Old hotend board replacement for V3 Plus

Ender-3 V3 Printers
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Hi. I have a Creality 3 V3 Plus, and I’m searching for what I’m learning is the old style hotend board. Specifically the back portion. I ordered a replacement, but did not realize that the new version has a 4 pin connector on one side, and a 2 pin on the other. Making it incompatible with my machine, which has a 4 pin connector on both sides, as you can see from the image below. I’ve included the front of the board for reference as well.

I’ve searched for a while now. Various websites, many Creality specific, and cannot find anyone selling it. I’ve been back and forth with customer service as well, and if you’ve had that experience, you already know how frustrating it is.

So if anyone has suggestions of where else I may be able to find one, I’m all ears. Amazon, AliExpress, Ebay, the Creality store just to name a few have nothing but the newer version. Which is wild to me. I’ve had the printer maybe two years, and it’s worked for 106 hours. Honestly, it’s more a project in stubbornness in trying to get it working again. I’ve already moved on to another one. May just give this to my niece and nephew if I can get it working.

Thanks.

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You can try getting 2pin fan and pair with new board? As typically if there new board revision its will be much harder to find older boards, as new board being made/order will be newer board.

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Admittedly, I didn’t think of replacing the fan. It’s been tiring replacing part after part and seeing what they just decide to change. New motherboard is missing slots for cables as well, and it’s the same #. I’ll try the fan next time I feel like messing with it. I moved on to another brand long ago. Getting this thing working has been a project of frustration and stubbornness.