Title pretty much says it but I bought a second AMS and multi-port hub but I’m steady wading through the wiki and not seeing anything remotely addressing either the single tubing hub or the 4-port hub.
Anyone no where that might be?
I’m sure I can Wing-It if it comes to that but want to make sure there are no snakes looking to bite me.
You just need to feed both the lines into the buffer. You can even print one of those y connectors or buy the $5 4 port one from the store. The old hub is almost obsolete now.
Pop that into the intake of the buffer.
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Connect AMS Hub and multi-AMS | Bambu Lab Wiki There is not much involved in the process, most the issues will be how sharp you route the PTFE to the hub. I added my second AMS via the cheap adaptor and the daisy chain the AMS so can’t give you much more info about the hub.
The numbering order apparently is controlled by the order you plug in the AMS, I had my first one already plugged in and added the second one once the printer was started and it automatically put it to second. (See tip down the bottom)
Are you suggesting this?
I can see there is no benefit to put filament sensor on each port of the AMS hub
My work doesn’t require more than 2-color print, so one AMS would do the job just fine. I just contemplate on having the 2nd AMS so that I can print something fun with hueforge. But for that price of an AMS, a handful number of prints at most won’t justify the cost.
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I had already bought the 4 port hub.
They essentially do the same thing anyhow, the printer cabling through to the AMS units are the same except you replace the original buffer with the Hub you purchased.
Seems like only significant difference is you can get alerted for each AMS individually rather than a generic “One of the 4 AMS’s has a problem” You, the operator has to figure out which one.
I’ve been running this with 2xAMS and the alerts and screen are all functional, there is no changes afaik. The Hub is the all-in-1 solution just bigger (and easier to get the PTFE out lol).
PS. This is on my X1, I have the update-on-startup/capacity both turned off to save the spooling up every time I start the thing
I’m curious what those four sensors in the Hub get you over the one sensor in the buffer?
Seems like it tells you AMS 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 has issues rather than your AMS has problem.
Using the buffer and the 4-in-1 PTFE do you get this?
Edit. I’ve just had a closer look at the hub and apologise, there are 4 filament sensors. I have no information as to what scenario this will come into effect, so far I am not aware of any feature that is missing in my setup.
See my above image, the colours loaded in are read via the cable from the AMS, the cables are daisy-chained exactly the same and only one cable goes to the Buffer or Hub (whichever option you run). If I load a colour in that has an RFID it will read it and locate it on the screen exactly the same way. If I run out of filament in one slot, it will do the auto change with no problem (only if in the same AMS).
Example, yesterday I had organised my AMS with a 6colour print. I loaded 2x white PLA because one spool was going to expire. I have the swap feature activated. It shows up in the Studio app as a swapable pair. The print went ahead and the swap carried out with no issues. It sent me a HMS warning message to say it had run out etc…
I’m just asking.
You show both AMS and you can click on icon in upper left to toggle between AMS.
See the two circled icons in Bambu Studio
Yes, in studio and on the printer screen both my AMS read and show up. If I load a filament it shows the path to the extruder coloured as your PACF indicates.
I had a fault yesterday when I was hooking up the two AMS units. Was really after they were both hooked up and I was going to print something that required a color from each AMS. Nothing exotic. One color up to a certain layer then changed to the second color and error told me which spool was giving me trouble.
I’m from the school of why make a $50 part when there is a $5 dollar part that does the same thing so maybe the 4-in-1 coupler is oriented to filaments that arent compatible with the AMS??
Someone who has 4 loaded AMS probably also has multiple AMS incompatible filaments
I run multiple non-chipped respooled filaments and have yet to find problem or idiosyncrasy while in use. The bonus is, the 4in1 is only a few $ and if something does fail its not a major effort to change over or just toss out.
End of the day if something functionally different between this and the big Hub show up I’m sure it’s not going to be a brainteaser to see.
I think it mainly gives your more non-RFID/non-AMS compatible options. So I could have 4 AMS and 3 non-AMS filaments spooled up ready to use for a total of 19 spools of filament hooked up ready to go although hard to envision that for average user.