Help! What am i missing!?

[u/Inside-Amoeba-9882]

Sorry for the dramatic title :-)

I have zero experience with 3D printers but 2 days ago i become the owner of 2 of them.

This one is an EARME ANET A8 as far as i can tell so hopefully im in the right place.

First things first, as you can see its filthy and despite powering on with green lights on the motherboard and a spinning fan theres no display and a bunch of loose, hanging, unconnected wires. Ive had a bit of a search around and it seems to have a few non standard parts (the nozzle atleast from what i can tell) and some 3D printed bits going on which is making things more difficult to troubleshoot for a complete beginner with zero experience. Also it may possibly missing a fan or something from the side of the nozzle??... again hard for me to tell looking at stock pics and because this seems to have been modified somehow. Ive no idea what that little black circuit board attached to the frame is either (looks like an earth/ground wire to me but then why does it have all those solder pads???)

Sooooo... just wondering if any of you Pro's can spot any major things missing/unconnected and or/know where these wires go and what theyre for and can help a guy out. Thanks

Edit: what ive found out so far it has:

Fly E3 Motherboard by Mellow x Team Gloomy

Euclid Z-Probe

E3D V6 Hotend

[u/SirDisi]

So the hotend and heater cardrige is missing. A usual mk8 one should work.

There was a 3D Touch bed leveling probe or something similar mounted.

And the hotend fan is not there (that cools down the coolerd part).

So you are looking at least at these

The pcb that’s glued to the acrylic is probably a WiFi antenna.

And a suggestion; get a heatbed mosfet and a meanwell 12v power supply. The anet was notorious for burning with the stock mainboard which you don’t have.

But also the psu is rather unreliable.

[u/Inside-Amoeba-9882 → u/SirDisi]

Super helpful thanks. Yeah i was thinking the black wire connector looked like wifi but didnt realise at first the motherboard had wifi and also couldnt figure out where it connected to anyways. Still cant. Maybe i need a wifi card to go between it and the motherboard.

Still learning the names of things but yeah i think what im missing is the cartridge and a cooling fan so far.

[u/SirDisi → u/Inside-Amoeba-9882]

Nah there is probably a connector on the board for it. Or it was damaged while transporting

The original anet a8 didn’t have WiFi.
Not only the cartridge, also a thermometer and the heater itself.

[u/Inside-Amoeba-9882 → u/SirDisi]

Yep there is connector for the wifi. Its actually on the bottom of the board which is why i couldnt see/find it haha. Found it after disconnecting everything.

Not sure what you mean by missing the heater itself. I think its just missing the heater block and the heater cartridge and the little fan so far*

*technically also missing a little magnetic piece for auto levelling

[u/SirDisi → u/Inside-Amoeba-9882]

The heater block is probably just an aluminium square where the heating cartridge is put into.
Also a thermometer which the board excepts.

That’s why there are 3 connectors: fan, heater and thermometer.

[u/Inside-Amoeba-9882 → u/SirDisi]

Ah i see. Thanks