He is using dual ams-lite. Is it possible?
Not easily. AMS lite doesn’t have passthrough for the cable and as there’s no filament buffer, you somehow would also have to make your own new AMS lite filament hub.
It’s much more likely that the picture is fake (renamed his P1 series printer to A1?).
It’s not, also it isn’t in the format as the AMS Lite. It has 2 on top and 2 on bottom, the same shape as the AMS Lite, so he is using just the AMS. The AMS formant is 4 next to each other, just like the design.
My guess is the photo is real, it is what you are not seeing that is confusing things.
You can have multiple printers, you select one from those (shown in the top left of the screenshot).
When the print dialogue is displayed, you select one of your available printers. That printer selection is hidden by the AMS pop-up in the screenshot.
The AMS pop-up shows all slots are disabled. This happens when the slicer knows the (hidden) target printer isn’t compatible with the sliced model.
AMS lite selector for the A1 series and any series with only one AMS or AMS lite.
AMS selector for the P & X series with two AMS units. If you have 3 or 4 AMS units they appear as extra rows.
Back to the original question.
BL have stated the A1 & A1 mini can connect to one AMS. The A series printers have multiple ‘bus sockets’, you plug the AMS lite into any available socket. This makes it theoretically possible that a future change of heart by BL could allow the physical ability to plug more than one AMS lite into the printer.
It seems unlikely though. Simple positioning in the marketplace would cannibalise the market for the P series printers where one import differentiation is the limitation of one AMS.
The ‘bus socket’ is meant to be for a potential future upgrade where some currently unknown hardware could also be plugged into the printer.
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