You can find the BLtouch / CRtouch firmware for the Ender 7 here: embracemaking.com/products/creality-ender-7-bondtech-lgx-lite-mosquito-magnum-hot-end-kit Scroll to the bottom of the listing to find the download link.
Hi Chris, congratulations on the video. Very detailed yet simple and clear. Work on the Marlin firmware already started. Soon the 300C thermistor and 50W heater will be supported. Keep up the great work.
I bought an Ender 7 because it was such a good deal on Amazon. Really looking forward to your Klipper install as I will probably be following along. Keep up the great videos! One piece of constructive criticism though. If you could improve your lighting and possibly your camera I think your videos would be even better! The production quality is great just a little grainy and dim.
Thanks for pointing that out! You're right, some really good prices on these printers on Amazon right now... might have to get another... As for the video quality, check out some of my recent videos. Embarrassingly, for some of the videos I shot around this time period I had my camera set to the wrong ISO settings etc so the quality was grainy. I've since invested in more lighting and fixed my camera settings so they should appear much better now. Let me know if you agree!
I have the ENDER - 7 for a week now, and havent had any issue at the moment building quite big model, like a full skull one to one size, and full human's face model. The only problem is that we can only print in PLA and PETG. I would like to see an upgrade in firmware for being able raise the temperature on both bed and nozzle, to print other materials, like ABS, PC, CARBON, even in Nylon. Carbon. Please keep up the good work, hopefully you may have better info regarding the firmware upgrade. I think most of us are waiting from you to announce it and help all of the ENDER - 7 users to get all those nice ugrades. But firts the firmware is the most important one.
Klipper is in the works, there are some configs floating around online for the Ender 7 now but I will do a video soon where I can confirm that one works and a walk through on how to get it working on the ender7
Nice and clear explanations. I like the way the wires are held in place. What would be the full weight of the extruder and parts in this configuration compare to the original setup? Keep up those great tutorials.
Thank you! I should have measured the weight but unfortunately did not. It will obviously be heavier due to the stepper motor / direct drive set up, but fortunately the LGX lite with small pancake motor is one of the lighter ones on the market. If I had to estimate, it probably only increased with the weight of the LGX which is 141g. The rest of the hotend and new fan shroud etc are more or less the same as the original equipment. By the way, your hot end system looks super interesting! I would love to learn more about it!
@@EmbraceMaking thanks for your reply. Well as you have probably seen on my website, it's a new approach on thermal efficiency with tapered nozzles. I'm waiting for a few parts to bring even higher flow with longer nozzles. Early July I hope.
Outstanding Video, covers all the bases and makes me very confident. The parts you show at the end look so good I can see my train parts would be so much nicer than off my 10S Pro. But I am worried I will not dial it in as good as you can. Can you print parts for others? How can I get quotes? I am drowning with a new release that has taken off. Printing 6 hours a day is hard on me and my printer has a failure yesterday and I lost 4 hours. Thinking this Ender 7 may be a good production printer and keep my 10S Pro for R&D. You videos and knowledge are excellent! Thank You, Dennis
Hi. I own this printer for some 3 months now. I successfully ported this to Klipper and it's doing amazing prints. However, I am eagerly waiting for your version of Klipper port just to find the things I missed or can improve. One request from me is, can you do some mods on your printed parts to fit Phateus Dragon HF hotend? I own this but I cannot make a good mount to use this on Ender 7. Thanks.
Thanks Ram, I can look into fitting the Phateus Dragon HF, I know it is pretty popular. I'm working on Klipper soon and I'm going to have some amazing help it seems! Details coming soon, I hope you have subscribed ;)
i had a phaethus dragon HF but sadly it doesnt work that consistenly with the machine, i wen through two of them before giving up and switching for the Mosquito
would it be possible that you could take pictures of switches on those X-Y Microstep DM 542 Drivers and do you know if there has been changes inside regarding CCW/CW J2 jumper
Just made my own customized version of your adapter for the Ender 7 since I want to keep my Bowden set up, and I wanted to ask, what are the "fins" behind the hotend for? I ended up removing them to make the whole thing even lighter
The angled fins are an attempt to try and divert the fan air flow slightly upwards and through that rear "window" away from the heater block ... whether or not they actually do anything is hard to prove. I actually removed them recently as well in the parts that I have been selling because I felt like they were unnecessary. Have you uploaded your design to Printables? I would love to have yours listed as a "remix" to my design on there!
@@EmbraceMaking well, the main reason to not upload it is that I made it specifically for my configuration of Cr-Touch and to fit my custom Teflon tube holder (the default ones are threaded, I got one with holes to screw it to the Mosquito)
Hi. Is this design compatible with bl touch?? I really want to print this and install it on my ender 7 but i only have a bl touch. I also want to say that what you are doing is amazing! Thanks.
Yes, it is BL touch and CR touch should have the same mounting pattern. I haven't checked the overall height or probe length but I think they are pretty close... you can definitely mount it and the probe should deploy far enough to go past the nozzle :)
Hi Jason, I designed an adapter for the Spider but that is one that I sell through my website in the form of pre-printed parts (Carbon Fiber PETG) unlike how I released the Mosquito Magnum files for free. If you're interested, check out Embracemaking.com and check under the Ender 7 listings for the Spider adapter
Is the klipper video still coming or have you abandoned that plan? Been looking for a guide but only found a couple of githubs, but no real guides. Ive duplicated your build and this machine is almost perfect now, just need klipper.
I got side tracked with some other projects. I actually bought a second Ender 7 to use as another development platform since the first one has been tied up with production. I will get to it :)
@@EmbraceMaking Hopefully soon! Awesome video. Great work and thank you for helping pave the way for the Ender 7 (and not writing it off just because it didn't work perfectly out of the box). I just ordered one and look forward to implementing some of these upgrades, especially Klipper.
DO you think you can do a mount for the stock creality hotends its uses the same as the dragon fly bms my favorite hotend not a super fast one but I dig it.
I've printed all of the files, but I can't find the mounting plate for the Creality Spider hotend. The only file I could find on Printables is for the Mosquito.
I thought about replacing the whole plate but figured it was easier and quicker to do it this way. Plus the existing metal plate is very stiff, but yes it weighs more. If you replace the plate you have to undo the belts and retension the belt system... so at least for this method it should be less complex!
i finally finish my version with a custom mountplate and works excellent, thanks for the tips and the motivation, i probably won't do it without your content
Where does the 0.9V vref value come from? I left mine at the stock 1.25V and the motor doesn't get hot at all, it could take more I guess. Do you know what current 0.9V corresponds to? I couldn't find info for the Ender7 board resistor values.
There is a calculation online that associates the VREF with the current output of the driver. The LGX lite has a lower current rating than the regular steppers (especially the extra large one on the Ender 7 bowder extruder). 0.9V was the result of the calculation based on Bondtech's max allowable current for the LGX lite pancake motor. If your motor isn't getting hot then I guess you should be fine. Mine was getting hot at 0,9V but I've put a few hundred hours on it so far without issue.
Open a text editor and enter the following: M92 E562 ; Set E Steps to 562 M500 ; Store Settings Then save it as any file name you want but instead of .txt make it .gcode and put it on an SD card and just run it on your printer as if you were running a .gcode file for a print. That's it :)
apparently it does. perfectly! i just needed to flip the hotend so the wires are on the right and replaced the tube fitting with the older one and cut off the plastic top part so it would fit.
no additional parts. your lgx mount and fan shroud are perfect fit! i just needed to trim the part in lgx mount where the tubbe fitting touches so it would fit. you can check out my post at my 3D Printing Community PH fb group.
@@rannski Thanks for following up! Unfortunately I don't have facebook... are you on Printables, I'm assuming that is where you downloaded the files. Can you post a "remix" on my Printables page? would really, really appreciate it!
Hi, any chance of getting the files for the Spider Pro version of this bracket? I'm happy to pay for them, it's just importing to UK when them exspensive and i'd like them printing in Nylon or ABS.
@@EmbraceMaking Thanks a lot! I'am converting my Ender 7 to DD using Orbiter V2, i am done most of mechanical work already and now start to tune e-steps and stepper current.
Not designing the hotend shroud to accommodate a better fan like: A brushless blower style part-cooling fans and a Noctua extruder fan, is a deal breaker for me. As the cooling of those stock Creality fans is just horrible. Although I have no statistics, but I have a strong feeling that this is the bottleneck of this performance upgrade.
DONT BUY CREALITY PRODUCTS, THEY HAVE THE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE AS WELL AS THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU UNLESS YOU SEND THEM VIDEOS AND PICTURES AND A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF, WHEN YOU DO THEY STILL DONT FOX THE ISSUE. WORST COMPANY EVER
You can find the BLtouch / CRtouch firmware for the Ender 7 here:
embracemaking.com/products/creality-ender-7-bondtech-lgx-lite-mosquito-magnum-hot-end-kit
Scroll to the bottom of the listing to find the download link.
Hello from Germany, is it possible top mount another Hotend with your designed Hotend-mount? Like a Phateus Dragonfly BMS?
Hi Chris, congratulations on the video. Very detailed yet simple and clear. Work on the Marlin firmware already started. Soon the 300C thermistor and 50W heater will be supported. Keep up the great work.
Thank you very much! I'm sure there will be lots of people who will find the new firmware extremely helpful!
This is great news!
has the new firmware been released? I am getting ready to do this upgrade.
I bought an Ender 7 because it was such a good deal on Amazon. Really looking forward to your Klipper install as I will probably be following along. Keep up the great videos! One piece of constructive criticism though. If you could improve your lighting and possibly your camera I think your videos would be even better! The production quality is great just a little grainy and dim.
Thanks for pointing that out! You're right, some really good prices on these printers on Amazon right now... might have to get another... As for the video quality, check out some of my recent videos. Embarrassingly, for some of the videos I shot around this time period I had my camera set to the wrong ISO settings etc so the quality was grainy. I've since invested in more lighting and fixed my camera settings so they should appear much better now. Let me know if you agree!
@@EmbraceMaking Dude you're right. I just discovered your channel so I hadn't watched any of your most recent stuff. Looks really good now!
Thank you! Trying to improve with every video!
I have the ENDER - 7 for a week now, and havent had any issue at the moment building quite big model, like a full skull one to one size, and full human's face model. The only problem is that we can only print in PLA and PETG. I would like to see an upgrade in firmware for being able raise the temperature on both bed and nozzle, to print other materials, like ABS, PC, CARBON, even in Nylon. Carbon. Please keep up the good work, hopefully you may have better info regarding the firmware upgrade. I think most of us are waiting from you to announce it and help all of the ENDER - 7 users to get all those nice ugrades. But firts the firmware is the most important one.
Klipper is in the works, there are some configs floating around online for the Ender 7 now but I will do a video soon where I can confirm that one works and a walk through on how to get it working on the ender7
@@EmbraceMaking looking forward to the next video.
Nice video and nice design!
Thank you so much! Really appreciate you leaving a comment
Nice and clear explanations.
I like the way the wires are held in place.
What would be the full weight of the extruder and parts in this configuration compare to the original setup?
Keep up those great tutorials.
Thank you! I should have measured the weight but unfortunately did not. It will obviously be heavier due to the stepper motor / direct drive set up, but fortunately the LGX lite with small pancake motor is one of the lighter ones on the market. If I had to estimate, it probably only increased with the weight of the LGX which is 141g. The rest of the hotend and new fan shroud etc are more or less the same as the original equipment. By the way, your hot end system looks super interesting! I would love to learn more about it!
@@EmbraceMaking thanks for your reply.
Well as you have probably seen on my website, it's a new approach on thermal efficiency with tapered nozzles. I'm waiting for a few parts to bring even higher flow with longer nozzles. Early July I hope.
Hey! Amazing video! How are things with klipper going? Can't wait for the video!
Coming soon! SO many projects on the go right now but that is up there on the priority list!
@@EmbraceMaking How's that Klipper transition going?
Outstanding Video, covers all the bases and makes me very confident. The parts you show at the end look so good I can see my train parts would be so much nicer than off my 10S Pro. But I am worried I will not dial it in as good as you can. Can you print parts for others? How can I get quotes? I am drowning with a new release that has taken off. Printing 6 hours a day is hard on me and my printer has a failure yesterday and I lost 4 hours. Thinking this Ender 7 may be a good production printer and keep my 10S Pro for R&D. You videos and knowledge are excellent! Thank You, Dennis
Hi. I own this printer for some 3 months now. I successfully ported this to Klipper and it's doing amazing prints. However, I am eagerly waiting for your version of Klipper port just to find the things I missed or can improve. One request from me is, can you do some mods on your printed parts to fit Phateus Dragon HF hotend? I own this but I cannot make a good mount to use this on Ender 7. Thanks.
Thanks Ram, I can look into fitting the Phateus Dragon HF, I know it is pretty popular. I'm working on Klipper soon and I'm going to have some amazing help it seems! Details coming soon, I hope you have subscribed ;)
i had a phaethus dragon HF but sadly it doesnt work that consistenly with the machine, i wen through two of them before giving up and switching for the Mosquito
@36:07 Have you tried Slice Engineering's Plastic Repellent Paint to prevent PETG sticking to the nozzle?
Unfortunately I have not but it does look very interesting
would it be possible that you could take pictures of switches on those X-Y Microstep DM 542 Drivers and do you know if there has been changes inside regarding CCW/CW J2 jumper
Just made my own customized version of your adapter for the Ender 7 since I want to keep my Bowden set up, and I wanted to ask, what are the "fins" behind the hotend for? I ended up removing them to make the whole thing even lighter
The angled fins are an attempt to try and divert the fan air flow slightly upwards and through that rear "window" away from the heater block ... whether or not they actually do anything is hard to prove. I actually removed them recently as well in the parts that I have been selling because I felt like they were unnecessary. Have you uploaded your design to Printables? I would love to have yours listed as a "remix" to my design on there!
@@EmbraceMaking well, the main reason to not upload it is that I made it specifically for my configuration of Cr-Touch and to fit my custom Teflon tube holder (the default ones are threaded, I got one with holes to screw it to the Mosquito)
Hi. Is this design compatible with bl touch?? I really want to print this and install it on my ender 7 but i only have a bl touch. I also want to say that what you are doing is amazing! Thanks.
Yes, it is BL touch and CR touch should have the same mounting pattern. I haven't checked the overall height or probe length but I think they are pretty close... you can definitely mount it and the probe should deploy far enough to go past the nozzle :)
great detail video however i have the spider hotend and i need the mount for it instead. Do you have the file for that?
Hi Jason, I designed an adapter for the Spider but that is one that I sell through my website in the form of pre-printed parts (Carbon Fiber PETG) unlike how I released the Mosquito Magnum files for free. If you're interested, check out Embracemaking.com and check under the Ender 7 listings for the Spider adapter
Is the klipper video still coming or have you abandoned that plan? Been looking for a guide but only found a couple of githubs, but no real guides. Ive duplicated your build and this machine is almost perfect now, just need klipper.
I got side tracked with some other projects. I actually bought a second Ender 7 to use as another development platform since the first one has been tied up with production. I will get to it :)
@@EmbraceMaking Hopefully soon! Awesome video. Great work and thank you for helping pave the way for the Ender 7 (and not writing it off just because it didn't work perfectly out of the box). I just ordered one and look forward to implementing some of these upgrades, especially Klipper.
When is the Klipper Video going to be released?
Sonic pad incoming
DO you think you can do a mount for the stock creality hotends its uses the same as the dragon fly bms my favorite hotend not a super fast one but I dig it.
Someone on printables remixed it.. I believe this is what you're looking for: www.printables.com/model/212717-lgxmount_rev4-remixed Let me know!
Also, check your email I just sent you an email to confirm your shipping address. Thanks!
@@EmbraceMaking Got it
I've printed all of the files, but I can't find the mounting plate for the Creality Spider hotend. The only file I could find on Printables is for the Mosquito.
it be too much replace the original mountplate to make room for the motor keep Y position of nozzle and reduce some grams?
I thought about replacing the whole plate but figured it was easier and quicker to do it this way. Plus the existing metal plate is very stiff, but yes it weighs more. If you replace the plate you have to undo the belts and retension the belt system... so at least for this method it should be less complex!
@@EmbraceMaking totally agree, i will try replaying the plate just for fun and tell you about it 👌
i finally finish my version with a custom mountplate and works excellent, thanks for the tips and the motivation, i probably won't do it without your content
Where does the 0.9V vref value come from? I left mine at the stock 1.25V and the motor doesn't get hot at all, it could take more I guess. Do you know what current 0.9V corresponds to? I couldn't find info for the Ender7 board resistor values.
There is a calculation online that associates the VREF with the current output of the driver. The LGX lite has a lower current rating than the regular steppers (especially the extra large one on the Ender 7 bowder extruder). 0.9V was the result of the calculation based on Bondtech's max allowable current for the LGX lite pancake motor. If your motor isn't getting hot then I guess you should be fine. Mine was getting hot at 0,9V but I've put a few hundred hours on it so far without issue.
Where is the file that sets the esteps?
lgxlite_estep562 mentioned in the video??
Open a text editor and enter the following:
M92 E562 ; Set E Steps to 562
M500 ; Store Settings
Then save it as any file name you want but instead of .txt make it .gcode and put it on an SD card and just run it on your printer as if you were running a .gcode file for a print. That's it :)
hi. can i use the lgx mount and fan shroud but still retain the stock hotend? i just wanted to utilize the lgx lite that i bought.
apparently it does. perfectly! i just needed to flip the hotend so the wires are on the right and replaced the tube fitting with the older one and cut off the plastic top part so it would fit.
Thanks for trying that out! Do you have discord or anything where you can share some pictures? Did you have to print any other custom parts?
no additional parts. your lgx mount and fan shroud are perfect fit! i just needed to trim the part in lgx mount where the tubbe fitting touches so it would fit. you can check out my post at my 3D Printing Community PH fb group.
@@rannski Thanks for following up! Unfortunately I don't have facebook... are you on Printables, I'm assuming that is where you downloaded the files. Can you post a "remix" on my Printables page? would really, really appreciate it!
will do!
Is it possible to use a dragonfly hotend instead of the mosquito hotend?
Do you know if the dragonfly hot end has the same mounting points as the ender 7 hotend?
Good reliable printer would you say since doing the upgrades?
Absolutely. I've been using it for production for many of the things I sell and the quality and repeatability has been excellent.
Hi, any chance of getting the files for the Spider Pro version of this bracket? I'm happy to pay for them, it's just importing to UK when them exspensive and i'd like them printing in Nylon or ABS.
Ein Installationsvideo für die Klipper Installation wäre echt mega hilfreich. Bei mir funktioniert es nicht
I accidently turned the top screw instead of the bottom one on the board to adjust the volts what is the top one supposed to be at for volts?
Hi Jason... not sure I would have to take my printer apart to find out for you.. did you get it sorted out?
I can't find file with code to change step per mm :(
Check here: www.printables.com/model/190248 scroll to the bottom of the description... just two lines of gcode :)
@@EmbraceMaking Thanks a lot! I'am converting my Ender 7 to DD using Orbiter V2, i am done most of mechanical work already and now start to tune e-steps and stepper current.
Best of luck!
The 3 link is all I need to install
Hi, are you asking if the links in the video description are everything you need to install this modification on your Ender 7?
@@EmbraceMakingyes
Not designing the hotend shroud to accommodate a better fan like: A brushless blower style part-cooling fans and a Noctua extruder fan, is a deal breaker for me. As the cooling of those stock Creality fans is just horrible. Although I have no statistics, but I have a strong feeling that this is the bottleneck of this performance upgrade.
Saw the thumbnail and read: "LGBTQ Mosquito Vaccum". Idk what I was expecting but I do enjoy a good 3D printer.
Ha! Kind of does look like that at a quick glance!
DONT BUY CREALITY PRODUCTS, THEY HAVE THE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE AS WELL AS THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU UNLESS YOU SEND THEM VIDEOS AND PICTURES AND A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF, WHEN YOU DO THEY STILL DONT FOX THE ISSUE. WORST COMPANY EVER