More info regarding zesty tech nimble v1
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I found the best performance I got from my V2 zesty came when I threw it in a drawer and put my ingested bowden back on.
Spent hours trying to tune that thing. Could never get rid of the banding and consistency in extrusion was elusive . Final straw was the breech going soft in an unheated enclosure.
The design just never delivered the theoretical speed benefits so I've switched to a water cooled direct drive and accepted the lower speeds. -
Wow... yeah I guess with such a small market base I never heard any feedback from customers on how the product was going. That’s quite sad to hear as the nimble has a lot of promising benefits, but sadly not enough testing to ensure a consistent and accurate product... well, I guess I need to look in another direction as far as extruders, possibly that one that @garyd9 mentioned, I like the use of the planetary gears.
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@Dakota there are many happy customers (here on the forum as well). I tried the flex3drive but I'm not overwhelmed.
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Thanks for the great feed back Gary! Yeah I just think I never heard much about the v2 as reviews are hard to come by. I might look into the project you’ve been keeping an eye on, that sounds pretty interesting. But yeah I think at this point I’m probably going to throw in the towel instead of continuing down the rabbit hole with the amount of user issues I’ve seen on these forms... tis a shame, I had high hopes for the nimble.
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Yeah I had seen that option as well, seems to me to be a little more rough on the edges than the nimble, however again finding user reviews and feed back hasn’t been a simple search for flex3drive either.
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@Dakota don't open that can of worms, I tried but people are very opinionated on those products. Either hate it or love it, but if you have any question regarding the flexdrive don't hesitate to ask.
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I have both nimble V2 and flex3drive whilst the nimble V2 has issues they claim is distortion during cooling of the injection molded gears it being a poor copy of the flex3drive there being a whole heap of story behind that I have had no issues with the flex3drive and have it on 3 printers all I would say is keep your tuning around the default spec especially with regard to acceleration and motor power lower the better
And if purchasing don't buy the SLA printed kit parts print your own if able to and buy the hardware kit, The orbiter I also have is really good highly recommend it got it back on my delta now with a lightened mount seeing how it goes. -
I perhaps should have mentioned that I have two printers with Nimble devices (don't recall the version) and I am very pleased.
I hope the v3 sees that light of day.
Frederick
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@fcwilt Frederick FYI the Zesty Discord is a closed one open only to there customers.
For what its worth I have 4 Nimbles (one of which is unused) and have had no issues with them once they have been tuned fore steps and then flow.
Doug
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@Dougal1957 said in More info regarding zesty tech nimble v1:
@fcwilt Frederick FYI the Zesty Discord is a closed one open only to there customers.
For what its worth I have 4 Nimbles (one of which is unused) and have had no issues with them once they have been tuned fore steps and then flow.
Doug
Thanks for that information.
As I mentioned I was simply using the link I was given - I missed they part that they only gave them to customers.
Frederick
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@Dougal1957 said in More info regarding zesty tech nimble v1:
@fcwilt Frederick FYI the Zesty Discord is a closed one open only to there customers.
For what its worth I have 4 Nimbles (one of which is unused) and have had no issues with them once they have been tuned fore steps and then flow.
Doug
Doug, I'm not sure that the nimbles that you have are relevant to the discussion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't your nimbles, for the most part, pre-release beta parts? It seemed that none of the v2 beta testers had the same ripple problems that a large majority of people had with the full release version. That would suggest that the "beta" versions are somehow different from the "public" versions.
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@garyd9 nope there not pre release parts (one of the V2's was but the other 3 were not).
I have a V1 Sidewinder (Unused) a V1 and 2 V2's none of which have caused me any grief at all I can however induce the so called ripple by adjust my Flow rate ore steps which is why I said once I had them Tuned.
Guess I have just been lucky with mine
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@Dougal1957 said in More info regarding zesty tech nimble v1:
I can however induce the so called ripple by adjust my Flow rate ore stepsJOOC what sort of adjustments did you make? Was it by trial and error?
Thanks.
Frederick
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@fcwilt yes if the ripple is in an upward direction reduce steps or flow and vice versa
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@Dougal1957 said in More info regarding zesty tech nimble v1:
@fcwilt yes if the ripple is in an upward direction reduce steps or flow and vice versa
That's interesting and I have to admit that I'm a bit jealous that it worked out on yours. Mine was one where no amount of adjustment would solve the problems. When I increased or reduced flow (steps/mm) on my v2, it didn't have any noticeable impact on rippling (and inconsistent extrusion overall) until there were obvious signs of under or over extrusion.
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@Dougal1957 said in More info regarding zesty tech nimble v1:
@fcwilt yes if the ripple is in an upward direction reduce steps or flow and vice versa
Thanks.
I assume by ripple you mean the faint "sloped" pattern that appears on some prints?
I will try your suggestions although that artifact has never troubled me. I only print functional parts where appearance is of little import.
Frederick
