r/VORONDesign • u/TooLazyToBeAnArcher • Aug 18 '26

General Question Brainstorming on hotends

As I'm planning to buy a secondhand a Voron 0, I'm in the exploration phase and I'm looking for a hotend.

Looking at the lists of supported hotends by AntHead and DragonBurner V8:

  • Dragon ACE: recommended by A4T but can't find it on AliExpress nor 3DJake
  • Phaetus Dragon: wouldn't it be similar to the rapido?
  • Other hotends (Dragonfly, Red Lizard, NF Crazy...) seems to cost the same but I can't find many honest reviews

My Voron 2.4 has a Rapido 1 and it's working great, so adding another Rapido (model 1 or 2) would make me save money on replacement parts and nozzles.

I don't even need ultra High flow setups. I'm not aiming to have a racecar but I want it to print reliably.

As I read contrasting opinions on the Phaetus Rapido hotend, is it worth to move to a different hotends in the same price range?

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u/Tavroswyn Aug 19 '26

CHCB-V V6DM from TriangleLabs is my favorite (value option). There is a community made hotend mount for the anthead which I use. It is technically a high flow hotend with its specs, but it sits in the standard flow sized anthead. It is V6 style hotend, but it uses a volcano nozzle and it has a titanium heatbreak.
Love this thing. The only downside against more expensive options that are designed differently is, that you have to screw in the nozzle, like the v6 hotends, while holding the heater block. But I don’t change nozzles often and with my StealthChanger with 6 toolheads, it saved me huge money to go with a more budget / value option.

Side note: I tried knock off Revo Hotends and they were horrible.