HUGE FAST & AFFORDABLE? - $470 Elegoo Neptune 4 Max 3D Printer

HUGE FAST & AFFORDABLE? - Lets checkout the brand new Elegoo Neptune 4 Max and see what this beast can do!

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[UncleJessy]

13:50 - that should be a hour Longer! not an hour less 🤦‍♂ Can you tell I dont script out any of my videos 😂

[dundyshibby]

Loving my Neptune 4 Max so far! Printed out a Flatbox and a CherryBox leverless controller from Printables and they both came out amazing using your OrcaSlicer profiles! Thank you so much for the great content!

[fakingitwithstyle]

I'm glad you mentioned the z offset issue, I'm having the same and thought I was going crazy

[JaXxX]

As someone who is running older printers with a sonicpad to get klipper functionality. I am interested in seeing how these bed slingers compare to the core xy options that are out now. Hoping for a deeper dive into that. Awesome to see some promise already.

[Marco-Tusenartist]

Elegoo is so weird, they are so fast with releasing hardware but the firmware and software is always needing to be upgraded or fixing somehow. It is like they barely test it before releasing it😂

[prodby]

would be awesome if you could share your own orca slicer profile :)

[meadmaker]

That Magneto Samurai mask was INSANE!! I'm sure it'll be beautiful when painted, but it looks incredible in that Galaxy Black! Wow!! Did Elegoo ever get back with you on the 0.6 nozzle issue? It's been 9 months, so I would assume they've got them to market by now, but you never know. Looks like Orca was the way to go with that printer, too. Amazing difference in the Silverhand statue between the 2 slicers. I'm gonna guess the "other" printer you compared it to in the video was an X1 Carbon, given the stats. Pretty comparable results. I thought I wanted a core X/Y for my first printer, but this bed slinger is impressive enough it might have changed my mind. Especially given the price point.

[SullivanOwen]

Since Elegoo announced the Giga with larger nozzles, I'm optimistic that they will be available at least by next Spring when that's supposed to be available. I have a 4Pro and was considering adding this, I'm using the Neptune for rough drafts before doing slow AF final prints in my BCN W50 and have had a ton of issues with supports, stringing and under extrusion so I think I'll be waiting for now to see the status of larger nozzles and sorting out slicer issues. I dislike Cura and will have to look into Orca, unfortunately the BCN also uses a skinned Cura and it's been hard to find an alternative that lets me do enough tweaking to supports to ensure successful prints and can support the IDEX on the BCN. Thanks for these reviews, it's super helpful to sort through all the options!

[TylerR]

I ordered a 4 Plus last night as my first 3D Printer. No idea how long it'll take to ship. Suffice it to say I'm looking forward to your review next week 😅 It was between 4+ and the SV06+ for me but Klipper+WiFi won out.

[Voidmonster]

That Galaxy Black PLA has produced some amazing prints for me too. It's just uncanny how good stuff printed with it looks!

[jeremylawson]

My last 3D printer was an Ender 3 & im in the market to start again. How far 3D printing has come is incredible 🤯

[Geoff_W]

Offset changing like that is usually due to bad v-wheels. Try swapping them out for Triangle Labs v-wheels, they usually provide a much better experience on any v-wheel printer.

[mlosuno]

This was a large 3D printer. The Orange Storm Giga is about to make this thing look like a tiny toy. 😮

[randomguynumber]

I also have this printer.
Been having the same issue with the Z offset, and a myriad of other issues.
The Z offset issue actually scratched up my print surface real bad, and I had to buy a replacement.
This machine with that issue and the complete lack of profiles or info to make your own is truly not ready for release.
The amount of hours and filament I have wasted to tune it, only to realize that no matter how well I tune it, I still have to be there to manually adjust the bed and Z offset at the start of every print, and if I’m not fast enough then I have to cancel the print and start over.
I’m really disappointed. The hardware seems good, but this shouldn’t have been released, it’s half baked at best and a huge headache.
I want it to get fixed, I want it to get good, but I’d suggest to others that it’s not ready yet so maybe hold out on buying until you hear these teething issues are fixed.

[whoisJackVolpe]

For anyone wondering: maximum quality print / resolution / layer height for the Neptune 4 max in the Elegoo Cura software is 0.12mm. Profiles are 0.12 High quality, 0.16 Normal Quality, 0.20 has 3 profiles: Fine Quality, Fine strength and Fine fast, 0.24 Medium Quality and finally 0.28 Draft Quality.

[LibertyEver]

My Neptune 4 Pro has been running almost nonstop since I got it probably six weeks ago. It's great. The only issue was the LED on the print head dimmed to almost nonexistent after 100 hours of ABS prints directly over a 110 C print bed. I'm waiting for Elegoo to make a Neptune 4 Pro Max with steel rollers on steel rails. I think that will be a significant improvement for print quality and reliability on a fast large format printer that is accelerating a relatively heavy print bed.

Elegoo should have used a Volcano compatible nozzle for all of the Neptune 4 series. They all print the same materials at the same speed. Making proprietary high flow nozzles when there is already a standard is not customer oriented. It's not as bad as some of the proprietary stunts Qidi has pulled that convinced me not to buy any more of their printers (I bought seven), but it's still needless market complexity and hassle that we don't need.

[proaudiorestore]

So just a counter to the “mystery” $1200 printer:

1.) it’s sibling can be bought for much less with pretty much the same performance and

2.) Elegoo’s biggest problem is in their eagerness to release new machines, they tend to forget the printers that have come before them. Firmware updates, upgrades etc? Forget about it. If you want that you’ll need to buy their new machine.

Make no mistake, elegoo can make some impressive machines, I was blown away by their Neptune 3. Less blown away by them dumping the product like a hot coal 3 months after release so they could support the Neptune 3 Pro. It’s something they have to really work on in my opinion. That said, I still think bang for buck, considering size, this printer is hard to beat. Just please support them better Elegoo!

[jonrrobinson]

Looks great! It would be good to see a comparison of print times, for the same model, with older machines, to get an idea of how much faster these prints can be - if that would be interesting.

[reasonablebeing]

I have an Anycubic Chiron with a huge bed. My solution was to build a wooden wheeled cart with heavy locking wheels. That way you can roll it out of the way when not in use or wherever you have the space for it when you are printing. That way it does not take up valuable counter space. The shelf underneath can hold tools, filament, etc. Maybe you can collaborate with a woodworking creator like Bob from "I like to make stuff?"

[Matthew-ft]

what filament is the t-rex made from?!?