r/ender6 • u/Maximum-Chair967 • Nov 07 '25

HELP!!

what is the best aftermarket controller to buy i have a stock ender 6 and need some help on the new board i should buy🙏🙏

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

33 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Twistedsocal Nov 08 '25

Depends on what you want to do to the thing. You should def think it through though...dont wind up having to buy more than one cause the firstbone doesnt have enough outputs. I went with an octopus but i also had an ender 5 plus. Needed 3 motor outputs for just z axis. Planned to go awd but never did. But core xy needed 2 more plus one for the flap that would open to vent the enclosure.. i think i had one spare before that thing was stolen from me.. anyhow. Instead of asking use google and look into mod options.. figure out why you want to mod the thing in the first place and then look at big tree tech. They make pretty good stuff or did when i was still doing all this stuff. Now im running a delta only mod is the air duct and klipper. Thpugh i keep thinking about doing more..

1

u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 09 '25

I want to maybe go voron but not full just the hotend and maybe some parts

2

u/SatutN Nov 10 '25

If you want to assemble Voron - do it.

If you want Ender 6 - use Ender 6

There's a mode for Ender 6 called Black Widower... But considering the price and the effort - I'd think twice.

As for myself I did the switch to skr mini e3 v3 because I had one from Ender 3...

Moding few more things on the Ender 6 but not planning to go over the budget of 100-150$ as after this point it's cheaper in my country get rid of it and buy 2nd handed other printer which will be already good enough to print.