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Ender 3 Pro will not auto home correctly after mainboard & BLTouch upgrades

I made two updates to my Ender 3 Pro: Silent Mainboard and BLTouch. My printer head is way out of sync now. After I Auto Home, it moves along the X-axis to the left, hits the stop switch & moves back to the right. It does not move at all on the…
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How to tell if I have TMC2208 or A4988 Drivers on Creality Silent V4.2.3 Board?

I have a new Creality Ender 2 Pro with a Creality 4.2.3 mainboard. I'm attempting to compile Marlin to fix a bug. How can I tell what driver chips I have on this board? I've narrowed it down to likely A4988 or TMC2208_STANDALONE or possibly the…
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Is Creality Ender 3 V2 Supposed To Come With Board V 4.2.2?

I recently purchased a Creality Ender 3 V2 ~1 month ago, and just yesterday installed a BLTouch. When looking at the motherboard, I noticed my board version is 4.2.2. Isn't the Ender 3 V2 supposed to come with a V 4.2.7 board? Did Creality…
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Difference between Creality V2.1/V2.2 boards? Where to find datasheets?

I can't find an official datasheet for either board. Does anyone know where to find this information? Something that has max voltages, pinouts, etc. Also, what's the difference between the V2.1 and the V2.2?
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What is the shaded area that appears around the outside of objects in Creality Slicer?

I'm using Creality Slicer, brims and other anti-warming or adhesion settings are all turned off. when I place an object on the bed a shaded area appears around it (See picture). Is this simply the area in which you can't print anything else in…
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Creality Ender 6 Heating Failed

There is a message on my Ender 6 that is telling my that my heating failed. This happened last night in the middle of a print. I have cycled the power like the screen says but the nozzle does not heat up. The print bed heats up just fine. The nozzle…
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HALOT BOX makes objects with support move up

I'm trying to slice some models using the default HALOT BOX software from Creality, which comes with the Halot One resin 3D printer. I've oriented them at 45 degrees, and am using supports. When I come to slice the models, the models all jump up a…
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Is it possible to run 2 Ender 3's off one power supply?

I have 2 Ender 3's and I am limited to wall sockets to power both the printers at the same time. So I was wondering if it was possible to wire both the printers to a single PSU? As the printer uses a single xt60 connecter for power to the mainboard,…
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Mid-print issue, extruder issue?

I have succumbed to asking the community for assistance. I've been scratching my head and lost many late nights and time trying to figure out what is going on with my 3D printer. Please see the image of what's going on with it. Sometimes my printer…
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In Creality slicer, which settings should be adjusted to reduce the contact area between a support and an overhang?

In Creality slicer, which settings would you change to reduce the amount of surface area from the supporting structure that makes contact with overhangs on the model you are printing. For example, if you are printing the object pictured below, and…
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CR-20 Pro Heated Bed Thermistor "stuck" after mainboard change

I recently changed the mainboard on my Ender CR-20 Pro because the SD card slot started acting up. I replaced it with the same spare part, hooked everything up (after having a bit of a fight unplugging it from the old mainboard as everything was…
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What is this 4 pin header on the Creality 4.2.3 board?

What might these 4 pins be on the Creality 4.2.3 board be? The silkscreen says G SC SD V It is next to the pin header for the LCD, so I suspect it is either a UART or TFT port. Googling I suspect SD might be short for SDA and SC might be short for…
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Axes no longer moving Ender 5 Plus

The printer was working fine until the nozzle jammed, so I cleaned it out but accidentally unplugged the BLTouch. I plugged it straight back in again but now none of the axes will move at all, not even manually. The BLTouch lights up still, I’ve…
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Creality 1.2.3 does not recognize M140 and 104?

For some reason, the Creality Slicer 1.2.3 ignores the M140 and M104 commands completely, even if I put them at the very beginning of the start G-code. I have tried different variations (e.g. M140 S60, M140 S{material_bed_temperature}, M140…
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Resin layer for adhesion: how should I do it?

Backstory: Like quite a lot of people here, I'm having problems with parts adhering to the build plate of a resin printer. I've tried everything that I can think of: cleaning & re-sanding the buildplate at 80 grit, levelling the plate with and…
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