The price is going to slay all Chinese crap makers. I always wanted mk3 but never had a big enough reason to buy, now I can justify it. It's the printer I will buy :)
It’s not. I bought an Creality Ender 3 recently for a lot less than that (152 GBP next day in UK) and the thing is perfect. It is also entirely open source.
1. They use crappy MOSFETs that are known to fail closed. This means you can get a runaway heat on your hotend. A 40w cartridge can melt the alu heatspreader
2. The beds are anemic for heating. Not enough power
3. Crappy steppers
4. No features for jam detection, autoleveling, skipped step protection, filament runout
5. "Chinese" quality: good luck in getting any sort of tech support. Once they have your money, you're fucked.
I'm fighting right now with Pine64 over defective eMMC modules that ignore the first read, causing initrd to fail to boot. Of course, they were chatty on Twitter prior to purchase, but have ignored every way of contact AFTER purchase. But pretty much every Chinese company is like this.
m0xte|6 years ago
https://github.com/Creality3DPrinting/Ender-3
Quality is pretty top notch. It worked out of the box flawlessly and with no futzing.
crankylinuxuser|6 years ago
1. They use crappy MOSFETs that are known to fail closed. This means you can get a runaway heat on your hotend. A 40w cartridge can melt the alu heatspreader
2. The beds are anemic for heating. Not enough power
3. Crappy steppers
4. No features for jam detection, autoleveling, skipped step protection, filament runout
5. "Chinese" quality: good luck in getting any sort of tech support. Once they have your money, you're fucked.
I'm fighting right now with Pine64 over defective eMMC modules that ignore the first read, causing initrd to fail to boot. Of course, they were chatty on Twitter prior to purchase, but have ignored every way of contact AFTER purchase. But pretty much every Chinese company is like this.