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!
and the Anycubic Kobra combo, only one I know of with a heated filament dryer inside the MMU
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.