Is The Creality Ender 3 V2 Worth It?

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In this video we take a look at the Creality Ender 3 v2. I have gotten a ton of questions about my thoughts on this machine since it launched so I am happy to finally be able to provide some feedback. We will take a look the specs of the Ender 3 v2, what assembly is like, print quality, and my overall experience with using this printer.

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[johnoher]

Bought this printer a few weeks ago as a complete noob. Been printing non stop since I got it. Legit the coolest thing I've owned

[zioxei]

Those prints are unbelievable, I'm absolutely buying this printer. It convinced me in just one day of even considering to buy a printer.

[FilamentFriday]

Nice summary. Agree, I don’t like the display. I also don’t like the larger plastic fan shroud. It’s more difficult to remove than standard Ender 3 and blocks access to the coupler if I need to remove it and the PTFE.

[ravenwolfm]

Had this machine about a year now. Is it perfect? No, but replace the tube and a few small upgrades it has been running flawlessly. Love it.

[andrewithtaylora]

I have a heavily modded ender 3 v2 and I'm just bought 2 Elagoo Neptune 2's because of the price. Print your own fan options and your GTG.

[Vok]

Biggest issue with the V2 is if you get one of the faulty 4.2.2 board which Creality still refuses to acknowledge and replace.

[mshawmi]

Yes would like to see the bed level touch system added.

[Jaimezscott]

Im brand new to 3D printing and just bought one of these new. Thanks for the thorough review. Learned a bunch.

[ProtoPropski]

I'll be 100% honest, a loud fan is a plus for me...

I use to live in an area for most my life that got up to 120°f regularly in summer, and I got an industrial fan as a result for my room to keep cool.

I used it so much overnight that even now that I live in a colder climate, I still keep it on overnight... Cause I can't relax, and go to sleep without the loud hum of the fan circulating the air.

So having another loud fan in my room honestly won't bother me, even if the estimated 50 db that the Ender 3 V2 has is way quieter then my Industrial Fan.

[draggy]

Only thing i'd recommend new people with it do, or any new one of these do is what i eventually figured out and that's to push the feed tube in further down into the hot end, as it seems it's not set as deep as possible out the box and can cause many a issue like it did me.

[YIPEE.]

I was told by this guy. Frankly built that this was arguably the best printer to start with and I will buy it very soon I am doing a LOT of 3D printing research

[NotSmallKlein]

Very helpful, I was contemplating if I should get this or not, I think I will now.

[Mrpurple]

The Ender 3 was the machine I was going to get. Then they came out with the Anet A8 Plus and I got that one. I have been interested in 32 bit and was looking at the V2. After your video I have firmly decided in favor of the V2, thank you

[a_n_i_m_o_t_i_o_n_s]

I just got one of these, I had some issues with levelling the bed, but moving forwards now.. thanks for your video here, enjoyed listening to you talk about this printer...

[Edithish]

I received my printer today. Gonna assemble it tomorrow! Thanks a lot for your video!

[Foxtrot_Woof]

What I want to know.. the E3V3 can be had for around $250 . Amazon currently has an Elegoo Neptune 2 in stock at $160. So is the E3V2 worth almost $100 more over the Elegoo. I know there is a bigger community and more secondary market support for the E3, but being that it is essentially a clone a lot of that will also be compatible with the Neptune2.

And if Elegoo will get their head screwed on right and get enough Neptunes out there the community support for it will pickup as well.

[vezz]

Man, I like your videos and your approach to stuff. I'm a new follower, and I just bought a Ender 3. If you could reorganize your old videos in some playlist it would be much easier to find them!

[Fahra]

Would love to see a proper noctua upgrade video. There isn't really one for the v2 specifically.

[byzhiphop]

I ended up upgrading mine to a BTT board as I thought the extruder stepper died after a direct drive upgrade (turns out it was just a cable so.. meh), but ended up also for the touchscreen with the simple Marlin reprap screen "emulator" and I did not regret it. That color screen is more of a hindrance than help, quite honestly... for those that don't know: these screens are separate little devices with their own firmware, meaning you lose a lot of flexibility the basic, monochrome pixely screens have, especially if you upgrade and compile Marlin yourself and want to do funkier things like sync to OctoPrint, use the Pause command and the like as these screens are fairly separate modules... so for example... on pause they just start beeping but you get no pop-up prompt to continue, etc. You can also not modify the menu structure, add new things like the Z offset wizard, or compile the firmware yourself etc.

I also really hate that bed glass, upgrading that to a flexible PEI sheet was truly a game-changer because I stopped struggling with first layer warping, etc. 

It's also worth upgrading the Z axis to a dual rod setup to prevent droop. I myself installed a Micro Swiss direct drive / hot-end kit and with this set-up I'm pretty much completely satisfied with it --- I printed PLA at 100mm/s without any giant quality downgrades or print defects, bridging and overhangs are pretty on point, too. Even ran 2 day+ prints. I've printed PLA and PETG with not too many issues (petg needed some tuning, though) and i'm now venturing into flexibles.

Oh, and I also replaced the fans on it, the hot-end fan pretty much started dying after a month and a half and started making weird noises the moment it was started, kinda disappointing..

It's also worth compiling your own up-to-date customized Marlin builds.

[ericaclark]

I got mine about a month ago my first printer and Its so easy to use.