I didn’t print from Bambu studio, not sure where you are getting this from.
lol… Bambu might have whispered something to him along these lines:
…use Bambu’s Studio. Works miracles on Kobra…and makes it “purr” like a spoiled X1 kitten
I ordered the Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo yesterday.
It is meant to turn up between March 1st and March 10th.
Fingers crossed it arrives before I leave this mortal coil.
I ordered one on January 2nd, and another on the third. Got shipping notice last Friday, scheduled for delivery this Thursday for both.
Good thing you got the combo. Those that ordered stand alone units got there’s first, but there’s no hub available to connect the Ace yet, not talking about the 4 port hub, but rather the module that controls them.
I’ve already printed an 8 port hub (Anycubic still hasn’t made available an 8 port hub for the Kobra 3, much less the S1.
Edit to add: on both units I opted for the discounted filament, 4 rolls each unit. Those have shipped as well, both arriving Friday.
I assume you mean to connect 2 ACE units for 8 colours in total.
I haven’t looked at the 8-port hub as a thing, I am aware the ACE units do not spool back as far as the AMS units do, but, I can’t imagine the 8-port hub is much more than tube management, surely.
I do not expect to get a second ACE unit, I am happy with my small army of P1S printers, all of their AMS units and a couple of A1 minis.
Mine cost me £33.39 due to a few discounts etc. I hope I am not throwing that money away!
I still have 67 spools of non-BL filament and will use them with the new printer.
I have become so accustomed (lazy) to just dropping BL spools in the AMS that I am not looking forward to stepping back in time.
I am in the U.K. and we regularly get shafted on delivery and stock.
That little doodad that’s circled.
Similar to the AMS controller. The 4 port hub is attached to bottom of doohickey, 8 port would replace the 4 port. And yes, if it works like the K3, the filament pulls back about. An inch (2.54 cm for you uncivilized types).
Interesting, looks like their ams doesnt have a 2nd stage motor. Only a single motor for each lane(4 tubes leaving the unit instead of 1). Must be a beefy extruder style motor in there for each lane.
Does that little black box act as a buffer or only a coupler? Does it have runout sensors so it doesnt have to pull all the way back?
I like that most companies are figuring out alternative ways instead of straight copying the ams completely.
Not sure on the black box. The k3 didn’t utilize such a device. If I had to guess, it probably is a runout sensor. The stand alone S1 doesn’t come with that black box.
If so, thats a great way to cut down on the filament transit time. This printer looks pretty good. If it works like this, it would be interesting to mod it to fit at the inlet of the tool head
It’s not looking promising that my S1’s arrive today. That, or FedEx isn’t updating… Either way, no FedEx updates since departing Chino California, even though FedEx emailed yesterday saying delivery today.
FedEx finally managed to drop off my S1’s today. Only set one up so far. It’s a nice looking printer, but build quality isn’t on the P1S level, which reflects in the price.
Running my old Ace from my old K3. Setup was straight forward, connecting to my Anycubic account. After initial calibrations, I didn’t print the obligatory benchy. In my combo deals, I took advantage of their filament discount. These were probably the worst cardboard spools I’ve received. They’re packed in individual cardboard boxes, 4 boxes taped together and shipped. Had some ‘crushed’ flat spots. On the included usb drive was the spool rings, so started printing those.
I must say, compared to my old K3, print quality is excellent, extremely happy with it. No bed adhesion issues, good first layer, printer is quieter than the k3, fans and all. It’s got a great touch screen. Bigger than what was on the K3.
Hopefully the 2nd printer is as good as the first.
Here’s part of a quality issue
Looked like it had a defect in the original paint on this metal back panel and they bomb canned over it and the screw. Its a very thin metal back cover. The lid and door are plastic (like my flashforge). The door has a nice positive seal when closed. Includes a charcoal pack for the filter system.
I’ve gotta make a poop chute…
The manual calls this an anti blocking module. I don’t believe it comes with the non combo unit, and they don’t offer it alone yet, so those that didn’t buy the combo unit won’t be able to use an Ace for the foreseeable future.
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Couple of running prints from the S1.
A poop basket
Self explanatory. Benchy running on second printer. Second printer setup with included Ace. 1st printer was/is setup with the Ace from my old K3.
1st printer/old Ace loaded and read all 4 Anycubic Pantone colors. 2nd printer/new Ace read black and gray high speed PLA in slots one and two. It didn’t read the Anycubic PLA in slots 3 and 4(green and orange). No biggie, set them up on screen. Figured they were not RFID spools.
Printed great from black, gray, then orange. Went to print from green, walked away and came back to this.
It didn’t feed in the funnel below the filament sensor and came out underneath spool rollers. After clearing it out. Loaded all spools. Now it reads the orange PLA, but not the black and gray.
Swapped out the new Ace unit with the new Ace unit from printer one, all colors recognized by the unit and set accordingly.
I’ll send off a support ticket on the flakey Ace unit. After hooking it back up, now all it wants to do upon insertion of filament is roll the filament spool as if it’s winding the filament back on the spool without feeding. I can manually feed the filament with the Ace off, then turn it on and it’ll feed to printer and print fine, but doesn’t detect filament reliably. Well, it prints fine on all slots except three. It’ll feed the filament once I’ve inserted it, but upon starting a print using slot 3, gives a failure to extrude.
The benchy was printed with the 1st units new Ace from slot 3.
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Found issue with the faulty Ace unit.
The top two PTFE buffers that show the screw heads should actually be turned 180°, to match the bottom two. All 4 were backwards. That’s a little magnet shown on the top two. With those upside down, the Ace tries to retract as soon as you insert filament. If the Ace is off, you can load filament past the sensor, power on and it’ll feed filament, but will give an occasional extrusion error.
Once I rotated all 4, the Ace works as it should.
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Your post gives me hope, I got my S1 yesterday. Unfortunately the post office dropped it, serious damage on the corner where the power lead goes. It still prints but can’t get a good quality print out of it. They replied to my support ticket in 24 hours and will replace it.
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Anycubic has been good with support.
While I wasn’t overly impressed with the Kobra 3 Combo I’d bought, they did a good job with support/warranty parts for it.
I’m really liking the S1 though! It’s a keeper
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What slicer do you recommend for the K3?
Anycubic next
My journey to TRYING to purchase an Anycubic Kobra S1 combo ended today.
I ordered mine back at the start of February and it was to be shipped to the UK.
It was due to be shipped between the 1st and 10th of March, that came and went. An issue during the order also meant their checkout grabbed a secondary email rather than the one I was logged in with.
This also meant I wasn’t sent any email receipts or updates, for reasons they couldn’t explain. They fixed this after the shipping window had expired.
I kept asking for updates to get answers that at best were off-topic at worst were purposely hiding the truth.
I demanded a refund until they could guarantee it would be delivered by the 20th (tomorrow).
They finally admitted there was no chance and offered me a refund and a roll of filament to apologise.
I asked when the refund would be issued and they withdrew the filament offer.
I finally received the refund today.
It may be a great printer, but, I will never know now.
It would have been better if they had informed, explained, apologised and used honesty.
I may have ended up with the printer if they had tried honest communication.
This experience reinforces my own experience and conviction that except for Prusa, and to some degree Elegoo, none of the existing 3d printer manufacturers really care of having a proper, effective and professional customer service or support in place.
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Care to share your slicer configs?