No More Noise! How to Make your 3D Printers quiet (Ender 3 and Anycubic Chiron)
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Hi everyone!
It's been a while since I uploaded something, and in that time I gathered a few more 3D printers for my projects. The only problem was that they were all annoyingly loud. So to keep my sanity I made this video in which I silence two of them - Creality Ender 3 and Anycubic Chiron.
After the modifications from the video they're noise level went from around 40dB to 15dB which is a major improvement. They can still be heard but it's just a very delicate fan humm. The motors are dead silent and as I said in the video I sometimes forget they are even on. If you want to make your printer even quieter I would recommend getting higher quality fans like noctua, adding some foam under the printer or making an enclosure to absorb the rest of the noise. It's also a good idea to limit max speed and acceleration with Gcode to avoid any sudden axis noises.
Important disclaimer
I am not responsible for any damage that you may do to your printers. In this video I work on open power supplies which can be dangerous to both you and the hardware so make sure you unplug everything before proceeding. Also power supplies have fans for a reason and you gotta keep in mind that changing it for a quieter (usually less powerful) fan may cause the PSU to get hotter and potentially create a fire hazard. My power supplies work perfectly fine after modifications but if you use a lot of power/your printer works in an enclosure/your power supply already runs hot you should think twice about changing the fan. Keep in mind that buck converters or as in my case voltage regulators(especially they) create heat as well. Also as said in the video each printer and motherboard have different connections and capabilities so just make sure you know what you are doing.
Now with that out of the way here are the parts I used:
-TMC2209 drivers
-SilentiumPC Zephyr Fans 40/50/60
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-Step down converter / Voltage regulator 24V to 12V
-Anycubic Chiron feet - www.thingivers...
-Creality Ender 3 feet - www.thingivers...
-Quick tool change for Ender 3 - www.thingivers...
Your phone isn't recording that noise correctly they are in the range of 65/70dbs & after reduction around 40dbs
hey, idk are u still here but, instead of some kind of converter to use just a resistor? im not an electronic engeener but ist just seem simple enougth to dropout a voltage (3:50)
Your current adjust of the new drivers are wrong.
On ender 3 the loudest fan is the front fan of extruder.
If you stop it by hand, there is almost complete silence.
Thanks for telling me about silentiumpc fans. I will order some. I have lots to print and can't sleep in all that noise. I also ordered silent motherboard 4.2.7
the reason it goes silent is that the motherboard fan is connected to the part cooling fan, meaning if the part cooling is off the motherboard fan is off
He uses a third party motherboard so it could be controlled, if you use 4.2.2/4.2.7 MB and connect the stock way then the hotend and MB fan will run 24/7 while the printer is on.
The only issue with using a 7812 linear regulator to drop 24v to 12 is that it will run hot.
Great tips thank you , I fitted stepper motor dampers and that was a fantastic and cheap way to get sleep at night !!
These noise meterings are kind of suspicious. I'm also facing problem with loud 3d printer (ender 3), so I bought myself noise meter (cheap one). Meters of this quality usually cannot register anything below 30 dBA. To achieve this level I have to shut all windows and sit inside a room where nothing is turned on. So 19 dBA does not seem realistic. Ender 3 with Noctua fans gave me like 30-35 dBA which is really quiet. But I used 120mm fans for the motherboard and PSU and 40mm for the print head. And it was actually not enought, print head started to jam because of overheat.
Well I was using a smartphone app for the measurements so they probably weren't very precise. I was recording in a closed room with only the printers turned on at a distance of about a half a meter. All I can say is that the upgrades made a night and day difference, I can't really hear the Ender printing when I am using a computer in the same room.
As for the jamming issue I didn't have such a problem, but now when I switched to Klipper for faster printing I must admit the under-nozzle cooling is severely underpowered and my parts do suffer from overheating. I am considering switching to double 24V 5015 blower fans and running them undervolted at around 12V, since they are much quieter that way and still blow a lot of air.
@@BasementCreationsChannel I switched to creality sprite and already bought one 5015 (but not mounted yet) because stock fan is also noisy.
How did you change the stepper motor in the code. Where is this code for Anycubic chiron?
I didn't change printer code for the Anycubic, just replaced stepsticks and swapped wires. I did however changed code for my Ender 3 with Skr 1.3 board, there are many tutorial on what exactly you need to edit in marlin to make it work.
Hi, For the anycubic stepper motors, what cables did you swap, and what is the reason why we need to swap them? Thank you for the awesome video :D
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are you satisfied with this huge printing head and fans? makes prints better or what are the advantages?
Im currently using stock head and thinking about making it better
The printhead itself is quite small, it's just the 50mm fans that make it appear larger. These fans are large because they are PC fans designed to move air at a low noise level. Therefore, I later added a second 50mm fan on the other side to improve cooling. Overall, they are not better at cooling than the stock Ender 3 fans, but they are definitely quieter, which is the main purpose.
So your circuit works, yes you can step down 24V to 12V with voltage regulator, but you are wasting half of the energy.
Normally you step down from 24V to say 13V or 14V with a buck converter and then use a voltage regulator to get a nice signal.
Bro built a whole 3D printer
Hello my friend. I've looked at many designs and really yours looks great. I'm also making a lot of changes to my Chiron. like tmc2209.-fans-vs. this printer is very good but it has too much sound. Now I decided to direct drive system. this is my question Have you had any problems with this upgrade?
Well the things that were a bit problematic is figuring the wire connections leading to the hotend. Also tool changing with this new system requires you to remove the cable chain. Other than that it works great and it's remarkably quiet.
@@BasementCreationsChannel Thanks for information. I've looked at your files but I don't see the hot end holder? can you check them please ?
step file is slightly different from video
or is it the same but enough for the hot end block to stay there?
The original extruder is a part that holds the hotend. To assemble it you need to remove the top extruder cover and screw the rest to the 3D printed part
impressive
power supply fan is now backwards
Dude, the easiest way is to just buy a 24v fan….
Yes, but also a 24v fan would run louder than a 12v fan. The point of the video was to reduce noise as much as possible.
@@imjustwolf 24v fans can and often do have the exact same specs (and noise output) as their 12v and 5v counterparts, just a different input voltage. Just look at Noctua's specs for their variations. An aftermarket 24v fan is very likely to be leagues more silent than the stock 24v fan, and putting a 12v fan onto a 3d printer which outputs 24v would obviously cause issues (and be incredibly loud if it works at all).
@@nepvee He used a buck converter...
@@vukasinvozarevic How is that related to the point someone was trying to make that a 24v fan would be louder than 12v?
@@nepvee It isn't. It's an answer to " putting a 12v fan onto a 3d printer which outputs 24v would obviously cause issues (and be incredibly loud if it works at all)." There won't be any problems because his buck converter converts 24V into 12V.
24V fans are louder than 12V ones, that's true, but always check specs so you know for sure because they're all different.
You can also make 24V fans quieter and longer lasting by running them on 12V but they move less air.
Also you can make 12V fans move more air by running them on 24V, but their life would be decreased.
Please as a member of the 1%, we need all the details.
What details exactly do you need?
After a buck convertor don't expect PWM to work ..
Good point, but it still works anyway
replacing a "loud" 24v fan with a "quiet" 12v fan in your power supply is the kind of thing you need to actually test thermals for
it was loud because it was moving a lot of air, and now you are not
Yes you are right, that's why I wrote long disclaimer in the description. Hovewer the fans were also loud becaouse of poor quality and overvoltage. In my case thermals were ok in both printers but for some machines with hot PSUs changing fans might be a bad idea.
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