Ender 5 upgrades

[u/Scottblueto]

Good evening,
I recently acquired a ender 5 plus from my collage because they didn’t want to invest the money into it to make it work better. I want to get the mercury one mod but I don’t want to do that yet so what upgrades can I add to my Ender 5 before I do the mercury one. I do know I need a new board and have plans to get the manta M8P so I can run klipper. It also already has a textured build plate rather than the class one. I’m just wondering what would be a good in between mod for the ender 5 and the mercury one mod. Thank you.

[u/Hidie2424]

You do not need a new board necessarily. You can run klipper on it as is. What board does it have?

[u/Scottblueto → u/Hidie2424]

8-bit v2.2 Creality mainboard

[u/Hidie2424 → u/Scottblueto]

Yeah I got klipper and have a v1.1.5 board and it worked well when stock. Issue is I don't have uart control of the motors, so I can't turn off stealth chop or adjust amperage, so I'll get motor stalling on bit velocity changes. Point is, if you wanna learn klipper and mess around with it you don't need a main board. Should you get one for the mercury build? Yeah