vorondesignlover
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Hello to all,
I'm preparing to build my first Voron 2.4 R2 350mm with CANBus and the top rated mods the community recommends (Rapido V2 UHF PT1000, high voltage motors, Galileo 2, Beacon, ADXL345).
I'm stuck with the choice of the right control board. Recently I've even opened a thread, but at that time I used a Fly Gemini V3 as a standard of measurement and people quickly recommended to stick with Octopus due to the limitations.
However, as soon as I had chance to get more into this I had to face limitations even with Octopus. I found an alternative board and I decided to open a new thread particularly focused on CANBus.
Problem is that the Octopus does not support native CANBbus (CAN-FD). Communication can only occur through an USB adapter or RJ11. Not sure what of the twos is worse.
Even the Max EZ variant still uses a XH2.54 Pin interface which, if I have understood well, is not going to be any better than the other two interfaces. I also checked Manta M8P V2 which seems to use the same XH2.54 Pin interface.
A friend from the community said that now 2240 drivers should be the way to go instead of 2209. I'm not sure they're intended to also replace 5160 (voltage seems limited to 36V). While I was looking for CANBus boards I was surprised to see this one from Mellow:
If i connect one to Octopus I feel like I'm going to lose most of the benefits.
So, while I was looking for boards I found Mellow Fly Pro X10 wich is going to cost pretty much the same as Octopus (included the Super Pro):
The bad news is that seems to run a customized (and closed source) version of Klipper. This is usually more than enough for me to abort and look for something else, but I wonder if I should do an exception and close an eye. I'm focused on CANBus and didn't checked the other features, but I expect many great features unlocked and work very well when paired with their CANBus board.
What you think, guys? Is there a better approach or some other board I missed out?
It appears to be that most of you use BTT, so I must admit I don't feel safe with this route.
Thanks
I'm preparing to build my first Voron 2.4 R2 350mm with CANBus and the top rated mods the community recommends (Rapido V2 UHF PT1000, high voltage motors, Galileo 2, Beacon, ADXL345).
I'm stuck with the choice of the right control board. Recently I've even opened a thread, but at that time I used a Fly Gemini V3 as a standard of measurement and people quickly recommended to stick with Octopus due to the limitations.
However, as soon as I had chance to get more into this I had to face limitations even with Octopus. I found an alternative board and I decided to open a new thread particularly focused on CANBus.
Problem is that the Octopus does not support native CANBbus (CAN-FD). Communication can only occur through an USB adapter or RJ11. Not sure what of the twos is worse.
Even the Max EZ variant still uses a XH2.54 Pin interface which, if I have understood well, is not going to be any better than the other two interfaces. I also checked Manta M8P V2 which seems to use the same XH2.54 Pin interface.
A friend from the community said that now 2240 drivers should be the way to go instead of 2209. I'm not sure they're intended to also replace 5160 (voltage seems limited to 36V). While I was looking for CANBus boards I was surprised to see this one from Mellow:
If i connect one to Octopus I feel like I'm going to lose most of the benefits.
So, while I was looking for boards I found Mellow Fly Pro X10 wich is going to cost pretty much the same as Octopus (included the Super Pro):
The bad news is that seems to run a customized (and closed source) version of Klipper. This is usually more than enough for me to abort and look for something else, but I wonder if I should do an exception and close an eye. I'm focused on CANBus and didn't checked the other features, but I expect many great features unlocked and work very well when paired with their CANBus board.
What you think, guys? Is there a better approach or some other board I missed out?
It appears to be that most of you use BTT, so I must admit I don't feel safe with this route.
Thanks
