r/ender5plus

Not asking for help necessarily, but wanted to vent more than anything.
Had my Ender 5 plus for a few years now, and never really had many major issues with it. A few replaced bearings and wheels and stuff, but nothing mega.

Well last night, I was 12 hours into a 16 hour print, and out of no where, the wire going into my hot end to the thermistor has broke, so the printer thinks the hotend is at -15c and killed everything.

Very frustrating to say the least. I've been debating other all metal hot ends, and even Microswiss, but given I've been fine with stock, I think I'm just going to replace with stock.

Then I thought (stupidly) I'd need to unplug it all from the main board, so I've got the printer on it's side to get the bottom plate off, the plate drops, and pulls the pads off the board inside the little 40mm fan on the bottom case. So now I also have to replace that.

Only to find, that you don't unplug from the board, there's separate connectors after the board, so that was a pointless move.

I was doing all this at 7am this morning after finding it failed overnight, so I just wasn't thinking straight.

I've also since found the replacement hotend kit with a new cable doesn't include the BLTouch cable, so I've got to extract that out of my current braided cabling so I can swap it over.

In the middle of pretty big project my friend has commissioned me to make them something, and now it's all on hold while I wait for new parts and get it back up and running.
All very annoying!

Wish me luck!

I've got an older mostly-stock Ender 5 Plus that's been having an extrusion issue. It'll print normally for a few layers, then the extruder starts chewing the filament with nothing coming out while the printer keeps moving.

I've checked the extruder and it seems to have plenty of pushing force. It's a metal assembly and isn't cracked. I've replaced the nozzle, replaced the Bowden tube, and cleaned out the hotend. I also cleaned the heatsink fan.

I'm printing PLA at 200–215°C. I originally pulled the filament right after it stopped and found that the filament was swelling from 1.75mm to around 2mm for roughly 40mm near the hotend.

In my last few tests, I've been pulling the Bowden tube out right when it stops extruding. The section of filament above the heatsink was soft/hot, which makes me think the filament is getting heat creep farther up into the Bowden tube.

At this point I'm wondering if I'm dealing with a weak/failing hotend fan, a heat-break issue, or something else I'm overlooking.

Anyone have thoughts on what I should check next?

Well, about a week ago I posted that I completed the conversion of my E5+ to Endorphin Stage 1.

Cheap to do, easy enough. And since I was already running Klipper, it was just a single line to change in the configuration.

After trying to get it working properly for a week, I found that the pushing and pulling forces for the X-carriage cause the right side of the two Y to move slightly.

I swapped wheels from regular POM to polycarbonate ones, changed belts from fibre core to steel core belts, did lots of wheel tension adjustments and cranked the belt tension up to uncomfortably high levels.

It all helped a little bit, but the deformations on the prints was still there. In the back-left to front-right direction, the line spacing was slightly larger than it should be, and in the back-right to front-left it was closer than it should.

When doing the X-axis resonance test, it started out that the right side Y carriage moved back and forth visibly. After all the trying to adjust, it wasn't as much visible, but I could still feel it moving back and forth.

All in all, I think stage 1 is definitely not the way to go. Maybe stage 2 is better, but I'm not even gonna try.

While it did push me to do the wheel and belt upgrade, I am a bit disappointed. Putting things back the way they were (except for the wheels and belts) and I'm gonna start collecting parts to do the Mercury One mod.

Hey everyone! I've had my ender 5 plus for about 7 years now, when I first got it, it ran great. I have been struggling for the past couple years on and off with getting to print, my last successful print was 3+ years ago, and I have been slacking on maintenance since then. When I run things manually, everything seems to run fine, but as soon as I load up my file, my filimant no longer will extrude. I have the silent board, an all metal hotend, and have upgraded the extruder, everything else is essentially factory, minus the tubes and the bltouch. I am not too sure what the issue is, the last print I tried I think failed due to user error, when I loaded up my benchy, it started the print in the front left corner rather than in the center of my board. Thank you for any advice!