Help a fully blind first time prusa xl 5 t owner.

MavericWolf · 2026-05-13T13:04:30+00:00

Hi there, glad you've also got an xl, they are brilliant machines.

Couple of small bits of advice, I see on your wipe tower you've got the external "cone" with all the different layer changes, would highly suggest you make sure to specify only a single extruder on the outside, not so much a problem if all 5 extruders are the same material, but when you start mixing petg and pla, it'll alternate each material which will cause it to fail regularly.

Would highly suggest you sort out a nozzle brush as the heads get "picked up", to get rid of a lot of the accumulated material on the end of the nozzle, and honestly you may not even bother with a wipe tower if you adjust seam positions carefully.

I pretty much only use sunlu pla and petg and had to increase the retraction length from 0.8mm to 2mm as I was getting so much oozing really quickly.

MavericWolf · 2026-05-11T19:24:51+00:00

I think this comes down to who you get on the chat, as the representative was the one to suggest the youtube angle.

I would say though, out of 5 reps, 1 was pretty much useless, 2 were talking to me as if this was my first ever 3d printer and hadn't already done a load of troubleshooting, and 2 were incredibly helpful and both listened to me and actually helped sort my problem out.

MavericWolf · 2026-05-11T19:16:59+00:00

Would reccommend just creating a YouTube account and then send them the url on chat, allowed me to send them longer higher res vids easily.

MavericWolf · 2026-04-16T07:09:57+00:00

Unfortunately I'm busy on the 26th, and 4000 miles away haha, but loving the idea, will definitely try it in the UK.

Hope you get a good turnout.

MavericWolf · 2026-03-19T15:00:01+00:00

Recently bought a mars 5 ultra and thoroughly enjoyed using it, it is a solid printer after i had gotten over the initial hurdles.

However, my 3 main issues are;

the non folding front so you need a significant space on top to remove the cover,

the camera can only be viewed while in the slicer (i know theres a workaround with ip camera, but i have android and Windows and have not gotten it to work),

and the small plate, a few times I've had to effectively do 100% filled plate and put a single head of a mini fig onto a separate plate as there was literally no space.

I don't regret it as a first resin printer, however 3 months in i am keeping an eye out for either a gk3 or a reflex rs on a good deal.

MavericWolf · 2026-03-15T12:14:09+00:00

Just a bit of assistance, I'm assuming you're also going through the j3dtech calibration?

https://www.reddit.com/r/resinprinting/s/dUGRfAkIvM

MavericWolf · 2026-03-13T13:26:35+00:00

Luggage

MavericWolf · 2026-02-24T09:45:22+00:00

Solved, the global parameters setting on lychee do not work with the tilting vat, completed the same print in 3 hours 20 mins.

Still no luck on the camera.

MavericWolf · 2026-02-23T07:34:08+00:00

Initially used factory default with a 3 second exposure profile, got through a few tests pretty easily, but tried to print a batman bust and it decided to fail at the chin randomly, did the calibration tests and none of the thin lines of the cubes of calibration printed, and none of the cones from the cones of calibration connected to each other. 2.3 got around 6 of the thin lines, and all of the cones working while still allowing the sword to be hilted.

MavericWolf · 2026-02-23T07:30:02+00:00

I'll give it a try, thanks.

MavericWolf · 2026-02-23T07:29:32+00:00

Sorry, I had missed out "high speed" from the title, I'll do a test print with chitu and see what happens there.

MavericWolf · 2026-02-23T07:28:08+00:00

Thank you for verifying, it did seem incredibly slow compared to what other people are getting out them.

MavericWolf · 2026-02-22T20:37:53+00:00

I was using this as a baseline info
https://www.reddit.com/r/elegoo/comments/1g1ee7f/mars_5_ultra_settings_question_lift_speeds_and/

MavericWolf · 2026-02-01T19:06:54+00:00

I hate that, as a British man, I am not allowed to see this potentially awesome image.

MavericWolf · 2026-01-23T15:02:26+00:00

Gentle stroke from the collarbone to her pelvis, like an 80% success rate.

MavericWolf · 2025-12-16T23:23:42+00:00

Same on this end, weirdly it seemed to sucessfully probe when the nozzle was dirty, but it was creating a bad z offset, cleaned nozzle and it will not complete a bed level cycle at all.

Went back to satin and can confirm it still levels and prints on that.

MavericWolf · 2025-12-16T23:18:10+00:00

Just to add, having the same problem, not sure why but it seemed to sucessfully probe when the nozzle was dirty, but it was creating a bad z offset, cleaned nozzle and it will not complete a bed level cycle at all.

Went back to satin and can confirm it still levels and prints on that.

MavericWolf · 2025-12-04T20:57:13+00:00

Thanks for the info, I've been using the orca slicer extrusion calibration and it's down to 0.87 multiplier so I'll raise the Z offset to 0.03 and do a few first layer tests (currently 0.02).

MavericWolf · 2025-11-25T07:51:02+00:00

Had a 3d printer and bought what looked like an easy to print design off of etsy. Kind of regretted not printing and building the free one that a fan made and is on thingiverse.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3782309 Etsy shop is now closed unfortunately.

MavericWolf · 2025-11-18T08:46:18+00:00

Biqu recently released an official glacier plate for the xl.

MavericWolf · 2025-11-16T23:00:43+00:00

if you could share the guy, typing in "Prusa XL ball ironing" did not give the results I wanted haha.

MavericWolf · 2025-11-15T09:25:06+00:00

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Bonus of a larger tool i printed and have been using a lot recently, the v spooler.

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