Best Creality 3D Printer? Creality Ender 5 vs Creality Ender 5 Plus

the under five versus the under five plus what's the big difference we're gonna find out today my name is Jim and this is the edge of tech so one of the biggest questions I get on my channel through comments and email and chat is what the difference is between the end of five and the under five plus both of these machines have been out for quite a while but a lot of people still don't quite understand what the differences are or are doing their research and they would like to see it in person so I thought I'd make a quick video and show you the differences firsthand on the end or five and the under five plus so the first thing we're gonna talk about is size it is very apparent that the Ender 5 looks much smaller than the under 5 plus in fact if we take a tape measure and we measure how much space you'll need on a table side-to-side you'll actually need roughly about 26 inches to be safe and you'll want that because you want the spool to clear and everything from the side remember this is going to be wider because the spool holder is actually on the side if you look at the under five plus the spool holder sits inside the frame back here and that makes it actually a little tighter of a footprint so like I said we'll need like 26 inches wide on the under five but if you look at the under five plus we're gonna need 24 inches to clear everything so this is about two feet cubed on the table that's what you're gonna need and if we go tall here you're probably gonna need roughly about the same to clear that we'll call it 26 inches just to be safe you have a little clearance in there in case you have a shelf or something so we got 26 wide 26 tall and remember this can come down a little bit so you could probably get away with 25 or 24 and a half you want to make sure you have enough clearance up there so if we look at the under five plus you're probably gonna need around 30 inches to give that Bowden tube some good clearance there if you're gonna put it on a shelf or something so it's definitely taller it's a bigger machine now if you want to talk about how deep it is you're roughly gonna need about 20 inches deep on the under five here and that's just to clear the stepper motor that's in the back and your pulleys that are up front here now on the under five plus remember the spool sits inside of the frame so you're probably only going to need say twenty six inches deep on this one and that kind of gives you an idea of the frame sizes so this one that while it is smaller it takes up a good sized footprint because of that side mounted spool and it definitely needs some clearance for your Bowden tubes up top just like you will up here as well now the next thing I want to talk about is the actual build area the amount of volume you get to build a print on both these machines the Ender five is 220 by 220 by 300 the under five plus is 350 by 350 by 400 so you get a hundred more millimeters tall here and you get one hundred and thirty more millimeters wide to show you what that looks like this is the difference in the build plates so this is the under five build plate this is the under five Plus build plate these are not to build surfaces that came with these machines because I've upgraded them in the past with my videos and everything but they are the same sizes so as you can see the under five plus gives you a lot more space in the under five on the build surface itself and being four hundred tall this really is a big build surface to use that being said if you don't have space for a giant printer like this this is a really good print size so these can actually be pushed to 235 millimeters on the bed size all of my under three and under five machines I use 235 not this not the factory 220 there's actually enough room to do that on these and the factory underestimates a little bit on the size of their beds I know you guys are gonna ask so this right here is a th 3d flex plate with a th really easy mat on it I love this combination and this right here is the th 3d easy flex 2 system for the under 5 plus both of those links will be in the description below something else to look at is the screens on these 2 machines this one is the stock screen it's just like the under three it is a push button here and you scroll with the wheel and that's the screen that comes on the end your five so normally on the end your five plus there's a touchscreen that comes with it I actually swapped that screen out for a different one you can see the video here if you want to check that out but normally the under five plus does come with a touch screen from the factory and it's pretty decent it just it kind of limits what you can actually do the both hot ends on these machines are identical they're both the same hot end the same stock cooling and the same boat and set up both of these actually come with plastic extruders from the factory the Ender 5 Pro which is another model of your under 5 comes with a metal extruder and Capricorn tubing and a silent board if you're looking for that so something else that's different is the board's between the two so the Ender 5 usually comes with either 1 1 4 or a 1 1 5 create a board and that's the one you see right here the under 5 plus actually came with this one right here and this is a crowd II version 2.2 board so if you look at these they're definitely different that's the under 5 and this is the under 5 + board so they're definitely different boards but you can get them both in the silent version which is really cool matter of fact the under 5 pro which is another version of the under 5 comes with a silent board creo decels the silent board for for both printers if you're looking to keep it silent and that's something else you can do one thing to note on the under 5 + it does come with factory filament run out detection so if your filament gets cut or stops coming through you'll be able to fix the filament or change your filament if you ran out and then continued the print that's a really cool feature I love filament run out for those long prints especially on a big machine like this another thing to note is the under 5 has a single Zi and it's a cantilever bed here so your Z rod runs up the back here your bed connects and it kind of floats the under 5 + actually comes with dual z1 on each side so it has Drive motors on each side that help push that really big bed up and down so that's something else that a lot of people really like is the dual Z on the under 5 + but that being said I've never had any issues with my under 5 with that single Z either as far as storage goes they both use a microSD card the under five slots in right here and the SD card goes in upside down and it sits right in this slot here the under five plus also uses a micro SD card and it goes right in the side slot on the side right there so both of them can use the same micro SD cards so if you had to you could go back and forth if you need it to the end your five plus actually comes with a BL touch from the factory so you can do auto bed leveling right from the factory it has a very good guide on how to set that up they've updated their firmware a couple times and it's getting better it's not perfect but it's getting better far as the under five goes there is no auto bed leveling from the factory but you can always add BL touch or an easy ABL all of my other under fives have easy APL's on them because they're very simple to add to the under five here they both use the wheels underneath here for bed leveling I would always tram the bed before you do any auto battle leveling anyway just to be safe both of these printers can be used with octo print I use these both with octo print and I love it both of these can take a mean whale power supply if you want to put the meanwhile power supply in them and they use a lot of the same parts the biggest difference is obviously the size the under five plus visually but even bigger is the build plate size if you're looking for a large build plate 350 by 350 by 400 the Ender 5 plus is an excellent choice if you don't need such a big build plate if you're only looking for like 2 35 by 2 35 by 300 the under 5 is a great choice as well both print awesome all you have to do is dial them in just like any other printer and they both print very good both of these when you put them together they're they're a box they go together almost perfectly from the factory when you put them together they're super simple to put together I really haven't had any issues with the under-five at all as far as build quality or anything like that the under 5 + same thing and went together very easy right from the box it was very quick to put together I think the biggest downfall for the under 5 plus is actually the firmware that comes on it like I said they've upgraded it a couple times but the firmware that comes on it does need a little bit of help and I'm hoping the newer ones are better mine not so much I had to flash it right away actually now it has the th 3d firmware it got rid of that touchscreen and you can see that video right here if you haven't seen that video yet both of mine actually came with thermal runaway enabled on it which I was very surprised about I can't say that for every single one out there but I can tell you the ones I got both had thermal runaway enabled on it so that was awesome if it was me and you were getting your very first 3d printer and you had the budget myself I would go for an ender five in my opinion it's the best starting 3d printer it prints great right out of the box it's super simple to put together and there's a very big community around it this would also be a great second printer as well just because it is such a great machine I have a couple under 3s and I love them but the under fives are my go-to now now the under five plus if you have a little more budget and you're looking for a bigger build surface you saw the difference earlier in the video the under five plus another great choice just be prepared to tinker a little bit and maybe dial in the firmware in the bed leveling with the under five plus but once you get it dialed in it is awesome it prints great I would highly suggest both if you got the budget and you're looking for a smaller printer under five if you have the budget and you're looking for a bigger build surface I would definitely go for the under five plus I absolutely love it both of these have a ton of upgrades out there because they've been out for a while printable and buyable upgrades that you can do pretty much everything on from linear rails to different hot ends to a whole bunch of printable parts like I've done videos on in the past and that's gonna be awesome on both printers because you right out of the gate you can do whatever you want to these things so we've talked about the size and the build volume and what kind of sets them apart and how they're similar and the different boards that are in them and I think we got a pretty good comparison of what the difference is between the under five and the under five plus if you have one of these let me know in the comments below if you're looking to get one tell me which one you're looking at and why because I'd love to hear it I hope you guys learn something and as always keep printing hey everybody if you liked the video give me that thumbs up hit that subscribe button right down here if you haven't done that already and hit that little bell over here if you want to get notified next time we go live on Monday nights at 6 p.m. central for hot makes or when we put a video out like this thank you so much for visiting the Chan if you haven't seen the end your five plus playlists check it out right up here that'll actually go through everything we've done with the under five plus this far

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Length: 11min 16sec (676 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 30 2020