Question: If you have tried a dodgy dual input hotend, what were your experiences?
Background: As with anyone else who have a single extruder, I’ve been contemplating upgrading to something with a bit more flexibility. But the idea of getting a whole new printer doesn’t appeal as much to my wallet, as it does to my mind :-)
Scouring aliexpress for weird filaments with the mrs - you know, normal Saturday-evening-and-the-kids-are-sleeping couple activities - we fell upon a dual input hotend for creality cr10. It looks an awful lot like the hotend we have, and it comes with either 24v or 12v heater. It’s only about 15€ so I might just give it a try, but it’s pretty stupid when I don’t even have a plan for an extra extruder as well. And I don’t know how I would go about wiring that part up on my cr6 at the moment.
Not anymore. Creality K2 plus has multicolor, works great.
And the Qidi I-Fast, and the Prusa XL.
Prusa XL has multiple print heads which is even better
Sure, only gotta cough up $5k! LOL - Only a whole ORDER of magnitude more expensive! That’s all!
I can’t find the qidi for sale in a Danish store, but the prusa xl is 3x the price of the creality K2 plus. Hardly a fair comparison.
The prusa is 10X the machine the Creality is. It’s a buy once, cry once purchase.
I love jo, and wish him the best, but sorry - they aren’t 10x the machine the Creality is any longer. They’ve fallen so far and Creality has really upped their game as of late.
and the Anycubic Kobra combo, only one I know of with a heated filament dryer inside the MMU