I’m impressed with the Bambu AMS as well.
There was a thread about how often you should change the PTFE tubes in it as I thought I’d check mine out recently.
I’ve had the printer since May 2023 and the hours printing was just over 1,700 .
There was no damage to any of the tubes, So I didn’t change any.
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This is just about my unicorn printer. I want a large format, IDEX, MMU/AMS, enclosed, and heated chamber printer. Only thing this RatRig is missing is the heated chamber, but that could always be added. I’m looking forward to your review on this in 2 months.
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I’m not disagreeing, but even Bambu had a number of silent revisions. What’s the current revision count? 3 or 4 or something like that? Prusa may (?) have finally gotten theirs working better, but for many years it was widely regarded as unreliable junk. All of this is to acknowledge that yes, it’s likely harder to get it right than it looks. Who knows how long it may take Qidi or Creality. Based on all this history, my guess is their version 1 won’t be the final version.
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Interesting design.
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very smart indeed
Bambu, are you guys paying attention to your competition here? Should learn a lesson or two from them and adapt the AMS accordingly, or else people might get the bright idea of acquiring and adapting Creality’s “AMS” to work with Bambu machines and leave you guys with a bunch of unsold AMS boxes in stock.
Same thing for your printers. Pay attention and adapt… or die
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It’s neat, but does it work. Has any creality printer just worked? I could give two toots about paid reviewers, other than to see the product. What they say about it has to be taken with a grain of salt.
After initial glowing reviews, due to a rush to get them out the door, reviewers didn’t spend enough time with the plus 4 to encounter some issues people are starting to have.
The ratrig is about $300 off now. Black friday sale. I think it was around $2,450 for the 500mm with all add ons. (hybrid, idex and led lights)
@CRracer712 It all depends on how you see things. In other camps, people talk about the a1 bed wiring recall as proof of the same sort of thing. Just depends on how extreme or realistic a person wants to be. One person would say companies have hiccups. Another would say, company A put peoples lives at risk by pushing an item out before thorough testing and theyll never risk buying from company A. Those people usually overreact because they are in a love cult with company B. Prusa bros vs bambu bros or bambu bros vs qidi bros. The truth is, Klipper and copy cat versions of klipper and orca have made most printers pretty dang good in very short time. We can now start to shop the hardware instead of only the software. If any of that makes sense.
I predicted this a year and a half ago on this forum and got flamed.
How about that.
Bambu’s 3d printing machines
Made it all the way up to 9gag.
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I know some of you hate this guy, but this is the most detailed video I’ve found on the actual hardware. Looking pretty amazing. Thank you Bambu for awakening the beasts
Beacon in action
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Calm down lol. I believe he printed 2 plates of them to show consistancy. Its in another video lol. I only posted this one to show the hardware. Ive been trying to only post videos that wont trigger people here.
Im honestly just interested in the printer, so if you have a video that seems honest, please forward it.
I know you liked that beacon vid though, right? Pretty slick stuff.
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About the Qidi Plus4
Got an update today that lowered the duty cycle on the chamber heater even lower, to 40%. Kinda lame but whatever. They have to try and make it safe while they figure it out. I bet they do a recall since not everybody does updates. I turned mjne up to 50%. Ran at 70% without issues but a certain percentage of units were burning out their SSR. I ordered this one to replace the weak factory unit. Then ill turn it max to max_power:70
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Have there been any burnt up plus 4’s documented yet?
Curious if you’ve ever checked wattage usage when it’s all heating up?
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A few thermal cut-off switches costs far less than a damaged reputation. When will they ever learn? Time to fire or demote their head of engineering. Maybe then the next guy will take it seriously. This isn’t rocket science. It’s Engineering 101. Build it right the first time.
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I think its rare. Only seen a couple melted units. Not sure if there has been any fires. Seems like it was caught fast and everybody freaked out enough to catch everybodies attention. Id say, anybody looking at one, that isnt confident in upgrading parts should hold off until the next wave of machines. With the update, it takes twice as long to heat up now. Not a huge deal because the bed takes so long anyway, but still worth waiting for it to get a hardware fix.
From what ive gathered, everything heating up at the same time can hit 800 watts before the update. The chamber heater alone hits 300ish on 110V @40% duty cycle even after the update. I wanna say it isnt an issue on 220V-240V. Once the chamber is heated, in a 68F room, it uses 30% duty cycle to keep the heat up. So probably 220watts @ 110V
The only weak link is that stupid $10 relay. So sad that companies overlook these things. As if nobody would have bought one if they were $810 instead of $800
I noticed the k2 plus has dual thermal fuses. Pretty smart
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They’ll get it ironed out surely, by the release of the qidi box
Have you ever seen “bigclivedotcom” on Youtube? His channel is just an overhead view of him taking apart and analyzing dangerous electronics. I always find them interesting.
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That is a truly awesome play on words lol. If you sent him the Dash I think he would absolutely do a video on it.
Absolutely, because the ones we can get aren’t very amazing. I don’t know enough about radioactive heating to know how in the world that’s safe lol.