I have an ender 5 plus I can’t use for large prints because the servo motors are to noisy when printing. At one time, creality had a silent motherboard upgrade for the ender 5 plus, but that seems to be out of stock everywhere. I was thinking about purchasing an ender 3 V4.2.7 silent motherboard, creating a splitter for the Z axis servos, and using the ender 3 firmware. I know I’ll have to confirm the firmware supports the filament runout sensor and cr-touch for bed leveling. Does anyone think this will work? Or, will I need to do something different?
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That is the board that I bought for mine. it has gone up a lot in price since I bought one, makes a helluva difference, I can only hear the fans now. I did some troubleshooting a while ago and fitted the original board, what a din, didn’t last long but still in the drawer. I fitted a 120mm fan to the PSU to reduce noise. Only fans I can hear now are on the hotend. I kept the BLtouch.
Hello Mr Bonfireman,
I have noticed “Silent Mainboards” before and have wondered, “what do they do”, to make a difference to noise.
Have you a way to explain their methods ?
Many Cheers.
It uses different stepper motor driver algorithms/drivers. For that machine it really does work. I have a silent driver board for my V3KE to try out sometime.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Where you able to use any stock firmware from Creality or did you have to do a build of marlin yourself? If you used creality firmware, which version did you go with? Thanks for the feedback.
I think I used the standard BLtouch firmware, but it was a long time ago and it has been on the sonic pad for most of that time. Of the 4 on this link I think it was the bottom one
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