r/ElegooCentauriCarbon

I had a 2+day print finishing today and I woke up to my printer stopped and it said that camera connection might be loose and my multi color board had disconnected and wouldn’t let me do anything until I rebooted it, is it V1.4.49 issues or something else?
Yes I have the canvas installed

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printing a huge project in petg, and the spool is tangled from the factory :( the CANVAS auto stops it but because the canvas spool holder are hard to get the spools off of, the cardboard broke off and all of the petg spilled onto the floor. im so disappointed.

This is my first time posting in this sub and I wanted to share my experience installing this hotend.

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To be honest, I didn't have any problems with the stock hotend, but it fell short in my opinion.

And I wanted something more reliable to be able to print with abrasive or technical filaments.

To be honest, before buying it I researched how to disassemble it and thought that the problems other users were having were due to lack of experience or carelessness. I was incredibly surprised when I almost ended up ripping off the hotend connector next to the thermistor. That connector is literally not attached to the board or it has a bad design. In the end, I had to grab some pliers and hold the plastic of the board to be able to remove the connector.

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In the end it worked out well and I already did the PID and the auto-leveling. The first layer came out spectacular and it's really an upgrade that I'm very happy with.

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The filament is Creality PETG-CR. The next test, in two months, will be with the canvas installed when it arrives, I highly recommend this hotend. Maybe when I get some nylon or ABS and a 0.6 nozzle I'll clear up the rest of my doubts.

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I haven't installed it yet but my CC1 is working perfectly right now. Should I do it?

A few of my concerns:

• Tophat design? which is the best? Are there different good ones?

• I have started using TPE recently and have concerns that there will be issues with flexible filaments. I saw there was an adapter by elegoo for the canvas for FF but it wasn't functional, another redditor here linked to a remix, does anyone have experience with FF and CANVAS?

• I read the feeder gears were loose in the canvas for someone and they had to tighten something to make theirs work? Has anyone else seen weird problems that have workarounds or fixes you've had to yo up?

• Is there any difference after installation when you only want to print in one color, like extra or different settings on the printer itself, or in the slicer?

Thanks for reading

Hey all, im about 80 hours into an 88 hour print so Im really looking for some help to save this.

My canvas is acting a bit off lately. Every color swap is giving my a failure to feed error. There's no tangles or anything that would prevent Canvas from feeding, when I hit retry, it heats up to temp, attempts to feed, and I have to seemingly help give the filament a little push through. I do feel like I hear a clicking and then it feeds fine. After that itll print find for a bit but itll happen again on the next color swap, all 3 colors are doing this at the same time.

Mind you, it was doing just fine for the last 3 days of printing.

Im out of town now but if I can get suggestions to try when I get home, it would be much appreciated!

UPDATE: I'm home now and caught it in the act. When the CANVAS is pushing filament up towards the head, it seems like it just can't anymore, like thevgears are trying to turn, butbeither they cant grip the filament, or arent strong enough. If I give the filament a little push, it gets the rest of the way. I think the click i was describing might better be the sound of something stuck getting unstuck.

UPDATE 2: Unfortunately I had to stop thevprint to start troubleshooting, good news its just some terrain for 40k and I got what is needed to print. After toying around with it I believe something in the print head, either the 4 to 1 or something in the extruder, are stopping just barely blocking the filament from entering. For example, if i push down on the 4 to 1, the filament is suddenly free to go into the spot its trying to get to. The CANVAS is fine, but it can't force it passed whatever is blocking it. At this point I think i just need to call in Elegoo support and see if they can do anything.

So after installing the upgrade kit to my cc1, it boots up like nothing has happened and cannot load a single filament. I get blinking white lights in the canvas at start up which settle on filament 4. I have tried updating ota but this says latest version (v1.1.25) and gives no other options. Ive looked for a download to boot by usb but cant seem to find anything but the manual.

Having seen a couple of threads on here I have been back and double checked all connections, as well as restored to factory settings.

Any ideas? I am tearing my hair out here.

Edit: corrected software version

Edit 2: I have now updated to 1.4.49 and it's made no difference except I now get errors that the print head cover is removed (its not).

Hey so I'm still getting used to using the canvas.. I'm running into an issue when setting a print to do a layer color change. I just sent a print over to change colors halfway through and it skipped the color change and printed in the original color only. I also noticed it did not print the prime tower that the slicer instructed it to. The tower was set well within the bounds of the print bed and I also turned off the option to automatically switch to another roll if one runs out because I had this happen on another print as well where it picked the wrong color to resume with after a pause was initiated. I'm not sure why it's not printing the prime tower or if that's just something it only does if there is a same layer color change? Either way I don't know why it didn't just pause itself if it couldn't load the correct color during the change since I turned off the automatic refill option or whatever it's called where it chooses to resume with a filament of the same parameters when there is an issue or one runs out. Any help on this would be much appreciated. For reference I have tested this before to print 4 different colors on the same layer and it did print a prime tower when I did that.