New Ender 3 thermal runaway? - The answer is yes!
Added 2019-12-31 00:13:28 +0000 UTCOrdered a new Ender 3 from the Creality to help me film some mods where I don't want to change my current one from the config it's in.
Picked the Australian website and it came in half a week. Good start.
Today I will be assembling it for a beginner's first 3D printer video.
My question is: will it have working thermal runaway protection?
UPDATE: It has a 1.1.4 board, no silent stepper drivers, with confirmed working thermal runaway. Both heating from cold with heater not plugged in and unplugging heater at temp. I will be sure to give them credit in the video.
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I think they're listening to customers and reviews a lot more. Naomi might be playing a role in that but that would be pure speculation.
Trey Dear
2020-01-14 16:27:17 +0000 UTCWow. I'm really surprised it had thermal runaway. I wonder when they started adding it. I still see people posting in the forums who have fairly new machines and say they did the test according to the videos on YouTube and they fail. I have seen videos of creality warehouses overflowing with ender 3 stock. So it could take quite a while for updates to make it out into the world.
Neil Siebenthal
2020-01-05 03:20:12 +0000 UTCIf you need a stock Ender 3 board with thermal runaway protection enabled, I have one with the firmware modified, as well as an EZABL Pro sensor set up for auto bed leveling. All you have to do is swap out the board, as well as mounting the sensor of course.
Brian
2020-01-05 01:58:50 +0000 UTCMy Ender 5 Pro, which comes with the silent board, had everything enabled correctly.
Short Attention Span Hobbies
2020-01-04 14:32:46 +0000 UTCAs soon as the company puts the product on their website I will be testing a Y axis linear rail kit for the Ender 3 and a Z & Y kit for the Ender 5.
Teaching Tech
2020-01-01 23:01:29 +0000 UTCI have an skr mini e3 in mine. If you could use the 1.1.4 board I'd be happy to ship it to you
Jynxx13
2019-12-31 22:26:05 +0000 UTCI believe the 1.1.4 board sold separately is different to the one that comes with inside the printer. I know it doesn't have 2208s already just by the sound.
Teaching Tech
2019-12-31 22:10:44 +0000 UTCMat, Probably so. I have two Ender 3 machines and neither one had the TR protection working. These are great machines for the money. This is not a big thing to me as well. It just seems so basic that they have not tried to protect themselves and their customers. Anyone who has tried to sue a Chinese company probably understands why they don't worry about such things. If it does not cost them anything, then they will not fix it. But, if they fix everything, then what do we get to do? I would rather save the cash and fix it for them.
Michael Lynch
2019-12-31 15:11:36 +0000 UTCI had not heard of it before, I do not think. I will have to look into it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Nicholas Hendley
2019-12-31 15:00:46 +0000 UTCIs it a 1.1.4 board??? If so you have thermal protection and tmc2208's
Jynxx13
2019-12-31 13:33:51 +0000 UTCThey do. They also understand that many Customers will say "Well for that price, and it's not a big Hustle for me,"
Mat Stu
2019-12-31 08:57:38 +0000 UTCI voted yes ( fingers crossed )
JAYTEE
2019-12-31 06:42:43 +0000 UTCI second Martin's recommendation of MatterControl. It's a great way to get good prints on a printer that's mostly level.
Kile Mullen
2019-12-31 06:25:04 +0000 UTCSorry for the second post, but my extruder started to wear out so I decided to start upgrading several parts on my Ender 3: extruder to a bondtech, hot end to micro Swiss, put in some Capricorn tubing, and I'd love to get in the skr board. I've also wondered how much benefits I'd get from putting in linear rails, like how much faster I could push some speeds with the other upgrades. Can't wait to see what you have in store Michael.
Jared Morgan
2019-12-31 03:52:30 +0000 UTCI really doubt that Creality is going to go back and hire it contract out the work to get updated firmware for their machines. I wonder if they would even do it if someone did all the work for them since they are likely putting all r&d resources on different products at this point.
Jared Morgan
2019-12-31 03:49:09 +0000 UTCIf you have problems leveling with the factory method - there is a work around - you can use Matterhackers Mattercontrol. Now its not that great of a slicer but its software controlled computer based bed leveling is great. So what I did - until i got the bed leveling on my Chiron down pat is to slice with prusa slicer and then run the gcode through Mattercontrol to add bed leveling. Their bed leveling routine is pretty simple both the one with a probe or manual one with a paper. If you know how to read and follow simple instructions you should be ok. Now the bed leveling feature IMO is the ONLY redeeming and worthwhile feature on it. But I think its well worth it.
Martin Pirringer Old Dude with a Pulse
2019-12-31 02:08:55 +0000 UTCI hope it does. IDK about Creality but I know my Anycubic Chiron does and its a low cost chinese - how do I know - I had a broken wire and it stopped. Only complaint I had was that the message was kinda cryptic It was "Sensor T0 abnormal" guess its a google translate lol. I also know the mega which is a ender competitor - same size - same price - does - how ? cause I got the question recently what does "Sensor T0 abnormal" on my Anycubic Mega mean? So my theory is that creality might just match an up and coming competitor. But then I could be wrong. Just for now I take an anycubic over a creality. Think they are solid and gives you best bang for the buck. Plus there is a crapload of support on their FB groups - anything from maintaining it to doing mods. With the mods though its - use your own judgement - as that is done by users- so sometimes someone posts "I made this great new better mount for .... " Well it might be in his/her opinion.
Martin Pirringer Old Dude with a Pulse
2019-12-31 02:04:07 +0000 UTCI try to stay positive and hope it dose but think a fully molded printer tutorial would be fantastic
Harlyn Nipp
2019-12-31 01:25:47 +0000 UTCI agree with Kenneth. Thanks for doing this. I love 3d printing but have a horrible time getting my printers leveled and a lot of basics are often glossed over by the professionals that assume everyone just knows what to do. I've yet to get my ender 3 working and my ender 5 works usually with a raft but not always. Your videos are great tutorials and I look forward to some of the impending videos mentioned in your q&a, which I need to finish watching. Looking forward to 2020!
Nicholas Hendley
2019-12-31 00:54:12 +0000 UTCI just bought a second Ender 3 X that will arrive tomorrow. Because I think the Creality control board is meh, I bought a big tree tech control board, the SKR mini E3. Primarily to drive the BL touch probe but also for the thermal runaway.
Steve Kerney
2019-12-31 00:53:18 +0000 UTCGuessing no, would prefer to be wrong
KnowBuddiesLP
2019-12-31 00:45:22 +0000 UTCMy money is on "NO". Does Creality really even understand what thermal runaway is?
Michael Lynch
2019-12-31 00:41:51 +0000 UTCNo TR on the E3Pro I bought 2 months ago. :-/
Noel Wade
2019-12-31 00:40:41 +0000 UTCMines less than 6 months old and it didn't have it.. So.. Doubt it.
Neil Siebenthal
2019-12-31 00:29:07 +0000 UTC
