Creality Official Ender 3 Silent Motherboard Upgrade V4.2.7
Creality Official Ender 3 Silent Motherboard Upgrade V4.2.7 Mainboard Control Board with TMC2225 Driver 3D Printer Controller Parts Accessories Works with Ender-3/3 Pro / 3 Max / 3 V2
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| Weight: | 130 g |
| Dimensions: | 15.4 x 11.7 x 4.4 cm; 130 Grams |
| Part: | CRGJX-P-E3ZB |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Creality 3D |
| Dimensions: | 15.4 x 11.7 x 4.4 cm; 130 Grams |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Reference: | CRGJX-P-E3ZB |
Siccome che io e la sfiga camminiamo di pari passo ho dovuto comprarmi l ennesimo ricambio per la mia Ender 3
Per quanto riguarda il prodotto devo fare presente che la macchina raggiunge un grado di silenziosit veramente sbalorditivo ( monto anche gli ammortizzatori sui motori )
grazie ai cip aggiunti sulle uscite dei collegamenti .
Sono soddisfattissimo !
Great little board extra cooling is required from my experience good company board come boxed in original box flashing firmware no problems decent ARM chips nice if you want to keep it all original
It is so silent, it makes you mad the old one was so loud!
And the swap is as easy as they come, too!
Just make sure you either mark the wires, or do them one by one, taking them off the old board and immediately putting them into the new one like i did.
Putting the new firmware on it is as easy as downloading it from creality, putting it on the sd and turning it on!
If you still have the 4.2.2 board, honestly, this is your sign to upgrade. You wont regret it!
When watching the video, turn your sound up! Bear in mind the only stock fans left is the one from the power supply, and the part cooler, i upgraded to noctua fans for hotend and on the motherboard
Nella mia Ender 3 ho sostituito la scheda originale 4.2.2 con questa 4.2.7. La stampante veramente silenziosa per quanto riguarda i motori, si sente solo il rumore delle ventole.
Facile da sostituire. Viene fornita con Firmware base per la Ender 3, ma io avendo messo il CR-Touch ho chiesto al venditore il Link per scaricarlo. Ottenuto velocemente il link ho scaricato il firmware e lo posto su una sd senza altri file. Questa l’ ho inserita nell’apposito slot e dopo ho accesso la stampante che in pochi secondi ha effettuato l’ aggiornamento. Ricordarsi di togliere la sd con il firmware se no ad ogni accensione effettua l’aggiornamento.
Completamente soddisfatto del prodotto.
My Ender 3 3d printer had a later 4.2.2 board installed but with the older stepper motor drivers. As a result it always sounded like an angry robot factory whenever I printed anything and it could be heard all over the house..
So, this board is version 4.2.7 with the later, and quieter, stepper motor drivers.
Fitting the board is a little bit fiddly as you’re effectively replacing the brain of the whole operation. All the connections are there from the old board so it is just a cable swap but you will need a screwdriver to undo a few of the wires. Make sure you note what goes where as a few aren’t clearly marked – I used my mobile to take pictures.
Once fitted I flashed a custom firmware based on Marlin to the board. The official Creality firmware wasn’t easy to find on the Creality website so I eventually ended up downloading the custom firmware which works great.
So. Is it quieter than the old board? Yes, yes, yes. You might think Airwolf’s ‘whisper mode’ was quiet but that’s nothing compared to this. Printing is virtually silent. The only noise is from the power supply fans and nozzle cooling fans. It’s totally unbelievable the difference this makes to the printer. I set a print going and forgot I was printing anything because it was so quiet.
If you have an Ender 3 there is a chance you have a 4.2.2 board with the quiet stepper motor drivers already so this board wouldn’t be much use. But if you don’t (and I’m fairly sure you’ll know if you don’t) then this board is an absolutely essential upgrade.
Now all I need to do is make those fans a bit quieter….
He estado utilizando la impresora 3D Creality Ender 3 durante algn tiempo y recientemente decid realizar una actualizacin para eliminar el ruido molesto que generaban los motores.
La instalacin no es complicada pero requiere de algo de tiempo, siempre hacer una foto de todos los cables para luego saber donde va cada uno, el principal inconveniente que me encontr fue la silicona que venia con la placa de serie que impeda sacar los cables con facilidad.
El ruido de los motores se ha reducido drsticamente, casi a niveles nulos. Ahora puedo imprimir sin tener que preocuparme por el ruido molesto que antes tena que soportar. Esto ha hecho que mi experiencia de impresin sea mucho ms agradable y tranquila.
Adems de la reduccin de ruido, la placa base tambin ha demostrado ser muy confiable y eficiente en trminos de rendimiento. Los controladores TMC2225 ofrecen un funcionamiento suave y preciso de los motores, lo que se traduce en una mejora en la calidad de las impresiones. He notado una reduccin significativa en las vibraciones y los movimientos indeseados durante la impresin, lo que ha resultado en acabados ms suaves y detalles ms precisos.
It’s so silent that you can’t compare it with the older one. Now the fan is the noisiest part of the printer. Worth every penny in my opinion eslecially with the touch device.
I removed the old board having taken photos of the wiring. I found it easier to fit some of the thicker (power) wires before affixing the new motherboard as the leads are quite short and/or unwieldy, which would’ve made it difficult inserting them into an immobile board in a confined space. Admittedly it doesn’t look right having the board hanging off wires, but I’ve found it to be a reasonable approach in a pinch. One thing I’m still not 100% sure about are the plug-in fan connections, but I plugged the motherboard cooling fan into the connector nearer to the edge of the board.
Before switching on, I wanted to ensure I had the right firmware available.
The printer I upgraded is an Ender 3 Pro with NO auto-levelling probe. In this case, I extracted “Ender-3 Pro- Marlin2.0.1 – V1.0.1 – TMC2225 – English.bin” from a ZIP file I downloaded from the Creality web site (owing to Amazon’s review rules, I can’t quote the URL, but you’ll find the ZIP file if you look for “Ender-3 pro 4.2.7 mainboard firmware (32 bit)” on the Creality website’s download page; at the time it was dated 16 Jan. 2021). In my case, the file was in the “Ender-3 pro 4.2.7 mainboard firmware32 bitMarlin2.0.1 V1.0.1 original version TMC2225” folder of the ZIP file.
Maybe I was being dim, but I couldn’t find clear instructions about where to put the binary image, so just copied it onto the root of a micro-SD card (i.e. not in a folder) in the hope that the motherboard would find it and take the appropriate action.
On switching on the printer, the screen lit up but, alarmingly, remained blank. Luckily I realised that the bootloader (-?) was probably flashing the image I’d put onto the uSD card, otherwise I might’ve turned it off prematurely, possibly bricking the processor. Sure enough, the menu appeared after a few seconds. (So, please be patient!).
I ‘auto-homed’ the print head and – wow! – it IS practically inaudible. The mechanism silently and mysteriously adjusted itself and I was able to set about levelling the bed. It really is a joy to print something without having to listen to what normally sounds like a group of kids practicing the violin in a wind tunnel. I presume the stepper motor control is more refined with this new board. Now I just need to find quieter fans!
So, be careful handling the board. Ideally earth yourself, but certainly hold the boards by the edges or some non-conductive parts. Removing the connectors from the outgoing board was difficult because – I later realised – something like hot melt glue had been used to secure them. You might try picking the glue off first. I’m keeping the old board (in the static-protection packaging) in case of problems and I suggest you do the same (it doesn’t take up much space). Again, don’t panic if the screen is blank when you first switch on. Anyway, good luck and happy printing!
Easy install, easy setup and just the quietness of the stepper motors is fantastic. Anyone fitting this will not be disappointed. Only the fans can be heart and they are next on my list.
This is an excellent update to my Ender 3 Pro with 1.1.5 silent board, because it allows me to finally upgrade to Marlin 2.x. Everything works fine, I especially love being able to update the firmware just by putting the compiled firmware file in to the SDCard. I have a very big warning though, I burned the little fuse (not the big blue one but the SMD one marked with F2) and rendered the board useless by mounting my BLTouch without being careful of the pin order, hopefully I fixed the board by replacing the burned fuse with a little wire (I have the proper fuse now which I’ll solder later on). The STM32 ARM microchip seems to be faster than the older ATMEGA1284P, though the feeling of speed rather comes from my experience with the Ender 3 Pro’s menu being rendered twice as fast, I didn’t do a very fast print test to see if the microchip is fast enough to keep processing the GCode. The richness of the features that I can enable without filling the memory is priceless. This is the number one update I would recommend for the old Creality 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 motherboard owners.
EDIT: It seems that I also burned the MOSFET which controls the fan speed, I had to replace that too to be able to properly control the part cooling fan speed, otherwise it was always working at 100%.
Fitted this on my Ender 3. Found it quite simple as the old board and the new one were basically identical.
What I did was unplug 1 wire (or 1 group of wires) at a time then plugged them into the new board so I knew where the unlabeled wires went. Really fiddly though.
Very quiet, so a worthwhile upgrade! Highly recommended.
Upgraded the non silent 4.2.2 board in my Ender 3 Pro. This has made such a huge change, in comparison to how the board sounded before. The loudest thing after the board upgrade was the fans. After replacing those for Noctuas, and a new fan duct. The printer is now quiet enough to be left runnin in my lounge during the daytime, the sound levels are so much lower.
If you want your printer to run quietly this is the upgrade for you.