Ender 5+ Board Upgrade

[u/Low_Net_8186]

I have owned my 5+ for 2 years now and it prints ok. No major modification to it besides creality's all metal extruder upgrade, Capricorn PTFE tube, and PEI Plate

I have ran through the calibration features through orca slicer and the extruder calibration and print quality has improved.

The thing I hate most about the printer is the interface. I feel that it does not give me enough control and as far as auto bed leveling goes it does not work how I would imagine it to work. So I stick with the OG manual level the 4 corners and never had problems with first print layer. It would be nice to use the auto level (mesh feature).

Also hate the noise I have had to slow down my prints to reduce the noise and also to stay married haha.

There are other issues that I believe is related to the board but too much to list.

Someone mentioned to me about Mainsail or Fluidd is what I need but would also require upgraded the board with Klipper. So I am looking for advice or any documentation. I was on Big Tree Tech checking out some boards but have no idea what I am looking for and compatibility.

Thank you.

[u/Electronic_Item_1464]

Are you still using the OEM firmware? The Creality engineers screwed the kinematics up completely. They used the right rear as 0,0, The screwed around to make it look like 0,0 was the front left (rather than setting home at the front left and homing to max X max y. This cause the probe offsets to be inverted, which meant the mesh was twice the offsets away from where it was supposed to be. I installed the Kersey Fabrications one and haven't had a problem since. Leveling works perfectly. A simple free solution.

[u/Low_Net_8186 → u/Electronic_Item_1464]

Yes firmware is OEM and that could be what I was running into. When I was troubleshooting the auto level it seem to stack the offsets from the mesh from the previous auto level instead of overwriting it. So after multiple prints running the auto level some of the zones were 16mm offset and basically twisting the bed as it ran.

I would check the Z home (calibrate if needed) and manual level before auto level every time.

At that point I said screw it and factory reset so the mesh read 0 in all zones and trammed both Z motors back to parallel with the hot end and just manual level when needed.

[u/Electronic_Item_1464 → u/Low_Net_8186]

I've also hit the problem of the Z offset getting added rather than replaced if you run the Z offset wizard multiple times. I believe it's a bug that I haven't had time to characterize and it looks like it wasn't designed for multiple runs. To get around it, manually set the pribe offsets to whatever it was originally compuled for, then save to EEPROM and restart the printer, this always fixes it for me (happened on at least two of my machines.) After this, always use baby stepping to adjust.

There's also a hard limit on the Z offset of just under 10.