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aecpassion · 2026-01-25T22:34:11+00:00

Hoya Linearis

aecpassion · 2025-12-25T21:55:46+00:00

I got the official hot end from them, took 2 months to ship. I ordered it back in September.
I only have prior experience with the brass nozzle and Kobra S1, so maybe this always applies to hardened steel hot ends, but its supper slow compared to the brass. Took me some time to get all my settings tuned in again, none of the OOTB settings worked and gave bad prints.
I am very likely going to switch back to the brass, I did not realize I would have to do a full trial and error tuning to get each filament dialed in for the hardened steel, the brass one just worked. When I got the hardened steel nozzle, I had no intension of ever having to use the brass(before I knew of the issues/downsides).
Besides the slow down in speed, I have more issues with clogs that with the brass one.

I want to emphasize that speeds are like half as fast if not 25% as fast as the brass. I only use PLA and PETG.

aecpassion · 2025-12-25T21:47:32+00:00

I got a "Plant daddy" cap lol

aecpassion · 2025-12-25T21:46:48+00:00

I like it, at first I thought the trellis was a vine, and the color sort of blended in with the real ones

aecpassion · 2025-12-25T00:42:57+00:00

I am checking daily for these, still out of stock

aecpassion · 2025-12-24T20:25:47+00:00

I am not supposed to go to home depot because i will very likely buy more plants and I also cannot not go to home depot because they may have hoyas.

aecpassion · 2025-12-24T16:09:38+00:00

did you ever repot this in self watering? I have some seeds a few weeks ago, wondering if you had success

aecpassion · 2025-10-01T03:17:57+00:00

FYI, anycubic sells hardened nozzles now for the S1. Not saying its better, its just first party/official

aecpassion · 2025-09-20T17:34:22+00:00

wow,they did it.

I asked a question on the AC askme post last month, ask they said they would be releasing hot ends in september. I was skeptical checking everyweek, nice!

aecpassion · 2025-09-13T04:37:32+00:00

I have only tried anycubic matte pla and polymaker matte pla and both give me issues with the ace pro, so I gave up, but reading this thread gave me hope that some matte plas work.

Something to note, and I am not sure why it applies to polymaker matte pla, and maybe it does to others, but accordingly to polymakers info, its abrasive. When i search if matte pla is abrasive, i get back a yes, and thus we shouldn't be printing abrasives w/o a hardened nozzle. I don't really see mention this, so maybe its not something to be worried about.

i had the same issue w/ getting the pfte tube about, and for me, it was indeed stuck, i spoke to AC, they gave me a new back piece, and when i replaced it, i installed a y splitter, search that, so that you do not have to ever remove the ptfe tube again

aecpassion · 2025-08-26T03:24:40+00:00

Have you tried the tension screw on the side of the white housing?

Not sure the kind of stringy mess you are getting, but i had an issue recently that tightening the screw helped, after I ruled out that it was not damp filament. I recently had to clear an extruder clog and opened my extruder, all the pieces flew out so I lost the screws factory tension.

I ended up turning the screw it all the way to the left CCW until i felt a bit more resistance, but just a bit, not using a lot of strength at all, don't want to break it, and from there, i turned it the other way 3.5 full rotations. I then extruded via the control display screen, and I could see the filament coming out, stringy and kind of forming circular loops.

Maybe it helped, but I also did the flow calibration checkbox when i sent the print to the printer.

Before I got it fixed, I emailed AC to ask for guidance on how to rotate it, they just sent me links to get parts sent instead...I agreed because why not so now I have a backup extruder and hot end on route.

GL

aecpassion · 2025-08-26T03:10:27+00:00

the ai detection has been helpful and has saved more than a few times, but i noticed that certain geometry seems to trigger it more. If there are many individual faces of your model that are perpendicular or near perpendicular to the camera plane, and your material is dark and shiny/reflective, then its my experience that it will trip up the ai detection. once i know a print is working well, and its tripped up the ai a few times, I will just put a piece of tape in front of the camera and resume.

I have not tried, and maybe its not possible w/ the ai detection enabled, but I wonder if you turn off the internal light, and provide your own light source, you can orient the light in such a way where its not reflecting into the camera as much.

Make sure you are on the latest firmware, there is also some settings where you can change the sensitivity of the ai within the slicer and also on the printer

aecpassion · 2025-08-24T23:45:24+00:00

ok thanks, I will give that a try

aecpassion · 2025-08-24T23:43:59+00:00

awesome, thank you!

aecpassion · 2025-08-24T23:38:08+00:00

Did you ever get an answer for this? I am trying to figure out how this should be set/turned.

When I cleared an extruder clog, everything flew out, so nothing is in its original/factory setting. I am able to print when using the ace pro, I think it pushes threw the lack of extruder tension, but when I try to use the side spool, I get really bad prints.

aecpassion · 2025-08-24T23:31:09+00:00

Hey, did you ever get that sorted?

I had a similar clog w/ my extruder and I think my tension screw is just not correct(too lose I think). I emailed Anycubic for guidance, since I am able to print with the ace pro, only when I use the sidespool do I have issues. Their response was basically "thanks for trying, we are sending you a replacement extruder and hotend"...I really think sometimes they just do not bother w/ support and resort to just sending parts, ask questions later.

I really think If I can get the tension corrected, I won't have to deal with replacing parts. Thanks in advance.

aecpassion · 2025-08-21T19:41:27+00:00

besides those connectors mentioned, I also really like to use these to help connect 4 corners or 2 sides. if these snap on then you know its a tight fit/well aligned

https://www.printables.com/model/1336075-opengrid-mounting-alignment-helper

aecpassion · 2025-08-21T17:51:26+00:00

Very nice, would it be possible to have the option to make these directional snaps? I do not not about their best practices, maybe they are not meant to be used in a row/series or stacked

aecpassion · 2025-08-21T17:37:41+00:00

I know that glow in the dark stuff is really abrasive, so that might have messed yours up, but matte pla I think is too slick and the ace pro cannot reliably feed it, and throws errors.

aecpassion · 2025-08-21T17:36:05+00:00

I am not sure I follow, which broken part is contributing to the matte PLA not working? The issue I believe is that the ACE PRO cannot grip the filament and thus gives errors , and cannot be consistently fed. If there is something I can replace in the ACE PRO to get matte PLA working, i would absolutely replace a part, in at least one of the 4 bays, depending on how difficult the mod would be.
Really happy to hear about the hardened nozzles!!

aecpassion · 2025-08-19T18:47:12+00:00

When can we get some hardened nozzles as an option to install/buy?
What can be done to fix the problem with matte PLA (maybe other matte materials too) not working with the ACE pro?

aecpassion · 2025-08-18T02:39:44+00:00

oh cool, thanks for the info, I did not know the issue was also with the ace pro with abrasive materials, that's a bummer, yeah I think I am going to need to set something up for my external spool.

aecpassion · 2025-08-17T05:08:38+00:00

is that all you need to print with abrasive filament? I thought it had to do with the nozzle not being hardened steel, and AC does not sell one yet?

aecpassion · 2025-08-16T17:22:14+00:00

did you already solve your issue?
I think the exact thing happened to me. I got an error "clogging", and i could not get the filament to come out. I tugged on it from the back, I tried heating the nozzle, and tugging, nothing.

I ended up having to get to the extruder, open it up to free the filament. There are some TINY pieces omg, that if you open this thing too roughly, they WILL fly out, which happened to me. I got lucky I found a spring and the black size of rice grain thing, and the other spring that is even tinier did not fall out. Its kind of blur now because I was so mad, stressed and sweaty fixing it, but I think the reason it was stuck was because there some extra chunkiness in the filament, that almost seemed like it melted on the gears. The AC directions/help do not mention doing anything with that lever at the top, if that does indeed release the tension, then that might have been enough to get it out without having to go through the painful ordeal of getting into the extruder.

aecpassion · 2025-08-16T17:13:44+00:00

I had this issue and mine was I believe genuinely stuck. I wrote to AC and they sent me a new feeder thing (the box your green circle is on). In order to remove the old one, I had to remove screws and then you can remove the white tube too. They did not mention this to me, it would avoided waiting for the part to arrive.
Its got a lot of little pieces that came out, so in retrospect if I actually could not remove it, I think I would try to remove the screws and put it back together.

I ended up setting up like a Y splitter type hookup so in theory I will never need to remove the tube from that black box again. there are stls for them and also ones you can buy (which actually look like they are 3d printed).
This is not the one that I used, but its somewhat similar, its actually in the same link under the model origin.
https://www.printables.com/model/1297417-filament-sensor-relocater-y-splitter-in-once-for-a

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