Last week I took the bait and bought some esun pla+ from an Amazon.de sale.

I normally print with Colorfabb of Prusament. Almost for 5y now and never had real issues, especially not with the Prusa Mini.

But now, I loaded a fresh rol and it just… was awful: under extrusion galore even in the first layer! A lot of clicking and clacking… just 😒

I read somewhere their filament comes “wet”… pretty convenient that they also sell… overpriced dryers right?!

Anyway I’m going to build a dryer now. Hoping that resolved the issues and this wasn’t all money wasted… sigh

Anyway I was wondering if someone else had the same issues? Or experience with this brand? How can you know that it’s dried enough? Or can it really only be with testing?

I’m investing in a mk4 soon, this has a direct drive, instead of a Bowden. Will this be less of an issue? I mean I know about the quality issues I was just thinking about that it seems like it just cannot pass properly, through … and I forgot how it’s named: the thingie that feeds the filament.

Anyway if anything: be cautious with that brand. I wish I had read some more before buying it, I trusted the reviews to much I guess

Anyway sorry for the long kinda rand post… it has been… a challenging week… 🤟

  • mycelium_underground@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I love esun pla+, I do dry all my filaments before using them and store them with large bags of desiccant (I bought it in bulk and use small zipper mesh bags that were sold for fish tank filter media) so I don’t really know how it prints out of the box.

    What’s your hotend temperature?

    • Gompje@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      From what I remember it was 215 first and then 210 other layers. But I tried tweaking when printing and didn’t notice a difference. It was like the extruder could not grasp the filament correctly. I even tested with the speed but it kept clicking, its like it couldn’t grasp it

      That said the yellow was good for the first layer, but then the green was a complete NO. I am now drying the yellow and hope it will print.

      I never had to dry filament before. This is the dryest room in my home and we do not live in a “wet air” climate. EU, Belgium. at least not anymore, and not inside. Never had any issues … except now with this Chinese PLA.

      we’ll see 🤞

      That said I’m using the default profile for the filament from Prusa. Gotten so used to “it just works” I kinda forgot that … well to tweak more. lol

      What temps do you use?

      • ottk3@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        For the eSUN PLA+ I’m using 210°C for all layers and a consistent bed temp of 60°C.

        Still using a 0.4 nozzle and a 0.2 layer height.