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I either buy the N4 max for 370$ or buy the centauri carbon for 650$ but I don't know which to buy since people say N4 has less quality than CC and I feel like this is a steal for 370 but I'm worried it'll print bad quality for small detailed prints and for most times the CC bed is big enough but sometimes I might need to print big things so I'm not sure and I definitely like how the cc is enclosed but I feel like paying much more for something being same quality and smaller bed size so if anyone has experience please let me know.

I’m going to buy a Centauri Carbon as my first 3D printer. I was wondering what kind of things I should look out for when I get it. What kind of mods, tools, or accessories should I get. I already plan on making a riser and adding led lights inside but I’m just wondering on things I should look out for to improve prints or ease of use. Thank you for taking your time to read this.

I’ve only been using my Centauri Carbon 2 with Elegoo Marrix for a month and it’s gone down at least 10 times. It seems like as soon as I want to send something over WiFi the god damn Matrix goes down.

I posted something a couple of days ago about this issue I have run into after my canvas install. The nozzle was not keeping up with temp changes per filament. You can read about it here. https://www.reddit.com/r/elegoo/comments/1th0zxv/psa_canvas_and_dynamic_temperature_changes/

Im happy to say that I have found a solution, and it seems like a software bug, or incomplete gcode. I have attached images of where to go and what to add. Just 1 line of code needs to be added in the machine code under change filament gcode. Add this at the end of the code:

M109 S[new_filament_temp]

That's it, everything is working is it should now. All nozzle temp swaps are in sync with their respective profiles.

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Hi all,

I've finally settled on getting the CC, and what perfect timing because Elegoo have a promo running.

Now, the CC2 is within my budget, but with the discount it gets even better. This however is where things get interesting. With the current discount, the CC1 + Canvas is even cheaper and is roughly €60 cheaper than the CC2 combo.

What I'd like to know from long time users is if the changes between the CC1 and CC2 are worth the €60 increase in price. My gut reaction looking at specs and reviews is yes, but would still like the subs feedback.

TIA.

I been using 3d printers since 2018. . maybe even longer. I own 4 other elegoo machines. They all go this way. Print first print great. 2nd print great. Then all of a sudden I get fails constantly. Nothing changes. I dont tweak or change anything. They eventually become dust collectors cause I get fed up dealing with them. My neptune 4 max has been probably the best printer. It'll fail, reprint and work or fail and I'll adjust the bed 10 times to get it to eventually work. But it works.

This centauri carbon though is something else. I thought it was a fail safe printer. So I picked it up in hopes to print smaller, have clean looking prints and actually get prints done, I got tired of dealing with my resin printers cause they went to garbage after about 30-50 prints. Changing the screen, leveling repeat fail fail fail. . .

Carbon is doing the exact same thing to me. Starts out great, get about 30 min in, then fails. I had one 70% done and it failed. I got the machine on saturday I think it was. Since then I got 3 successful prints and about 19 fails.

I watched some youtube videos for advice and profile changes and still get fails.

So if you guys have any advice before I send this pile of junk back please let me know. Also, if you can recommend another company to buy from. I own a creality ender 3, 5, cs10s5 and they all have their issues as well. So I switched to elegoo and picked up a saturn 3, saturn 3 ultra, saturn 4 ultra, neptune 4 max (best printer out of all these) and now the carbon. Which I absolutely hate. Im done with these companies.

Mind you, all these printers worked over the years and to this day I can print on them. . . but its eventually..... Im tired of eventually getting something made and spending x amount of hours constantly leveling, releveling, changing out screens, resin spills ect ect ect. I just want to hit print, get it done and be happy about the outcome and move on to the next print. Instead I'm spending countless hours trying to figure out what is happening. Today I woke at 5am to start printing. It's now 1:30 pm and I still dont have one print. This is my elegoo experience. I got into this cause I'm an artist, was hoping to use this as a side hustle and all I've done is lost a ton of time and money into 3d printing. I even asked elegoo to test out their machines to give proper feedback as an artist that makes their own models but its a no go. We all have to deal with jessy and think our prints and our 3d models will turn out as good as his on these machines and it does not happen. Just a huge pain in the a......

I started trying out some stuff with TPU on my CC1 but the standard process presets are waaaay too fast so I had Claude Code create a preset. I also created a skill based on the work it did. You can find them in my Github repo here. I hope this will be of use to somebody.

That is all!

EDIT: Hey, thanks for the downvote, however I would appreciate it if you could elaborate.

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I've had an issue with ELEGOO's Rapid PETG where the filament appears to be stuck to itself, so as it loads in it repeatedly snaps. The only solution is to gently unwind it by hand then re-spool it.

What I quickly realised that this is combined with a white residue on the filament, which I think is the glue they must use to have the filament stay nice and tight on the reel without tangling.

ELEGOO's own website says for drying you need '60 ± 5 °C for 8h'. My dryer is a SUNLU that defaults to 65 degrees for PETG so my working assumption is that I've overcooked it and the dryer is running hot.

However, I've just got a brand new roll of black PETG both ELEGOO's Rapid PETG and a roll of Bambu Lab's PETG basic. I've put them both in my Bambu AMS2 and dried at 65 degrees for 8 hours. The AMS2's own internal thermometer says it's at 65 degrees and I've independently checked with my own oven thermometer. After 8 hours the Bambu filament is fine, the ELEGOO is ruined.

I get this consistently with every roll of ELEGOO Rapid PETG so I'm surprised there's not more complaints. My only solution is to dry it at a lower temp, but then I still get stringing compared to the Bambu.

As the headline implies, I am having a problem with the filament on the bottom spools of my carbon 2 getting caught behind the spools above them as prints are being made. This has already resulted in a jam that shut the unit down. Is there something I can make to help keep it feeding straight and not curling up behind the spools?

Thanks.