Chinese SmoothieBoard Clones - Experience?
Tom wrote 03/01/2017 at 19:46 • 0 pointsSo, I'm thinking about replacing the Replicator-style electronics in my CTC 3D printer with a smoothieboard. It turns out you can get a smoothieboard from a European supplier for €186 (http://robotseed.com/index.php?id_product=13&controller=product&id_lang=2) ... or you can get one from Aliexpress for less than $45, shipped (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3Dpriter-Smoothieware-controller-board-MKS-SBASE-V1-2-opensource-32bit-Smoothieboard-Arm-support-Ethernet-preinstalled-heatsinks/32641747720.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.11.zdZijO&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_100005...).
Has anyone got experience with these? Are they any good? Anything to look out for?
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The smoothie project does not recommend them.. even though they are compatible you will have a board with relatively poor support and you aren't making the only people willing/competent to help happy by buying it. There are other clones also that are cheaper than the Smoothieboard itself and they're totally ok if you use those ... just specifically MKS apparently draws alot of ire from the smoothieware community.
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