Yeah, the noise of the K2 seems to be a common complaint. But placed in a different room, if you have one, would solve much of that. Nor do I know what user hacks have been developed to mitigate the noise. Still, there seem to be more users that like their K1 than not. Crealty, if nothing else is almost a tinker’s dream machine. The installed user base is very active and highly talented. Crealty might not care much about their users, but they ain’t stopping anyone from modifying their machines. If you can dream up a hack, someone somewhere has probably already done it. I would almost bet there is an Ender 3 somewhere that has been rebuilt into a bread machine. :)
Qidi also gets dinged in reviews for fan noise. But if you have a printer that has active chamber heating, you are going to get a rather large fan to pull air into and exhaust air out to help control temperature. That’s the price you pay to print nylon filament I suppose. Qidi’s after sales support gets decent marks from users also. They seem to be pretty responsive to customer issues. Personally, I place high value on support. It’s worth more than the color of the paint and the badge glued to the machine. Being involved in million of dollars in industrial machine purchases over the years, I’ve learned that the hard way. Print quality seems to be considered average at the worst. Oddly, there are few reviews on line and no one seems to test the high end engineering filament printing ability. I think to really understand what the issues are you probably need to hang out in reddit’s r/Qidi for a while to gather a good sample. I did and while users had issues, they seem to get resolved and people could get on with their printing. I’m kind of wishing now I had bought the little X-Smart3 rather than the Bambu Mini.
Yeah, the noise of the K2 seems to be a common complaint. But placed in a different room, if you have one, would solve much of that. Nor do I know what user hacks have been developed to mitigate the noise. Still, there seem to be more users that like their K1 than not. Crealty, if nothing else is almost a tinker’s dream machine. The installed user base is very active and highly talented. Crealty might not care much about their users, but they ain’t stopping anyone from modifying their machines. If you can dream up a hack, someone somewhere has probably already done it. I would almost bet there is an Ender 3 somewhere that has been rebuilt into a bread machine. :)
Qidi also gets dinged in reviews for fan noise. But if you have a printer that has active chamber heating, you are going to get a rather large fan to pull air into and exhaust air out to help control temperature. That’s the price you pay to print nylon filament I suppose. Qidi’s after sales support gets decent marks from users also. They seem to be pretty responsive to customer issues. Personally, I place high value on support. It’s worth more than the color of the paint and the badge glued to the machine. Being involved in million of dollars in industrial machine purchases over the years, I’ve learned that the hard way. Print quality seems to be considered average at the worst. Oddly, there are few reviews on line and no one seems to test the high end engineering filament printing ability. I think to really understand what the issues are you probably need to hang out in reddit’s r/Qidi for a while to gather a good sample. I did and while users had issues, they seem to get resolved and people could get on with their printing. I’m kind of wishing now I had bought the little X-Smart3 rather than the Bambu Mini.