Bambu should offer an X1C to X1E-Lite upgrade aka higher temp hotend

[JeradTAMU]

We need a hotend and hotend board upgrade for higher temp filaments like PPS. I have read that higher watt heaters can hurt the hotend board since it is limited to 48W. I have been going in circles trying to find an aftermarket hotend that can reach 320°C or higher, but have not been able to find anything that appears would fill my needs. I understand the firmware also limits the value input for the max temp to 300°C, so firmware would also need to change. I would love for Bambu to offer an “upgrade” for existing X1C users to get close to an X1E hotends capabilities.

If anyone knows a way to do all of this without Bambu’s help, please let me know.
I am probably repeated a question that has been asked for years, idk.
JW

[Olias]

Welcome to the community.

There is a third party mod that will do this but it comes with strings attached. See this recent post on that topic.

P1s scaled nozzle heater/bed temp deregulator

Here’s my report on this mod. I’ve had this now for a full week. I realize this is a long read so I’ve tried to break it down into segments. TL;DR version: It works to some degree—with caveats, which I’ll cover in the detailed version below. Summary Scale used to gauge level of difficulty to install: 1 = very easy 5 = no more difficult than any other Bambu replacement part 10 = very hard Would I recommend it? Probably not, but you may have a use case for doing this. The ROI in…

[Soultaker]

It’s an easy mod that the 2a community has been using for some time now. If you’ve got a soldering iron and some then you can easily mod it yourself.

You can Google “Bambu P1S/X1C Resistor mod for higher temperatures.” to see some more information on the subject. In short, you solder a 33ohm resistor to one the thermistor’s leads.

I’m not doing PPS yet so haven’t had to do it. Not sure if I’ll do it on the stock nozzle or obxidian.