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Help me choose a printer | X1C vs P1S | What's your preferred filament? (self.general)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by RenegadeSC to c/general

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Looking to finally make the jump from my old Ender 3 to a better printer, I've upgraded the Ender quite a lot but have run into multiple problems over the years with custom firmwares. During my last move, I snapped the SD card slot off the main board and have had issues getting the new one back up and running. With all of that said I'm ready to just buy once, cry once, and get back to printing.

The options I'm looking at are either the X1C or the P1S. I wanted to get opinions here, as from what I've found so far, the P1S seems to have the same print speed/quality, just minus the AI, and upgraded steel components. How capable is the P1S stock, and what upgrades, if any, would be recommended?

From what I've found, the AMS 2 seems to be the ideal choice over the OG AMS due to the drying function and more user-friendly design. It's $120 more for the AMS 2 combo than the AMS combo, so for those of you who have these setups, is the AMS 2 worth it?

Other than the printer selection, what are your go-to filaments and brands? I've seen PPA-CF, PA6-CF, and PAHT-CF mentioned, but don't really understand the pros and cons of each.

I was a long-time lurker on the Fosscad sub, but I am hoping to contribute moving forward.

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[–] TheShittinator 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LAN mode is fine, but I don't think there's a way to get Bambu Handy to play nicely with it, no. But in LAN mode, it should be safe to connect to it via Orca -- that traffic doesn't leave your LAN, last someone sniffed it with wireshark.

It's not an entry-level setup by any fucking means, but what I've got is my Bambu hooked up to HomeAssistant, which proxies the webcam and lets me view it from my phone along with all of its instrumentation. That plus some HA automations to message me on Matrix when the printer starts, stops, has an error, etc.

x1plus is good. I don't use any of its niche features, just like the peace of mind and the quicker pre-print calibration.

[–] DocHolliday 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply. I planned to have a home assistant setup sometime anyway so I'll def have to look into that for sure and the quicker print start feature alone would be amazing so I'll probably be getting that setup too.