to do on my under threes and it's the same bracket
that's on the cr6 and it pivots but some people still like it on top so it takes up less space
and this thing is bigger so putting it on the side makes this really wide but that's different than
the ender three the electronics are the same as under three pro the same bracket same everything
same sd card upside down the board is actually the same as the new ender three or into three pro
it's a version four point two point two and it's a 32 bit board but doesn't have silent drivers
the v2 has that same board same number but silent driver so it's hard to tell what you're getting
because they don't put a different number on it but this doesn't have silent drivers it should
have silent drivers for my first print I went big and I was able to use my g-code test print
for my cr-10 on here but I couldn't use my corner g-code because the firmware still won't recognize
the m0 command same problem as v2 and the ender 3 under 3 pro but I did go big I sliced this in cura
in spiral mode came out nice so the first layer went down nice and smooth that worked great and
that's when I started to have issues with leveling things I ended up actually having to use a little
bit of glue stick because I couldn't get the level perfect for smaller prints and i printed
two chep cubes and if you look at the front of these things both the x and the y have vibration
in them and i tightened the belt I adjusted the jerk on the second one to a lower value i could
not get rid of that ringing and it's all because of this bed is loose and if that's based on the z
stop I can't compress these springs enough because I can't adjust that z stop switch I did print the
original cr10 cat but because of that vibration it wasn't nearly as good as original cr-10
you know this is pretty standard ender three stuff and I wanted to try something different so I put
a one millimeter nozzle on this thing because to me if you got a big printer go bigger nozzle
but I use the one millimeter nozzle and i don't have a good profile for it and I printed
a 300 chep cube and this thing is crude but it printed it so it did complete it but it's crude
so yes this is a large ender three but you can already make a large under three
if you buy one of those ender extender kits they have a 300 by 300 for $129
so a $200 ender three with $129 kit that's $329 with their economy of scale this thing should
not be more than $300 so $299 on sale $279. That's really where this machine should be
and then fix the things i'm talking about the stop switch should be adjustable get rid of this
rubbing on here I like the dual fans that's really cool but fix it and also fix the firmware creality
if you're listening please fix the firmware across the whole ender line ender 3v2 under 3 all your
32-bit boards they should have the latest firmware available with your configuration files version
2.0.7 marlin fixes all the things so my g-code will work so you can do the change in filament
all those things will work if you use the latest firmware so update it and release it
with your config files including here and that'll be really nice instead of 4.2.2 different versions
just put silent drivers across these things and be done with it I'd love this that I'd love to see
more than an ender 3 max but I like this machine I think it's a great direction where they're going
fix all these bugs i'm talking about and you got a really good lineup with the ender 3.
so what do you guys think of a big ender 3 max let me know in the comments below that's it for this
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