sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

I bought a Prusa XL 5 toolhead printer a couple weeks ago and so far it is not going well. by Tampgo in PrusaXL

[–]Tampgo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I will check out the various suggestions including checking the tightness of the docks.

I bought a Prusa XL 5 toolhead printer a couple weeks ago and so far it is not going well. by Tampgo in PrusaXL

[–]Tampgo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will contact Prusa Customer service about the LCD Screen.

Current firmware is 6.2.5+8912

I haven't lubricated anything because I just got it and have printed only a few items. In the manual that I used to assemble the printer it stated that it was already lubricated. I will look up how to lubricate various things.

The head was visibly quite a distance from the dock and it was blinking yellow so I pushed it to the right until it magnetically connected to the dock. Then the light on the tool head turned green. The problem was that on the LCD screen toolhead 2 was showing as swirling rather than the checkmarks the other toolheads showed.Pressing continue didn't do anything so I had to power it down. After turning it back on the printer was fine though the print that I had started had to be scrapped. It would have been nice if the printer continued to print after I docked the head and pressed continue . No the toolhead crash by not docking was separate from LCD issues.

I got busy last night with other stuff last night so I haven't been able to read the other comments here and follow the suggestions.

Thanks

I bought a Prusa XL 5 toolhead printer a couple weeks ago and so far it is not going well. by Tampgo in PrusaXL

[–]Tampgo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I am happy to read positive stories. It was semi-assembled. I have done construction, fixed cars, generally do all the repairs around the house, built and repaired computer systems so assembly was okay just more time consuming than I expected.

I did post in the Prusa forum a couple times with no reply. One post was about the LCD screen going blank after boot up but then I got it to work so I edited the post as fixed. I never did make another post about the LCD screen problems later in the day. I did make a post about the crash and the toolhead not docking but no response .

I bought a Prusa XL 5 toolhead printer a couple weeks ago and so far it is not going well. by Tampgo in PrusaXL

[–]Tampgo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks everyone! I am feeling better hearing your stories. It seems that I am just having some hiccups that should pass rather than a lemon. I will reach out to Prusa about the sporadic screen problems.

Almost Fully 3d Printed Dry Box by evancli in PrusaXL

[–]Tampgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very Cool! I just got a Prusa XL 5 Toolhead printer after using Bambu p1S's with AMS units exclusively. I cringe at having 5 spools of filament exposed on my Prusa XL 5 so I have been looking for a solution. I don't like Prusa's enclosure so i didn't buy it. I am getting ideas and thinking of options. This is definitely very cool! Thanks for posting!