i recommend staying away from this printer; i have one and it is nothing but trouble;
having an FLSUN V400 and lot of trouble with it, FLSUN Still has bolloxed up the filament feed system on the S1;
this time it is the filament unload steps; ridiculous ;
rather than follow them i elected to just print to the end of the spool for runout;
i might bypass the top part of the filament feed system and use the alternative back side port IF I KEEP this printer;
i got a clog on high speed filament provided by flsun after just 3 hours of printing;
the model i used was from flsun slicer v 1.1.5; nearly all stock ,print profile settings; no speed changes;
this is my 9th different 3d printer and i would rate it 2nd from the bottom;
i will replace the hotend (the V400 had a design flaw and the hot end would trap unmelted plastic and have to be replaced) ;
FLSUN should take a page from bambu lab ( i have 3 A1s ) and do the entire filament ecosystem right; i will give this printer maybe 4 or so more hours and then trash it if the problems continue or new ones arise;
maybe i should have gotten the hint when a spare hotend was included with the purchase, maybe they should have included half a dozen with large instructions;
AND , as to the filament ecosystem , just said “do it your own way”;
the assembly instructions were a joke insofar as the door hinges were concerned, tiny useless images and lack of steps;;
as with the V400, reading from the USB drives is problematic ; better to use the web interface and “send to printer” via LAN;
altogether i am sorry i bought this printer , even should the replaced hotend work, it reveals behavior similar to the v400, which i replaced the hotend 4 or so times;
and OF COURSE, there are no replacement hotends as replacement parts on the FLSUN website ( looking at the construction of the hotend, it looks like a replacement nozzle (simple V300 ? ( or CHT)) might be simple, however the V400 issue was upstream of the heated nozzle…);
i would recommend this printer if you desire to continuously , non-stop print 8 minute benchies ( g-code provided by flsun with the purchase)
You haven’t had much luck with them. My v400 is still running well I have not had any of the problems you have. Their slicer profiles are bad and the speed quite optimistic, overly so of course so is my Bambu neither hot ends can keep up.
I wonder if you are having issues due to the environment you have the printers in?
I have been hearing a lot of split opinions with the new FLSUN machines, either you really like them, or really hate them.
Personally from what I have used, it seems to be an ok enough machine. It does what it says it does (except the flowrate, that is complete horseradish). My concern is just, are we reaching the point where these machines are actually too fast? There is a limit to what the polymer can support in terms of melting and cooling before it starts to produce issues. In my opinion the FLSUN rides this line very closely. This of course leads to reliability issues, not on the part of the machine itself, but rather on the material.
Actually speed depends as the mk4 & mk4S are the one of the fastest with normal filaments with best quality the exemption is the nozzzled are getting smaller since 5 years ago now about high speed 3DPrinters the filament needs to melt faster so be sure to check with the manufacturer of the 3DPrinter
& it’s best practice to get 3DPrinterd from the factory or official resellers but first watch at least 4 different video reviews like on YouTube.com
Mathew that is very true. 1200mm/s is crazy fast. It tries to do this. I can move fast enough but it can’t really melt most materials that fast. PCL excluded. It prints fast. I think a lot of the quality issues fall into its simply too fast. I have a 0.6 nozzle and really only use it for big structural prints rather than fine detailed ones.