Hey everyone,

I just grabbed an AnyCubic 4Max Pro for insanely cheap. I had to swap out the hot end, it was bent. It seems the last owner had the Z limit switch incorrectly set so it was crashing.

So far it’s printing fairly well. I need to do all the calibration and such, but for ‘out of the box’ it seems to be alright.

I’ve been reading up on the hardware itself and it seems to be fairly crippled due to the board AnyCubic used. An 8 bit board based on the Arduino Mega. I’ve see lots of pre-conpiled firmware for Marlin 2.0.x but they’re usually filled with even more bugs than they solved. The board is called TriGorilla? Honestly I’m use to BTT and Crealitys boards.

Has anyone done a board swap on this? I saw the LCD is a hack job by AnyCubic since Marlin, maybe at the time?, Didn’t support DWIN touch screens. I’d like to keep the stepper drivers, so maybe a board that has removable?

Thanks Henry

  • NiyaShy
    2•1 year ago

    If anycubic did anything similar to what they did on the i3 Mega-S (that I have) on the 4Max, the touchscreen most likely has its own firmware and you need special modifications in marlin so it can still “talk” with the screen.

    Yes, the TriGorilla boards aren’t powerhouses and don’t have enough “oomph” for the newest fancy features like input shaping, but they work. I’ve updated my printer to a community-made Marlin 1.1.9 release, and it works fine in conjunction with an OctoPrint Raspi.

    • @henry_rowengartnerOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Yeah I figured the screen was just tx ing M commands to marlin, same as most I suppose.

      Can you link to which firmware you’re using? There are so many floating around. I do plan on setting up an ESP3D like all my other printers to link my octoprint server, it’s running ~6 containers for each printer communicating via wifi and ESP3D.

      Thanks for the hope!

      Cheers Henry