hi this is artillery sidewinder x2 fdm 3d printer the first thing i can say about this printer
is that it's truly the quietest printer i have ever used and in my eyes it's a reliable solid
and professional machine the printer has a large ac heated printing bed direct drive extruder
dual z-axis and many more professional features in short this printer is almost perfect
we'll look at all of these one by one and before starting the review this printer was
provided to me by heca.com there are many types of 3d printers and different products on heka
and the best part is that they give a 50 bucks discount for this printer that's really great
and quite a fair price for this printer if you intend to get artillery sidewinder x2 there will
be a discounted code and a link in the description you can get it cheap using the discount code and i
would definitely say take a look also big thanks to heka for sending this printer side one or h2
offers a really large printing volume compared to most printers i barely fit the printer on the
table i can't even use it that way because it hits the wall while working and you can easily see the
difference when i put it side by side within the tree it can even be better understood in this way
ok we see a carbon do glass pad as a printing surface and as you know the feature of these
surfaces is that the print can easily stick to the surface when it warms up and can easily come
off when it cools down for example right now the bed is 57 degrees and i can't take the print out
as you can see it comes with the whole bed but when the bed cooled down and i can easily take
the print off also since the bed is large you may think that it will take a long time to warm
up or maybe not good but sidewander x2 has a big advantage in this regard which is that
the printer has an ac heated pad and when i did some research i sold it to bed 500 watts which is
very high value this ac heating method is one of the fastest option on the market for heating bed
and this latch pad up to printing temperature in about 50 seconds which is really cool
the high voltage heating and sensor wires of the bed are also nicely insulated here
and move nicely in a channel it goes from here into the printer and is directly connected to
the power input which socketed in this way when i look at the bottom of the bed
i was really surprised because the printer doesn't have an aluminum bed instead there
is just a textured glass as you can see and the silicone heating element is glued
from the bottom to this glass and there is quite thick insulation form just below it
i see both leveling springs and bed calibration probe in the printer which looks like bl touch for
the leveling i'll do first manual leveling and for that i press level option in the interface
and do roughly manual leveling from five points then i press more and start all the way leveling
the printer is leveling from 20 different points right now
so the leveling ended at the back right and i think
the print head won't come to the home position and finally i set the z offset
so we complete the leveling when i look right next to the level and probe
i see direct wire extruder here which is a titan extruder
the stepper motor is out inside but it's probably a pancake stepper motor
okay here there is a slim pancake stepper motor and nicely fixed on a blue metal part
by the way the leveling prop is here it seems a tiny thing just in front of the model is the titan
extruder as i said in this way a nice direct drive concept is designed which is a big plus of having
direct drive because direct drive minimizes the distance advantage filament band or gem
and allows us to use the flexible filament without any problems just below the titan extruder i see a
long ptfe lined volcano style hadn't that can provide high flow and 0.4 millimeter nozzle
i think this direct drive and volcano hadn't concept is very good choice because sidewinder
x2 has a larger print volume than normal and this concept allows us to use the printer at high feed
rate and high speeds out of this there is a layer and block cooling fans here and these fans are
extremely quiet speaking of the silence it's time to talk about it because i'm not exaggerating this
is the quietest printer i've ever used i'm dead serious whether it's the fans here or the fan on
the motherboard extremely quiet and almost don't even notice the printer working as you can see
when i turn on the printer the sound level almost no changed and is around 40 db i think the reason
for this silence is that as you can see no phone is running even though the printer is on the fans
run when the printer warms up but the sound level is still quite low it's really quite printer and i
think one of the biggest reasons for that silence is that the printer uses a fanless power supply
let's go back to the printhead as you can see all these wires in the printhead gather in a pcb here
and from that they go to the motherboard through ribbon cable similarly there is one more ribbon
cable here to be honest i don't like ribbon cables very much sometimes they can be a problem but i
think they won't be a problem on this printer because as you can see here there are locking
clips and they look pretty solid looks nice and tidy and they also sand the spares just in case
on the print head there's a blue colored plastic casing surrounding the pancake stepper motor
pcb and leveling probe i think the printhead looks very good not too large which we see a large and
rough printhead in most direct drive printers but i like this design the printhead moves on
an unusually thick extrusion with conventional wheeled carriages i gotta say that this extrusion
gives the printer a pretty solid feel the wheeled carriages here also have a very interesting design
they are made of a chest aluminum which is pretty unusual and it looks big and heavy
but i don't think aluminum will be too hairy after all and these are not a problem at all for
this printer anyway because the printer uses deal motors in the z-axis to overcome all these direct
drive large extrusion and carriages which would probably be a problem if there wasn't double z
axis anyway however the printer has a double z-axis capable of meeting all this and the
movement in the z-axis is provided through these lead screws and breast nuts as in most printers
and since the print height is 400 millimeter it's even longer than usual in these lead screws
these shafts are connected to each other by bedside tear ends so that both stepper
motors can work synchronously which is great and something we don't see in every printer
also there's a different coupling here i don't know how this will affect print quality
but it's said to be patented design and provides better quality alright now let me talk about
unboxing the sitewinder x2 comes very neat all spare parts and tools are in this bag
and as you can see the printer comes almost installed and obviously not much to do for
the assembly we first fix the gantry to the base from the bottom but here
there's a pcb in the socket of the ribbon cable and you should be careful when installing it on
the base once put the gantry into the slots over there everything falls into place properly though
after placing the spool holder on the top and i fix it well with the screw here
then we plug in all the wires by the way since the printer has a level and prop
there is no end step on the z-axis but i think they still left the wire for the zn stop here
just in case finally i plug in the wire of the filament sensor and the printer is ready
it makes a really loud sound when it turns on and the leveling prop here goes up and down if there
was no light on the screen right now i wouldn't understand whether the printer was working or not
it's really quite anyway as you can see the screen is tilted on the front left side of the printer
however sidewinder x2 uses the 32-bit artillery ruby version 1.2 motherboard we see the silent
stepper motor drivers on the board and as i understand it i think the two stepper motors
on the z-axis are driving by a single driver because the socket that says z2 here is unused
all nicely glued quite solid right next to the motherboard we see a small 24 volt power supply
which is quite normal because the printing bed is ac powered and therefore of course there is
no need for a large power supply either there is no fan in the power supply as i said before it's
a fanless small power supply only on the other cover there's a large fan here the inside of
the printer also looks quite tidy and solid as you can see the base is supported by extrusions
here and i must say that the wiring is also quite neat okay let's get our first print with 3d benchy
by the way in this glass pad most of the people usually use adhesives or something but after
you have done the leveling of the printer well you don't need any adhesive for this glass pad
and as you can see even the letters in the first layer stick pretty well
but of course it needs to be as clean as possible on the surface
let's look at the pros and cons of the printer the things i can say is the pros large printing volume
ac powered printing pad automatic bed leveling and bed springs red springs are important
extremely quiet direct drive titan clone extruder dual z-axis and finally the touchscreen and
filament sensor can be added to the list besides one of the things that impressed me the most
is that artillery really cares the printer even the range they sound has a high quality that we
don't see in most printers and has its own tool bag instead of a small memory card we have a usb
and one of my favorite things is that they even used ball joint for filament sensor here as well
all these little details make me feel that the printer was of high quality besides this let's
look at the cons obviously the first thing know about tensioners screen touch is not that good
the eccentric nut adjustment is a bit difficult and the last thing is that the printer doesn't
have an aluminum bed so we probably cannot use a magnetic printing surface if we want
so as a result if i had to sum up the printer a smooth professional and quiet machine this was
artillery sidewinder x2 and you can get it now at heca.com for 50 bucks off there's a link in the
description for that you should definitely take a look thanks for watching see you in the next video