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Endurance Laser round 2 plus Klipper (Patreon)

Published:
2019-08-20 08:11:20
Imported:
2026-06

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Dear Patrons,

You may remember previously that I had a lot of trouble with an Endurance laser I was meant to be making a video on. It ended up being sent back to Russia and a new one sent in its place. Long story short the new one (10 watt) was not defective but its not any more powerful than the 5W Emblaser 2 I have access to at school. In my opinion there are many claims on the product page of the website that are just not true.

I put in a stupid amount of hours testing and finishing the video over the weekend. I apologise that I was slow to respond here. The video is done and ready to export for upload later this week, but I thought I would send Endurance a hard but fair email outlining my concerns over the product before I published.

George replied that night saying that he had received my email and would reply in full the next day, but as yet this has not happened. I'm wary of giving overly negative reviews but in this case I feel I've tried really hard to give the product a fair test. We'll see if George responds, I'm happy to edit out anything that is unfair after his explanations if they come.

The good news is I'm now way ahead for my video after that and think after reading the responses to my last post I will finally tackle Klipper. I sent some time today reading through the docs. It's not very user friendly with the need for plenty of ssh command line to the pi so hopefully I can make a useful guide.

This week I hope to record a behind the scenes exclusive video of repairing the CR-10 Max and replacing the busted BLtouch. Stay tuned.

Michael

Comments

Short Attention Span Hobbies

Is it time for someone to apply the "Honest Trailers" approach to technology reviews? When in doubt resort to satire.

Elio Ross

There was a guy some time ago trying to push some rubbish lasers on to the maker community, I'm pretty sure he was from Russia, perhaps the same person? Give us your honest thoughts. Failures are often more important than our successes.

Teaching Tech
>>25964188

I think they are better than the cheap Chinese ones but no where near as good as what is advertised. For example they claim my 10W one can cut through 5mm in one pass. The best I've seen from a customer is 10 passes.

Phil Maddox

I guess the difference is are you a beta tester or reviewer?. If the latter then as long as you differentiate between fact and opinion, a quality review is always welcome. Cheers Phil

Phil Andrew

All I can say is you review what is in front of you. And lets face it, you did the right thing and gave the manufacturer the chance to address your questions and concerns. If said manufacturer can't be bothered to answer in a timely manner (IMHO, 24 hours is ample in the case of product reviews) then go ahead and post. If the manufacturer comes back with a suitable resolution then by all means update the review.

Peter Richards

I have had the same experience with the Endurance laser. In my opinion they are very dodgy, and underperform.

Teaching Tech
>>26024465

What surprises me is that everyone seems happy in the Facebook group. There's something weird going on with 80 moderators, like making people a mod to keep them happy.

Justin Schuh

Regarding Klipper, I use it on two different machines (CR-10S and Tronxy X5S; both heavily modified). My experience is that it allows me to print at much higher speeds than Marlin while still getting equivalent accuracy and superior surface finish. So, if you're going to put it through its paces, I suggest you start there.

Teaching Tech
>>26323588

I've decided to leave it installed on one of my printers permanently, but am not sure which one is the fastest. Maybe the Artillery3D X1 has the most potential for speed?

Justin Schuh
>>26323588

If you're going to put it on the X1 I suggest setting max_accel pretty low to avoid serious ringing from the bed movement (the default is way too high; I run between 1200-1500 on my CR-10S). The Tronxy X5S is where Klipper shines most for me. I upgraded pretty much everything on it: linear rails, idlers and belt, volcano clone hotend, pancake stepper w/ BMG clone, and it's currently offline to swap in an skr 1.3 w/ TMC2208. The major thing, however, is that being a corexy means the printhead mass is very light, so I have max_accel at 3000 and get very nice prints at 250mm/s.