Unboxing the Bambu Lab A1 Mini with AMS Lite Combo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2023
- Check out the unboxing process.
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Thank you so much for this! :D
While I wait for my preorder to ship I've watched a couple different unboxings but yours was by far the best, most thorough, and better helped to answer any lingering questions I still had. Well done. This will be my 1st 3D printer. I've been looking at getting the X1 Carbon for a little while now and then this came out and seemed tailor made for me to cut my teeth on first before I move up to anything bigger and better.
It seems like a very good beginner printer. And the price point is great. Thanks so much for watching!
Lucky! I get ours (my son's) in second preorder, around Nov 25th.
Glad to see you trying out all the diff printers! YOU GOT THE ENGINE!! and w Bambu.. you lift w the bag tabs! You got it though!
Thanks so much! I'm sure you'll love it!
Looks like a nice little printer. You should have fun with it.
Thank you!
I got mine and I love it ! I hope you like it
Good to know! Thanks!
Oh look at the print bed, with what I print I have a hard time fitting parts for my current "Block Aide Runner" to fit parts on that. I should work great for doll house things you print.
Yes most of my items are just a couple of inches. Thanks!
That's awesome
dont expect to get that engine kit with your printer, they only put that in the box for reviewers
Bambu doesn't know I exist. Anything I get is random like everyone else. Thanks!
I'm not a fan of this machine but the color samples included is a really good marketing move by Bambulab guys
I’m actually interested to know what entry level machine you are a fan of then…
@stevekorzeniewski6895 they said the ender 3 beats any bambu or prusa anyday. Thier ender is "just as good" as that piece of shit.
@@luke8874 you’re clearly just a hater…move along.
@@luke8874 good joke lol
I guess the filament holder on the back is unnecessary if you have the AMS station?
Yes. It's either AMS or the single on the back. Thanks!
Another printer! Cool! But its slowly turning into hording 😆
Haha I don't mind having a large quantity of printers. But the multiple types are starting to be too much. I'm running three different types of slicers. 🤦♀️
Strange...I ordered mine and there's still no ETA...even worse is the fact that I also have an order of PETG that is also stuck with no ETA. Bambu won't even look into this for 3 full business days....Kinda Lame. Glad to see SOMEBODY get theirs tho, I gotta admit that I'm a bit worried about my order after seeing people getting theirs already. Mine was ordered by 8:03 on the 16th so I'm nervous to say the least....
Are you from the first batch or 2nd? Most of these people getting theirs are all from the first batch.
@@KryaDiere not sure…my order was in three minutes after preorders started
It sounds like you might be on the second batch. I ordered mine on September 20th. I'm sure you'll get it soon. Thanks!
Here in Europe pre-sale started October the 16th. Delivery can take up to November 30th. So sadly I have to wait. Also I definitly need an enclosure, as winter is coming and I only heat my rooms up to 12°C (wich is fine for myself, but my printers do not like it). Actually the formfactor of the A1 with AMS light does not seem optimal for an enclosure...
However, I would realy like a comparison of the waste an A1+AMS light produced compared to the mk4+MMU3. I noticed on my mk4 the unloaded filament has a very nice tip. So a MMU3 should work reliable, even without cutting inside the hotend (at least if filament is well dryed). So without cut&poo the mk4 + MMU3 should produce less waste and change filament faster. Sadly the MMU3 upgrade has an estimated delivery time of 6 weeks, so I will also have to wait until end of november ;-(
Also wipe2infill and wipe2object could reduce waste by a lot on the mk4+MMU3.
I am not totally sure the approach Bambulab uses is the right choice for multi-colour PLA. However, for PLA support interface layers on PETG-prints, cut&poo seems to be the right way to do it, as it avoids any contermination with the wrong material and PETG is a bit more stringy anyways. However the increase of printing time due to the cut&poo is insane.
There has to be a solution between the very slow filament change on the AMS/AMS light and the very expensive toolchanger solutions. For example instead of cut&poo disengaging the extruders feeder on unload, pulling the filament out by the AMS feeder - so the still weak filament tip is not sqeezed by the extruder gears on unload. This could be done much faster than cut&poo. Also, as every filament has it's own feeder wich could move filament independently, the unloaded filament could be cut at the tip outside while the next filament already is loaded and prints.
Imho, while the AMS and cut&poo is a big improvement to the old mk3 (with v6-hotend) and MMU2 solution, which needed a lot of finetuning ramping profiles, I am pretty sure there are ways to improve the filament change process even more - by a lot.
Bambulabs closed source way is quite a downside. The AMS/AMS-light hardware is quite nice; esp synchronizing the feeders between AMS and extruder. But tinkering would require replacing the whole electronics of the AMS (wich is beyond my skills). Combining the AMS light, external filament cutters, the Hub/buffer on top of the A1 and a mk4, reducing filament changing time to less than 30 sec would be so nice...
Maybe you could look into making your own version? I agree that the Bambu process with the squiggles seems wasteful. But so far, it seems to be a pretty quick process. Also, I am having a terrible time getting my MMU3 to work. I cancelled some of my MMU3s for the MK4 because I didn't figure they'd be any better. But that's an interesting point you make about the MK4 having a cleaner point when it unloads. That might make all the difference. Thanks!
I bought an MMU2 shortly after release, about 5 years ago. However, due to the many troubles reported on forums and on TH-cam I never used it. The main issue always was the filament tip after unload.
However, after the Revo hotend was released many people actually reported a massive improvement in reliability of the MMU2 due to the massive improved filament tip. Even the SmartMultiFilamentFeeder (SMuFF) project, wich uses filament cutting inside the extruder for quite some time now, stated the cut&poo might be not nessasary if using the Revo.
While I actually (despite my limited design and programing skills) plan to design my own filament changer, my first step is to try MMU2 and ERCF with Revo theese Xmas hollydays.
While the Revo isn't cheap, Trianglelabs TUN actually uses the same integrated Nozzle/heatbreak solution and is available on sales on AliExpress for about $40. So at Xmas I also plan to upgrade one of my mk3's to a TUN, to see if the MMU2 can become reliable this way. As it is practicly a cheap drop-in replacement for the v6, not much tinkering is required.
For making my own filament changer: For next summer I plan to create a stand-alone two filament changer. As said I do not have much design and programming skills. However I have a lot of Fischertechnik, a very advanced construction toy here in Germany (and quite pricy). The controllers actually are programmed by a flow-diagram. Also they have encoder motors, so it should be easy to synchronise a feeder with encoder motor with the extruder the same way Bambulab does. As you also can do a controlled number of rotations with an encoder motor and you can controll servos in Fischertechnik, also external tip cutting should be no problem.
However, the main reason I want to build this isn't filament changing, but reducing the load for the extruder. The most faszinating aspect of the Bambulab printers is deviding the load between AMS feeder and extruder. The AMS feeder pulls the filament from the spool and pushes it to the extruder gears. If the extruder does not need it at the moment, the spring inside the hub/buffer is compressed and the AMSfeeder stops. Imho this is the most underestimated feature of the Bambulab printers. It totaly removes the need for the extruder to actually pull the filament, it only has to push it through the nozzle.
The A1 extuder uses a Nema11(!)...
As I have sometimes underextrusion printing from a drybox, I definitly want to reconstruct that solution, removing all the load of pulling filament from the extruder (also allowing bigger spools).
If that works, an own filament changer (with external cutter to trim the tip) would be the next step.
For the prints you show in your videos, the number of filament changes is not very high. So cut&poo is a good solution. However I wondered why you used the MMU3 on mk3s, as the long known issue on the mk3's is the bad filament tip after unload, not the MMU itself.
I will report my results with mmu3@mk4, mmu2@mk3_with_revo and mmu2@mk3_with_tun in January. Esp. if the (relativly cheap) TUN solves the problems, this might be helpfull on your mk3's, as this is quite an easy change.
“There is an unboxing tutorial, that I’m not watching”. So I can make this a doubly difficult experience. Smh…