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frontpage Posted by gabe23111 • Feb 17, 2025
Feb 17, 2025 2:35 PM
Pre-Order: Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D Printer
+ S/H$300
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Lots of people raised this issue on Reddit, Facebook etc, and Elegoo pretty much said too bad.
Hard for me to trust initial releases after that, especially when a lot of "reviews" thus far are from paid YouTubers.
Just my 2 cents.
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Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo with AMS
Anycubic.com: $649 (and often on sale). Free shipping and no sales tax for most US buyers
From Amazon in a few weeks: $579 + tax
Availability: March 15-March 25, 2025
spool holder on back
good interior lighting
better camera
mobile app for remote print monitoring
AMS has dryer built-in filament dryer (but only up to 55C)
Plastic door and lid
hardened steel nozzle only available aftermarket at the moment ($28)
hardened steel extruder not yet available ($xx/xx?)
NOTE: Hardened steel nozzle and extruder are for printing abrasive filaments. The included copper nozzle is typically preferred for non-abrasive filaments
250mm x 250mm x 250mm build volume
Anycubic has an Excellent (4.7 stars) customer rating on Trustpilot
Elegoo Centauri Carbon
Elegoo.com: $299.99 + $30 shipping PLUS $xx.xx? for the future AMS):
Availability: "Before June 30, 2025"
AMS availability: Q3 2025
Spool holder on side
poor interior lighting
no mobile app for remote monitoring (but there's a community-created app [OctoEverywhere] that might be handy for this)
Glass door and lid
hardened steel nozzle
hardened steel extruder
256mm x 256mm x 256mm build volume
32 mm3/s flow rate
Elegoo has a "Poor" (2.7 stars) customer rating on Trustpilot
Both printers FOR SURE need some software and firmware updates to fix existing shortcomings. History says that Elegoo isn't great about following up with updates, but Anycubic has had problems in this area well.
One other thing to note, which sort of helped me preorder This Elegoo (who am I kidding, I would have ordered it anyways lol)... It uses the same bed size as the Bambu Core XY printers, and you will be able to use your Bambu plates with this. I have about $300 I invested in plates for my P1S (thank you Darkmoon for being a big part of that lol)
I would personally say, Anycubic S1 this then K1 C
One other thing to note, which sort of helped me preorder This Elegoo (who am I kidding, I would have ordered it anyways lol)... It uses the same bed size as the Bambu Core XY printers, and you will be able to use your Bambu plates with this. I have about $300 I invested in plates for my P1S (thank you Darkmoon for being a big part of that lol)
I was wondering about that I figured they made some alteration so that you could not use the bambu plates
I'm not giving up by P1S any time soon (love it!), but this $300 price point and the ability to use my current plates, made this an easy decision for my 2nd printer.
Lots of people raised this issue on Reddit, Facebook etc, and Elegoo pretty much said too bad.
Hard for me to trust initial releases after that, especially when a lot of "reviews" thus far are from paid YouTubers.
Just my 2 cents.
Regardless, it was a machine that was shipped with Marlin and bad enough documentation of the board that the Marlin community collectively struggled to the firmware to compile without errors. Instead of stepping in to help in any capacity, Elegoo just rushed out an updated model with a completely different board merely 6 months later. That's a short enough timeframe that the release of the N3 Pro on it's own kind of stings for buyers of the original N3, but that sting is made much worse by the fact that the N3 was NEVER ready for release and then was immediately abandoned by the manufacturer.
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my 3D printer isn't the project...
my 3D printer isn't the project...
Regardless, it was a machine that was shipped with Marlin and bad enough documentation of the board that the Marlin community collectively struggled to the firmware to compile without errors. Instead of stepping in to help in any capacity, Elegoo just rushed out an updated model with a completely different board merely 6 months later. That's a short enough timeframe that the release of the N3 Pro on it's own kind of stings for buyers of the original N3, but that sting is made much worse by the fact that the N3 was NEVER ready for release and then was immediately abandoned by the manufacturer.
Lots of people raised this issue on Reddit, Facebook etc, and Elegoo pretty much said too bad.
Hard for me to trust initial releases after that, especially when a lot of "reviews" thus far are from paid YouTubers.
Just my 2 cents.
Regardless, it was a machine that was shipped with Marlin and bad enough documentation of the board that the Marlin community collectively struggled to the firmware to compile without errors. Instead of stepping in to help in any capacity, Elegoo just rushed out an updated model with a completely different board merely 6 months later. That's a short enough timeframe that the release of the N3 Pro on it's own kind of stings for buyers of the original N3, but that sting is made much worse by the fact that the N3 was NEVER ready for release and then was immediately abandoned by the manufacturer.
Sorry for being yet another one to bring you a stick to beat your N3 with.
Adding a pi, connecting it to the 4 uart pins on the mobo, and flashing an image took me about an hour round trip. From printing with Marlin to printing in Klipper. The process has certainly changed. It's mainline klipper now, so full update capabilities and printing profiles that actually work.
I'm with you, the N3 series was NOT ready to release, its a well made clone of an upgraded ender 3, but they didnt think all the upgrades through and the execution stumbled, the N4 series has been great for me, but needs $5 extra hardware to fix most of what's wrong with it. Again, little things hang up the whole line of products.
If you pop into the Elegoo discord, there's a carbon channel where non-youtubers also have carbon's, so there's some more realistic feedback and pics, and people already with the machine to answer questions. So far, I've been satisfied with the honesty and frankness of the feedback, and someone's working on breaking the machine out of Elegoo's firmware and getting it back to mainline klipper.
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