After about 800 hours of prints, I have sold my X1C Combo from the April batch! It has brought me back to 3D printing when I abandoned it many years ago due to frustrations with calibrating things and honestly it has really delivered on a lot of its promises–for me at least. I will miss it.
That said… I sold it with the intention to replace it with the X1E as I still have 3 AMS units but now I’m wondering–any rumors about what’s coming out next year? I already pre-ordered the Peopoly Magneto X but that probably won’t be coming any time soon. I also have a 500mm^3 experimental Ratrig V-Core IDEX printer I built from parts that is coming along slowly. Should I wait? Should I get the X1E? Tell me what you think–spend my money
Sounds like you don’t have a functioning 3D printer now… That seems to indicate you can live without one… That means you can save yourself the X1E expense and spend it on something completely different!
All you have to do is sell the 3 AMSs…
The ultimate question is what are you printing? If you are thinking of getting an X1E I will assume you need a heated chamber, ethernet or more robust wifi settings.
If you have 3 left over AMS units they are useless unless you have an X1 or P1 series printer. So if you are moving on, sell the ams units as they are paper weights without a printer and we are too far out to guess what a new model will use.
I think if you have this kind of disposable income to spend, it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Buy what you want and dump it if it’s not what you expected once you get it… Although, why you’d get rid of a perfectly serviceable machine before any of the alternatives you’re considering are available is kind of a head-scratcher…
Sell as long as possible and wait for a new, better device. There are supposed to be driving instructors who buy a new car every 2 or 3 years and sell the old (still new vehicle) model again.
Some things could really have been done better on the X1C, usually very simply. I’m thinking, for example, of a cooling problem of the tool head, which causes clogging problems; or even a glass printing plate. Then the printer would really be pretty perfect for me.
However, why him keep several AMS that don’t work properly, I don’t understand either. I would sell them then too. It is advertised, and still misleadingly advertised, as being able to choose freely between materials and colours, where everyone who tries it knows that it is not possible.
All I can say is this, in my 40 years in the technology business and as a technology marketer and buyer, you will never pull the trigger if you wait on the “next big thing”.
It’s futile to try to time the market unless you know for a fact such as a product announcement on a specific date. Basing the decision to hold off on a tech purchase based on a what-if used to be called “Analysis Paralysis” and I know, because it has hit me many times in my life. The same is true waiting on the price to fall. Unless you have a specific announcement or know for a fact that a company lowers their prices at specific times of the year, you’ll wind up chasing the price curve forever.
I dont have any dates but my guess is that one will come with the v2 machines. Not sure when that will be but i cant see bambu sticking with the current multicolor setup on the printers or ams. I imagine a more polished version of the a1 mini setup with secondary motors and enclosed housings. Only it will have 4 secondary motors instead of 1 and 4 ptfe tubes (my crazy guess. no facts to back it up). They need to get the retraction as short as possible.
The X1E is pretty much the same as the X1C except for the meeting improvements and being able to actually control chamber temps. Why would you want it unless you need all that security? Not worth an extra grand to me. I really don’t think anyone will hack my printer, but I guess it’s possible.
I’m kind of wondering why you didn’t sell at least one AMS with the X1C? They’re useless without the printer. I don’t think you’ll be seeing a better version of that coming out anytime soon.
My hope is for a larger format, although slower, printer. It’s still going to be fast and above anything else I could buy and I don’t feel like tinkering with something like a Voron or RatRig. But hey finish your RatRig, since you’ve already started that. That’ll give you something to do while your wait for the next big thing, but when that’s going to be no one knows. Done dude was talking about an X1S the other day but I haven’t heard of anyone else talking about that…
I did sell one AMS with the printer. That’s why I have 3 left instead of 4.
They’re also not necessarily useless without the printer. It can be reverse engineered. At the end of the day it’s a series of extruders and a filament sensor right?
I was considering the X1E since it would be more or less a drop-in replacement with some nice features. I primarily printed ASA and there are definitely times where the print warps near the build plate despite brim and supposedly the actively heated chamber would help with that.
Anyways, I think my original post was misunderstood. I was mainly looking for the rumor mill, not criticisms of the X1E or “wisdom”
If build plate size is something that you have been waiting for then next year’s Bambu release should do the trick. It’s coming sometime next year just don’t know the exact date but it’s going to happen.
The same is true waiting on the price to fall. Unless you have a specific announcement or know for a fact that a company lowers their prices at specific times of the year, you’ll wind up chasing the price curve forever.
