Creality Ender 5 review - The best Ender 3d printer?

everybody in 3d printing has heard of the end of three but this is the end of five so what's different and is it any good [Music] [Music] the end of three has become firmly established as a gateway printer for new users listed as 210 officially but commonly found for as low as 117 dollars u.s. it's not without problems but for that price it's pretty hard to beat the value but that brings us to this one the end of five so what if the other end is the enter to is quite old now about to be superseded the end of four is similar to this with the cube design but it's got quite a poor reputation and this is a newest offering that ender 5 to see exactly where it fits in with all the other reality printers and to look at the value I made this little diagram there's a lot going on here so allow me to explain what this is is Cree ala T's main f TM 3d printers from the end of 3 at 210 up to the CR 10 S 5 for $900 as listed on their website I also have listed the difference in build volume for each one you will find them cheaper by shopping around but this is really about relative differences the point here is at the end of 5 although one and a half times the price of the base end of three is still one of the cheaper FDM offerings from Cree allottee if we take the price and divide it by the build volume we end up with this this gives us a number in green the smaller the better and the more build volume you're getting for your dollar you can see that it's slightly better value than the end of 3 Pro but much better value than the next closest in price the CR 20 now obviously there's more to it than just build volume but it still compares well to other printers from Cree ality in this price range now you know where it fits in the white oak reality family and especially in terms of dollars versus build volume but realistically most people are going to compare this to the end of 3 so we'll start with that comparison it's probably more appropriate to compare it to the end of 3 Pro because it's got more shared features matching the pro it's got the certified mean world power supply it's got the C mag removable magnetic flexible bed still based on the same B slot extrusion system it's got the same hot end it's got the same extruder it's also got the same Cree allottee 1 1 3 version mainboard with the 1280 4p microcontroller and no it still doesn't have the bootloader that means for any modifications you might want to do like with the end of 3 you're going to be short microcontroller space as well as input/output pins but as I've shown with the end of three it's possible to achieve a great deal between this and to earlier end of three as I've reviewed this is the first model I've received with a flatbed so it's hunting off I'm lucky or the quality of up to there game in this department so what's different between this and the end of three well firstly it's got that added fifty millimeters of Z build volume it might have the same base like extrusion system but the arrangement is quite different in this model there's an overhead gantry that changes both for X&Y and this bed only moves up and down in the Z direction on paper at least this should mean a more rigid frame and less wobbling of the print which would help with adhesion as well as getting rid of some artifacts on tall objects such as Litha fiends it does have the same extruder but the mouth for the filament is directly underneath it so we have a straight line coming up to the extruder and in my opinion that makes it far easier to handle from what I've read there was a problem with early n to 5s and that says as soon as you turned off the power gravity would make the bed drop to the bottom which means power loss recovery was pretty much a waste of time on this model I've tested they seem to have made an improvement by adding an anti ferromagnetism you can still push it down manually but it's not going to happen by itself from gravity anymore I had a genuine power out and when I tested the power up recovery it started printing at the beginning of the first layer again I've tested this on other quality printers and it did work so I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt here one other subtle little thing that I really like is this screw up the back here to adjust your homing height imagine the scenario we've got everything leveled but your nozzle is too far away instead of having to turn all four you simply make one adjustment and the whole lot can come up or down from that position let's have a look at the unboxing and assembly of this printer for some reason I was expecting it to take longer than the end of three to put together but the good news was it was extremely simple to do probably even easier than the end of three all of the tools that I needed were provided and I had the whole thing together and printing in about half an hour I leveled the bed by moving it around manually but there is a menu option to help you find the corners and the center for this process the printer came with a set of tools some spares and a really outstanding instruction manual this is by far the best instruction manual I've ever used to put together a Chinese 3d printer beyond the assembly it also had tips for loading filament bed leveling even troubleshooting and a circuit wiring diagram for the main board there's instructions for accessing cura and any files on the SD card as well that walk me to my first print and it's this dog that was on the SD card I snapped the head off but it was completely my fault as it started to print the base was quite enormous and it was taking quite a few hours to complete that much fearing I would run out of the PLA that came on the sample spool with the printer I switched halfway through to ABS to see if it would adhere it mostly did but I still didn't have the temperature high enough for the lace to stick to each other strongly but the result is this decapitated dog but apart from that the print quality looks pretty decent now the rest of the prints I did here I did with my simplified 3d and a3 profile with the Zen height up to match this end of 5 this works flawlessly but with a quirk you can see this g-code the gamepad is facing the front corner but as it prints it comes off facing the rear all that means is that everything that you print will be rotated 180 degrees from how you see it on your slicing software I started off by testing tolerance and to do that I use this to make anything lock puzzled number 10 they can see I have three versions here the first one I did on my end of three just to set a baseline it's designed to print in place this one is separated nicely and the puzzle works as intended this version here is the one done on the end of five and I'm pleased to report it works exactly the same way print quality also remained quite good this final one was down on the Alpha wise you thirty still under review and unfortunately it's all welded shut and I've had about three goes event with always the same result next up I wanted to explore that extra build volume so we have this spiral bars and this one is scaled up to be 250 mils like you get on the standard n2 3 and this is a different set fix or 15 millimeters makes this one it's got up to 300 millimeters and once again it printed quite well extrusion seems quite consistent there is a very slight salmon skin effect on the outside next I wanted to do something really pretty and something would take overnight to print so I made this stag route out of x3d gold PLA this printer has a slightly longer Bowden tube than n2 3 so I could tune the retraction a little bit more but apart from that this thing looks absolutely beautiful my last print from PLA was this gamepad controller for the maxim a go pod project that I'm currently making this one also turned out really nice there's no warping and all the parts fit together perfectly next up I turned my attention to PE T G and I wanted to do another mechanism since the printer was doing so well with those so far this geared pencil holder was a fun print and completed once again without failure the PCG also stuck perfectly to the magnetic bed but peeled off easily when I wanted it to finally I turned my attention to TPU and this x-ray D TPU is 85 a short hardness I loaded up this little owl with only 5% in field and it printed pretty flawlessly apart from a little bit of stringing on top of the ears once again you can see some really like salmon skin effect but I think some TL smoothers would sort that up pretty comfortably and the extrusion is really even a nice otherwise but that was my printing experience it's time for the pros and cons and the biggest pro by far is the print quality and consistency of this printer it managed to print everything I throw at it without a single failed print remember this printer is completely stock and I was using a profile for another printer without tweaking it at all a few issues I had with stringing I'm pretty confident I'll be able to dial those out with just a little bit of work another bonus is definitely the additional build volume I listed as 220 by 220 but like the end of 3 you can get about to 34 to 35 millimeters on the base and all the way up to 300 for this model here the ease of assembly and the instructions was top-notch the best that I've experienced from AK reality product so far the more rigid frame is definitely a welcome addition and it should mean things like leveling the bed don't need to happen anywhere near as often I found this printer a little bit more convenient to use than some of its rivals so on-off switches at the front of the SD card the USB slot all at the front easy to access near the control panel as well although there's not too many ender fives in the wild you'll find that most of the upgrade parts for end of 3s will be compatible with these as well that includes things like the hot end the extruder cooling fan ducts adding auto bed leveling any guide that you find 4 into 3 is most like we're going to apply very similarly for this printer now on to the cons Cree LEDs website has firmware downloads for most of their printers now but the end of 5 is still missing they recently released an updated into 3 firmware with thermal runaway protection so I had high hopes for this one but disappointingly I found it was not enabled in fact this version of Merlin is based on a branch 2015 the good news is I've been doing an upgrade video for this printer and in that I'll compile the latest version of Marlin compatible with the end of five probably the final downside is with this magnetic bed it's meant to have a limit of 80 degrees and therefore you won't be able to print abs in summary I would say this unit that I've reviewed here was very consistent very user friendly and has great print quality the question is do you want to spend the extra over the end of three if you're looking for a budget model to start your journey in 3d printing I'd probably still recommend the base end of three but if you were considering spending a little bit more money perhaps on the end of three Pro I would suggest that you save a little bit more and shoot for this one here you definitely won't be disappointed objectively uncomfortable saying that there's a lot of upgrades compared to the end of three on this printer I can't really see any downsides so really it comes down to whether you want to spend the extra money over that model that brings us to the end of this review please leave your thoughts in the comment section below thank you so much for watching and until next time happy 3d printing g'day it's Michael again if you liked the video then please click like if you want to see more content like this in future click Subscribe and make sure you click on the bell to receive every notification if you really want to support the channel and see exclusive content become a patron visit my patreon page see you next time

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Keywords: 3d printing, 3d printer, 3d print, 3d printed, creality, ender 5, ender 3, ender 3 pro, review, comparison, ender 4, compared, tested, unboxing, assembly, pla, abs, cmag bed, meanwell psu, extruder, hot end, firmware, upgrade, cura, simplify3d, alfawise, u30, make anything, lock puzzle, stagroot, vase, x3d, quality control, petg, tpu, thermal runaway, marlin

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Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 07 2019