Preface: I’m on my third cheap printer in the past ten years. I bought an Anycubic kobra neo a few years ago. I told myself I wouldn’t mess with doing anything to it, but I was running into issues because of low quality control. I put it away due to frustration for the past year and now needed to print something and just figuring out all the issues. Right now I’m looking into upgrading the part cooling fan as I cannot get rid of stringing even on low temps with PLA. I should just buy a good printer but I just don’t feel like I can justify it.
I heavily modified my Ender 3 pro, after breaking it for the last time I said fuck it and I’m getting a printer with all the features I want built in and not fucking with it. I’m perfectly content with my Ender 3 S1 pro. Auto bed leveling and direct drive are pretty much the only things I want, and it’s got them and was cheap.
Now the only thing I modify is my gcode.
That was my thought process with the Kobra Neo.
The bed was so out of whack that I added adjustment wheels (it had solid spacers) and I upgraded the firmware to a modified one that added a couple of qol features. Now I’m realizing that the part cooling fan is just not big enough to keep up especially with the duct they put on there. If it weren’t for all the stringing then my prints would look good. Then of course there are other common issues people had with these with the bed wires breaking.