🚀 Elevate Your 3D Printing Game!
The BLTouch is the latest auto bed leveling sensor designed for 3D printers, ensuring precision and compatibility with various bed materials. Its smart technology and easy setup make it a must-have for any serious maker looking to enhance their printing experience.
J**O
La mejor compra
Una de las mejores actualizaciones para mi impresora 3D. Muy contento con la compra; el sensor funciona a la perfección y ya no tengo que sufrir por la nivelación de la cama.
J**K
From CRTouch to BLTouch
I have a Ender 3 V2 NEO. Have gone through 2 CRTouche's, 1 from catastrophic encounter with a print when the pin deployed due to a wire breaking. The second one, would not stop rattling, and started giving inaccurate measurement's up to 0.2 off.By moving to the BLTouch, no cable rewiring or firmware upgrade required as they are interchangeable. I have not had any more rattling which makes me super happy. Every bed tram so far has moved less than 0.02 which is understandable with spring bed, but its usually spot on.My only complaint about the BLTouch is its annoying bright red light, which i printed a kick butt shroud that covers it and dims the red lightbulb into a red bed laser :)I am so far very happy with the BLTouch and its replaceable pin vs bendapin CRTouch.
M**T
Technical install, but the unit works!
This product works as advertised, with a few caveats. The connection from the extension cable to the mainboard is generally loose and can cause unexpected behavior if not secured. I wedged some thin cardstock in beside it to hold it tight and that finally did the trick. I won't lower the product rating for that since its a known issue in the community and doesn't reflect the actual performance of this genuine and functional BL Touch unit. Some people have attached the correct style of connector for their specific board in their install tutorials. I would not rate the install as "easy" since I do not have pin tools and opted to strip and solder the wires to connect the extension cable to the factory one. Once that was done, I fed the wires through the braided cable management compression tubes down to the mainboard and plugged it it. Having the 4.2.2 mainboard, I didn't require any additional interface equipment (transfer board). Older boards will, and you may want to look for a complete interface kit if you have an older board. This kit doesn't have a mounting bracket for the BL Touch, so I printed my own. Flashing the new firmware from creality.com/download was easy for this model of mainboard (4.2.2 or the newer 4.2.7), I simply erased an SD card, placed the new .BIN file on the SD, inserted it into the printer, and booted it up. After that finished, I wiped the card, loaded some print files, and returned the card to the printer before configuring the new setup since settings will be saved on the SD card. Overall, I am extremely pleased with the performance of the BL Touch and, having fixed my loose connection to the mainboard, the unit itself works perfectly every time. I have since upgraded to the 4.2.7 mainboard, and the unit also works perfectly with that. I have also added OctoPrint on a Raspberry Pi and the bed visualization plugin that displays the mesh data from the BL Touch in a graphical format makes it even easier to fine-tune a perfect base-level print platform so that the automatic bed leveling system has less work to do.
S**S
This sensor works great but has little documentation from the supplier
This sensor works great but has little documentation from the supplier. I took away a star due to poor documentation and difficult installation. You should start by googling and searching for people who have done this before on your specific printer. Unless you are comfortable with wiring, soldering, and tweaking firmware you should only attempt this if you find someone who has your exact printer and they provide detailed instructions. It is nice if you can get firmware that just needs to be loaded.I installed it on my GEEETECH I3 Pro B. Fortunately for me, there are discussions in the forums on the GEEETECH website. Someone even had updated the latest Marlin stable build for this sensor so I got a newer less-buggy firmware out of this upgrade too. The wiring described on the GEEETECH site is for a clone called a 3DTouch but it is electrically and physically the same. There is a bracket STL that you can download. I modified the bracket a little to allow me to use the springs that come with the BLTouch. The BLTouch comes with screws and springs that you can use to make an adjustable height installation. This comes in handy because you need to get the relative height correct between your hot end tip and the body of the BLTouch.I have a GT2560 controller and there are instructions for how to get to the right pins on the GEEETECH site. You need to de-solder a connector and replace it with a different connector to get to the I/O pin. My main problem with installation is that I did not notice that the wires should be swapped between the controller and the BLTouch so that the I/O is on the middle pin. I think this is the BLTouch orange wire. In any case, after you get past this, and find the right firmware it works great.This is my first attempt at auto-bed-leveling. The first layer goes down perfectly. I should have done this a long time ago. Physical bed leveling is a pain. The Z axis is constantly going up/down during the print. Not sure how accurate this can be so it's probably good to have a reasonably level bed even with auto-leveling.
A**R
as described
as described
Trustpilot
4 days ago
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