r/ender5

Hello there,

I am dusting up my old Ender 5 pro and getting it ready for printing when I moved the Nozzle Assembly in the X and Y direction, and man that thing is not smooth at all. To top it off it is making some really strange grinding noises when I move it back and forth and it halts movement when the wheels make a full 360 turn. It could be that my wheels are too tight or I have to replace the belts. Posted here for anyone with more experience to help me solve this issue

I was given an Ender 5 Plus, it has the silent mainboard and bltouch upgrades, and I just swapped out and upgraded the extruder, hotend, etc. This is my first ever exploration into 3D printing, so please forgive my extreme ignorance...

I have figured this shit out up to the software side of things. From a hardware side, it works fine now. However, this whole Z Axis thing is really fucking with me and is inconsistent. I realized it's on an old firmware (1.70.2BL) so I figured I would install/flash firmware.

I got up to a point of getting SOMETHING to happen on screen, but it freezes right after the .BMP transfer and does/shows nothing else. Rebooted, now it loads into a blank screen. Tells me the firmware failed... maybe I'm using the wrong firmware, I don't know... I genuinely do not understand this side of things and just want to get my printer set up so I can start printing.

Can someone please give me clear, direct, step by step instructions with the files I need linked in the order of steps so I can use this thing. I am autistic and a wall of text that provides all these extra "if you wanna go the extra step, do this" overloads and I get lost. So just whatever it is that I need. I don't care the pros and cons of the different modded firmwares to try. I just need SOMETHING to work. Because right now, I have a 2'x2' brick sitting in my office.

Ciao la mia Ender 5 pro con scheda creality 1.1.5v non legge i firmware che metto nella SD. E tutto corretto, inserisco la SD nel pc la formatto in fat32 (dovrebbe essere corretto) espello la SD spengo la stampante inserisco la SD nella scheda accendo e si avvia Marlin normalmente. Penso sia un problema di bootloader. Sto provando ad installare klipper.

Hi all. I’ve been constantly flashing the firmware on my board so many times to reset it back from klipper to the default on creality but the lcd screen remains black. Is this because flashing it with klipper killed my screen or is it because it is not flashed correctly? I want to confirm also that if I flash a .bin on the board with the same file name it won’t work, that is the only thing that comes to mind that could solve my problem.

Ender 5 pro

Bltouch

Board Marlin 4.2.7

Hello, I just pulled my Ender 5 Pro out of storage after a 4+ year break, what is the current slicer software to use? If I remember correctly I used to use Cura and prusa slicer. Are these still good options? Thanks.

*Thanks, I'll take a look at Orca Slicer also

I’ve got an ender 5 with a stage 1 endorphin mod. It’s having issues with the Bowden tube/hotend and fundamentally is being held back by a slow hotend. I’ve decided to change the hotend but there is a world of choice. I’m thinking full metal as I may eventually box it in. I certainly want a faster flow, generally happy with 0.4 nozzles. I don’t mind printing some ABS parts, I have access to some nicer printers at work so that’s fine. I don’t really want to spend more than £50 because at the end of the day it’s an ender 5. I’m totally fine with the wait and see that is aliexpress. What have people gone with and what influenced the choices?

I'm working on a printer for my friend. I found a non BTT firmware and flashed it to the Ender. Everything works except for the limit switches. All 3 axis go the opposite direction. When I try to home they go the opposite direction of the switches. Is there any way to reverse them in the settings? I didn't see anything.

I'm wanting to do tpu 85a and find that skipping the boden tube is a necessity to prevent stretching which lowers the extruding diameter; however I'm struggling to find an STL. My searches keep hitting Ender 5, but max just doesn't come up. I've also tried searching here for any mention of top mounting and direct drive setups and am getting no hits.

Any help? I'm about to have to take another stl and do some dirty stuff with primitives and boolean to make my own out of someone elses...