Another "what toolhead" Q

[Ryan_M]

Should I go with the tried 'n' true SB? or something else?

- Making a Voron 2.4 250mm (actually 235mm since I already have mic6 plate, but keeping 250 frame dims)
- want CAN
- want TAP
- don't care about speed, print quality is the priority
- going to run Monolith AWD... I already have the extra bits in the parts bucket and I like the looks of it. From what I understand I'll still benefit from the shorter belt lengths and better control so there's that.
- never touch PLA, mostly print ABS/ASA, but want to get into some more advanced filaments like cf-nylon
- I want to be able to swap hotends easily without having to do complete teardowns

No doubt I forgot some key piece of information! Thanks for any input

 

[Oliver1975]

If you are going AWD then you want speed and therefore a lighter weight toolhead than the SB. I would recommend the Xol which I plan on switching to myself within the next couple of months but there are MANY alternative toolheads out there

 

[shiftingtech]

I'm so confused by the juxtaposition of "I don't care about speed" and "going to run monolith awd".

 

[Ryan_M]

I'm so confused by the juxtaposition of "I don't care about speed" and "going to run monolith awd".

Well it's $0 extra, I like the looks of it, and I've read people reporting improved print quality keeping the same print speed - likely due to the effective halving of the belt length. Are you saying stock would give better print quality over the monolith?

My Ender3 that ive done a few upgrades to (including a SB) happily chugs away at 5mm³/s max and gives me pretty nice and reliable prints - for an ender. If I can increase that to 10mm³/s wit hthe 2.4 then that's plenty for me.

 

[shiftingtech]

Awd adds a notable amount of difficulty to the build (properly synching the awd motors is a whole thing), and the reason for doing awd is all about ludicrous speeds/accelerations.

I am unaware of claims that awd provides quality benefits (before ludicrous speed territory)