At the beginning of April 2025, I bought the Creality Hi Combo printer. It’s an easy printer to set up, and it’s my first experience with such a device. Once everything was assembled, I followed the Creality videos on youtube and everything worked, or almost.
I turned on the printer and made the first settings, test alignments and everything else it does automatically. After this stage, I tried to connect to the Creality Cloud, but the “Network” menu didn’t appear on the screen, so I searched the internet to find the solution: Update the Firmware.
Firmware updated, started the printer again, this time the menu was identical to the one described in the manual, and the configuration was complete, connected to wifi and the Creality Cloud, in the mobile app I also found the printer, everything was fine.
As my first print, I selected one of the models that comes with the printer itself, via the LCD screen menu. I printed a “Block purge”, and the result was sensational. 17 minutes later, it was perfect, no burrs, no layer marks, I really liked it and got excited.
It was late at night, and the excitement of having it working was sensational. I decided to print a “poop basket” which also comes in the printer’s internal menu. As it was late at night, it started printing and it was going to take about 3 hours, so I decided to leave it printing and went to bed, which was my mistake.
I woke up about 40 minutes later, and the printer was making a noise, which is what woke me up, a fright.
Well, I’ll leave the photo for you to see, and now I’ve dismantled it and I’m looking for parts to replace it, because the extruder chip cable has also been damaged.
