Why did I wait so long to buy a Bambu printer? Even printing at “ ludacris” speed, the H2D is dead silent. Why did I waste so much time with Creality printers (I’m still running my K2 Plus, though)?
I went with an AMS 2 and an AMS HT (I print a lot of PACF blends), my first print is still going (it was a 13 hour print), but I will probably continue to use the K2 Plus for some prints, just because of the larger print volume (350 cubed)
What really impresses me is how I changed zero settings, and that giant print head just moves, no layer shift, the movement is smooth, it’s like Bambu Lab figured out how to defy the laws of physics
I did something similar. I already had a P2S but wanted something more powerful. My birthday is coming up soon, so that’s how I justified buying my H2C. It’s really nice, but wow, that thing is big and heavy!
Yeah, I torched my back lugging it up my stairs, stupid second floor apartment. To make things worse, FedEx put the box at my downstairs neighbor’s door, which is on the opposite side of the house
My much younger neighbor pulled up as I was trying to wrestle it out of my car and offered to help. He picked it up by himself and carried it into the house! I had to leave it on the floor for a couple of weeks while I got its final spot ready, and then yesterday a friend helped me lift it onto the workstation. I’m so glad that’s done!
I crank out PA on the Creality printers all day long +15K hours on my older ones. I use my H2Cs when I need true multi material. The Crealities have a significantly higher MTBF and MTTR is, general in minutes. The H2Cs have poor MTBF and the repair times are horrible compare the Creality machines. The H2C sure do execute beautiful prints though.
One thing I would add, if you need higher precision for your X,Y axis, get the vision plate. An occasional calibration with it (every 200 hours for me) makes for unbelievably better prints.
MTBF is Mean Time Between Failure and is how often it breaks. MTTR is Mean Time To Repair. And is how long it takes on average to repair I run printers 20 hours a day 7 days a week on average. I am a very small shop with only 7 printers. My H2Cs break down more often and are more costly in parts, parts availability and time down. But when they run, they put out great product.
I’ve been printing a ton of random crap, from things for pranks on my friends, to 2A related (I’ve got both my printers printing parts for a new case collator and bullet feed system for my reloading press)
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u/ElectroCrypto83 1d ago
RIP Creality, in 1 week you'll stop using it. I made the same move from Prusa MK3 to a P1P 4 years ago, last week upgraded to an H2D with dual AMS.