Ender 3 V2 Success (Patreon)

The first print failed and the top of the hotend felt very hot. The fan cover is hard to see through and not as easy to take off as the standard Ender 3. But when I did get it off I could see the hotend cooling fan was stalled. I gave it a slight nudge and it started spinning.

I then reassembled it and printed a couple CHEP cubes in two different PLA. The 2nd was better than the first. I shut it down, let it sit and later powered it back up to print a 3DBenchy. This time I tried to hear if the fan was spinning. It’s much quieter than a standard Ender 3 but I could hear it. So the stall condition seems to have disappeared for now. The 3DBenchy was successful as well.

So I’m not sure why the fan stalled but that caused the PLA to expand and clogged hotend. That was the cause of the failure. It appears to be working fine now and printing quiet good.

It has a Creality 32 bit board but I’ll cover that more in another post.