1 hour ago, nickp100 said:I wish the one that I mentioned earlier was the only problem with this printer,( as I was able to print anyways). The Air Manager is a complete and utter brick. Even though it shows installed under maintenance the actual fan never kicks in. As a result, with the hood closed it clogged a brand new print core with filament. Even after we decided to print from then on with the hood open, we have had a myriad of issues with the material station. About 60% of the time the filament never makes into the print cores, and has to be fished out. In our current situation filament is stuck between the lower decoupler (which is now stuck and cannot be removed) and the material station.
We in the process of filing all those issues
All that seems like this machine was never meant to be released at this point and we all are beta testing for free!
Extremely dissappointed with this "pro" bundle
I had a similar issue with the air handler. Had Ultimaker tech support help out. The only solution was to replace it under warranty. A defective unit was the tech support conclusion.
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I wish the one that I mentioned earlier was the only problem with this printer,( as I was able to print anyways). The Air Manager is a complete and utter brick. Even though it shows installed under maintenance the actual fan never kicks in. As a result, with the hood closed it clogged a brand new print core with filament. Even after we decided to print from then on with the hood open, we have had a myriad of issues with the material station. About 60% of the time the filament never makes into the print cores, and has to be fished out. In our current situation filament is stuck between the lower decoupler (which is now stuck and cannot be removed) and the material station.
We in the process of filing all those issues
All that seems like this machine was never meant to be released at this point and we all are beta testing for free!
Extremely dissappointed with this "pro" bundle
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uncle_bob 21
Hi
So far here, there have been zero issues with the air handler. It fires up when it should and goes off when things are done. The issue mentioned above on the material station was a one off and has never come back. There *is* now an issue with slot A on the material station ( = it no longer recognizes inserted filament). I have an email into the dealer that hopefully they will respond to "real soon now" about that. I have over a hundred printing hours in on the material station at this point. Only two failures so far.
One good story about the material station:
Last night I had a spool get tangled on position C. Normally this gets to a "grind it down" situation on an UM3. It should give you a filament error on the bare S5. The material station "happily" unloaded that spool and went on to the next one. Not a big deal, it's *supposed* to work that way. It's just nice to see it doing what it's supposed to do.
Bob
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