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Update: I bought extension cable for BLTouch - of course connectors didnt fit so I had to disassembly and mount fitting connectors, also I had to be careful which colour of cable to conenct where (I followed previous installation). Everything works. I didnt play with extension for Y axis yet, for now I managed to place control box to decent distance from the printer. I got help from fb group.

I would like to extend cables for Creality CR10 S5. I have extension cables but cable fo Y axis makes problem - priner fails when auto home. So I use it now without. But the original cable is too short. There is a challenge how to place controller - with filament on top, it is too tight. ALSO, there is a BLtouch installed and this has too short cable too! Can you help me how I can extend those cables - if there is a correct cable to buy and where (I am in Denmark, so EU shop would be best)? Also I am a little bit afraid to extend BLtouch cable, some people have video showing that the cables are switched and the printer will burn if I dont do it correctly. I have anyway multimeter so I can measure connectors, but anyway I am too careful because I cant afford purchase a new printer 🙂. And one more thing: I measured extension cable for Z axis and it is corerctly made, so correct pin connect, they are not crosswired or anything, but anyway it is a problem. Some people recommend to take cable out of the sleeve? Any guru here to help me? Katarina

Thanks for accepting me in the club :-). If I had to pay full price for this brand, I would think twice. But it is good to learn on this one. Pity I have also ASA filament but I didnt manage to heat the bed enough. Thinking about building some cabinet for it (if it will help). Last time it broke far away from extruder, it was cca 7cm from filament sensor. Another time it might be at the extruder because I had to pull quite a lot from bowden. It must be something with X speed and bowden bending and stretching. I am printing now another thing and so far it works. I lowered the travel speed.

Thank you again. Filament looks fine, at least no kinks. The problem might be with the travel speed by Cura. I will check that. The problem with this printer is that cables are too short and filament holder is on the controller box. If the printers head travels fast, maybe it pulls fast the filament and that cause its break. There is another issue with this printer, when I use extension cable for Y axis, the printer fails when auto home. So I dont use that. Then there is a limitation how I can place controller next to the printer. But despite of that, cables for BLtouch are short too and I need to open controller and use another, longer cables if I want to place controller further away. I didnt dare to do it yet :-). Do you know anything about those extension cables? I get no support from Creality

Hi Greg, thank you for advice. I am not using SD card. I control printer from Pronterface. I also try same print made by Creality 1.2.3 slicer and this prints always fine. There must be some parameter or something behind that Cura makes differently. I just tried to print another things and one time it printed whole thing, the other one snapped the filament again. I checked and it was broken cca 7cm from the sensor. I made slice with Creality slicer now and comparing - see attached files. The one with CCR1 is from Cura, the other one Creality. There is end gcode in both of them so this is not a problem. But in Creality there are commands for example ;TYPE:WALL-INNER G1 F3000 X222.070 Y208.776 E90.11341 G1 X291.224 Y277.930 E91.73980 G1 X277.930 Y291.224 E92.05246 G1 X208.776 Y222.070 E93.67885 G0 F4200 X208.210 Y222.070 ;TYPE:WALL-OUTER G1 F3000 X222.070 Y208.210 E94.00482 G1 X291.790 Y277.930 E95.64453 G1 X277.930 Y291.790 E95.97049 G1 X208.210 Y222.070 E97.61020 G0 F4200 X209.157 Y221.885 while in Cura there is ;TYPE:WALL-OUTER G1 F1500 X200.7 Y259.8 E101.65961 G1 X200.7 Y240.2 E102.01262 G1 X299.3 Y240.2 E103.78844 G1 X299.3 Y259.8 E104.14144 G0 F7500 X298.9 Y259.8 G0 X298.86 Y259.36 G0 X298.9 Y259.4 ;TYPE:WALL-INNER G1 F1500 X201.1 Y259.4 E105.99556 G1 X201.1 Y240.6 E106.35198 G1 X298.9 Y240.6 E108.2061 G1 X298.9 Y259.4 E108.56251 G0 F7500 X298.51 Y259.01 The difference is F3000 and F4200 from Creality and F1500 and F7500 from Cura, which I dont know what it means (I didnt learn the commands yet). There are 184 layers in Creality and 183 in Cura. It might be that the filemant is too old? I got it from person who doesnt want the printer any more, and it might be 2 years old. But it never fail when sliced by Creality, this is strange. I have it in basement, but I increased heat for nozzle to 210 degrees and bed to 75, and it is sticing fine. Actually there is no problem with first layers, only when it gets higher, but not same height every time. Sometimes it is 1cm and like yesterday it was after printing few milimiters. CCR1_Incredible Wolt.gcode Incredible Wolt.gcode

Hello, I have Creality 10 S5 printer. I see that most people use Cura slicer so I also downloaded and tried to slice some of models. But every time when I slice with Cura, the print is not finished. Mostly it happens that filament is broken somewhere at or before extruder. I dont know what I am doing wrong. When I slice with Creality slicer v 1.2.3, the very old one which came with printer, it always finishes print correctly. Cura and also the new Creality slicer, ALWAYS fail. Can anyone help me with the issue? I am new at 3D printing, have this printer for 2 weeks only. I attached an example, file with CCR1 is made by Cura and the other one made by Creality slicer. Thank you CableClip_NoHole.gcode CCR1_CableClipX1.gcode