I have an original Creality Ender 3 with an 8-bit board. I am aware of many options that exist for upgrading my machine to a 32-bit experience. Which control board would you recommend and why? I’ve been told Big Tree Tech SKR Mini E3’s are great, Creality 32-bit Ender 3 replacements, Duet wifi con…

I have the SKR Mini E3 (v1.4 I believe) and am quite happy with it. When I upgraded to a dual-geared extruder (BMG clone), my esteps went to 398 (makes sense; the ratio is about a 4:1). As a result, that poor stepper had to spin a LOT faster and it was very loud. I can barely hear anything. When ret…

I upgraded to the BIGTREETECH SKR Mini E3 V2.0 at Black Friday for my Ender 3 Pro. I have been very happy. I’ll be honest I never found the stock Ender 3 Pro to be THAT loud (compared to what I assumed from all my reading beforehand) but was amazed at how much quieter it got with this board. I was a…

Can someone explain the purpose of upgrading from an 8-bit to a 32-bit board?

More memory capacity and expandability. If you install a BLTouch on an 8 bit board often times you need to disable some of the 3d printers features to enable the BLTouch capabilities.

I went for a BIGTREETECH SKR V1.3 board with BIGTREETECH TMC2209 V1.2 steppers and i love it. The printer is a lot quieter. I was able to activate a lot of feature in the Marlin firmware that wasn’t possible with the original board. Also, i was able to remove the X and Y limit switch because the T…

Hi Bill I’m actually just doing a post on this topic. Let me know what you think Jason H

I have had 3 BTT E3 Mini boards in my Ender 3. My first v1.2 died when the X motor driver failed, a few weeks after installing it. The motors were hot enough to fry eggs on. I discovered that this was a frequent failure mode, but noone was quite sure what caused it. I blocked the 5VDC pin on my …

I Also have the SKR mini E3. In my 2019 Ender 3 Pro it’s the Mini E3 1.2 with the stock screen In My 2020 Ender 3 Pro with BLV Rails it’s the Mini E3 2.0 and the TFT35 E3 Dual mode Screen I love them both, the fans were louder then the Printers!! I’ve sence swapped the 40x40x10 SUNON silent fans…

I think it’s important to be cautious about what people post, especially on Reddit. The schematics of these boards and code are available, so there doesn’t have to be a lot of guesswork around how these boards work.

Always cautious. Good advice. I followed the BTT GitHub to get the full story on this thermistor/ADC EMI issue. BTT acknowledge the problem, they advise which components to remove and short out if you want to fix your own board and all new boards now have zero ohm resistors where the capacitors u…

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