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Tronxy XY-3 Rundown
OK Scott Here again. So I over the last few years and all I have decided to change how I do my printer rundowns a little. Some might call them reviews but that’s a term I don’t care for because to many reviews are bias. Therefore I do what I call rundowns. Where I give my overall thoughts on the printer along with a list of exactly what I found on the printers good and bad these are 100% my view of things I will give good and bad no matter what. So for this article I’m going to do a RUNDOWN on the Tronxy XY-3 (12V version) Plus which I have had for just over a month now.
Price is $330 Here.
Print area: 310 x 310 x 330mm
First impressions:
Boxed well and packages like it should be to make the trip around the world.
Came with a basic starter tool set.
Came with a spare Hotend assembly
Build time : 10 minutes from box to leveled and started print.
heat up time:
Bed
20 C to 55 C three and a half minutes
20 C to 75 C seven minutes
20 C to 100 25 minutes
Hotend:
20 C to 200 under 2 minutes
Now after several month and many spools of filament I can give you the following pro and con list.
Pro:
- Fast build
- magnetic bed Magnet holds to 100C
- Filament out sensor (works great)
- Resume on power lose (tested and works great)
- Bed not insulated.
- Touch screen.
Cons:
- Filament routing to the filament out sensor will wear out the filament out sensor housing.
- Buildtak / magnetic bed is poor quality should have metal not buildtak stuck to magnetic sheet.
- Small thumb wheels.
- A little loud when printing (think it’s the A4988 stepper drivers)
- Cable management lacks a bit.
Slicer settings I use:
PLA:
Hotend temp: 213
Bed: 55
Layer height: 0.12
Retract: 8.5mm
Retract speed: 130 mms
Print speed: 90 mms
Ok so looking back this printer has run none stop sense I got it. After swapping to Eryone magnetic bed (Maflex) love the magnetic bed setup. Over all this printer is worth every penny. Simple to use fast build upgrades I would add would be big thumb wheels a guild for filament into the extruder, strain relief for the bed wires. Better cable management. Now Tronxy has updated the XY-3 line to have 24V power supply
OK Scott Here again. So I over the last few years and all I have decided to change how I do my printer rundowns a little. Some might call them reviews but that’s a term I don’t care for because to many reviews are bias. Therefore I do what I call rundowns. Where I give my overall thoughts on the printer along with a list of exactly what I found on the printers good and bad these are 100% my view of things I will give good and bad no matter what. So for this article I’m going to do a RUNDOWN on the Tronxy XY-3 (12V version) Plus which I have had for just over a month now.
Price is $330 Here.
Print area: 310 x 310 x 330mm
First impressions:
Boxed well and packages like it should be to make the trip around the world.
Came with a basic starter tool set.
Came with a spare Hotend assembly
Build time : 10 minutes from box to leveled and started print.
heat up time:
Bed
20 C to 55 C three and a half minutes
20 C to 75 C seven minutes
20 C to 100 25 minutes
Hotend:
20 C to 200 under 2 minutes
Now after several month and many spools of filament I can give you the following pro and con list.
Pro:
- Fast build
- magnetic bed Magnet holds to 100C
- Filament out sensor (works great)
- Resume on power lose (tested and works great)
- Bed not insulated.
- Touch screen.
Cons:
- Filament routing to the filament out sensor will wear out the filament out sensor housing.
- Buildtak / magnetic bed is poor quality should have metal not buildtak stuck to magnetic sheet.
- Small thumb wheels.
- A little loud when printing (think it’s the A4988 stepper drivers)
- Cable management lacks a bit.
Slicer settings I use:
PLA:
Hotend temp: 213
Bed: 55
Layer height: 0.12
Retract: 8.5mm
Retract speed: 130 mms
Print speed: 90 mms
Ok so looking back this printer has run none stop sense I got it. After swapping to Eryone magnetic bed (Maflex) love the magnetic bed setup. Over all this printer is worth every penny. Simple to use fast build upgrades I would add would be big thumb wheels a guild for filament into the extruder, strain relief for the bed wires. Better cable management. Now Tronxy has updated the XY-3 line to have 24V power supply
