Best Controller For Your 3D Printer Build? (BTT Kraken)

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[tompappas]

I am so sad that I finished my wiring and most of my klipper yesterday with virtually no reliable information on this board but I am excited that you did it and I will learn even more about this monster.

[hondacivic]

This would fit perfectly in an Annex K3 which you should definitely build

[AwesomeSaussage]

I love your intro! It's groovy, it's short. I'm not a printer builder nor tinkerer, but just for the sake of your intro I had to watch!

[leesmithsworkshop]

The kraken would make a great CNC controller board with the 4 higher amp drivers. So far I am very happy with my Leviathan it's reliable and working perfectly.

[Festivejelly]

This boards are getting very impressive! Handy for those of us who run custom setups

[umbratherios]

This is why DIY printers are the best ones out there... the customizability. the personalization. the performance. the FUN and REWARD after a good build. the ability to MAKE something how YOU want it.

I might just buy and yeet this thing on my build in the near future...

[airheadbit]

I purchased one and was talking about it on discord when someone mentioned they had sent their Kraken back because they could not change the voltage on each driver. Since the only motor that can't take 60 volt in the setup I'm planning for the Kraken is the extruder it doesn't matter for me, the extruder has a 24 volt TMC chip on the hothead board.

[XoNMan]

Pretty good review but having two CAN ports doesn't make it more suitable for IDEX than one CAN port. CAN is a bus protocol, it supports several dozen nodes on a single network.

[bramkrist]

Scored this one for 10$ when it released, now i am waiting for the designated voron.

[avejst]

Great video as always
The LDO would be my choise, mostly becource there are fan-speed feedback.
Thanks for sharing your expirences with all of us 🙂

[VolkanTaninmis]

since 2020 (I mean skr mini e3 v2) I'm quite big fan of BTT boards.

[christopherlarime]

I would love to build the new Voron Phenix with the Kraken as soon as it becomes available.

[TheGeordietheWitchandtheWench]

One thing i am confused about, this board looks awesome.... but why do I need a Pi? Can't I just install Linux (Klipper) directly to this board? All these bells and whistles but we still need a companion computer to run Pi? Is that correct?

[ModBotArmy]

This board requires tuning and it isn’t a general purpose controller. VZBot team let me know they don’t recommend it for the printer due to risk of damaging the Nema 17 stepper motors. Be sure to use high current steppers that can handle the minimum output.

[nunovicente]

Just one thing you got wrong, all the 8 drivers on the Kraken are high voltage, just some have higher Amp rating than others

[RVBlueZone]

I've had one and got it going fairly easy however the sensor less homing was a bear till I figured out the jumpers you needed to set and now that it's printing well I figured I would go the AWD route for giggles. All in all it's been very good though it does like firmware reboots between prints or the homing is not so great.

[thomaswiley]

I2C is a pretty important addition, even though it is pretty much undiscovered country in 3D printing

[DJProPlusMax]

Seems like the perfect board for the hopefully upcoming The100 v2

[timzimmerman]

I picked up the Kraken, due to the need for the 8 motor drivers. However, I am a little confused on how to set up motor 3 being the 2nd Z stepper I want to configure for the 5th extruder. The Kraken has many bells and whistles that led me to pick that board. I am excited to be building with this board. I have a 5 in 1 out setup, built around a 5 input diamond hot end.

[seljd]

the biggest diggerence between this and Ldo Leviathan is that this allows you to make Voron 2.4 tapchanger with very fast Z travel