You know, we’ve had the E3D Lite6 in our hands since like a week before their release. We’re only just now getting around to mounting them on the DeltaMaker. I initially thought we couldn’t do it because our firmware would just stop if it didn’t detect a touch probe, but realized later that we could just auto bed map with a regular hot end, and swap out with the E3D after and maintain the bed map…oversight on my part.
But we’ve got at least one machine printing with a Lite6 now. 
whatcha think? Hows it doing?
Brilliantly so far. Better top infill quality than the nozzles we are using currently. Trying to integrate some auto bed mapping stuff into a mount, so that we can move forward on hot ends.
Very happy with mine as well, extremely crisp printing performance. The fan is a must. Managed to overheat it to 285 once in the middle of a print, didn’t realize for about 10 minutes, it kept printing for another 4 hours without missing a beat. Swapped out the ptfe like 3 days later and good as new
seems unanimous havent heard one single negative review.
@Addidis_no That’s E3D in a nutshell for you. My chimeras are performing spectacularly as well. I have 2 of them side by side for a total of 4 nozzles (Marlin release branch only supports 3) and I did my first 3 nozzle print a few days ago, just some small intertwined puzzle-like pieces, but the alignment is spot on. I never expected bowden performance to be this good, even after a lot of tuning.
For a bowden setup, what advantage does their all-metal version have over the PTFE-tubed Lite? Higher print temps?
@Tim_Visible all E3Ds lite and pro use ptfe tubing in one way or another.
In the lite the tube is contacting the nozzle inside the heater block so we are limited to the temp it can withstand which is ~245 C.
Everything non-lite can go up to 300C with the supplied thermistor or higher with a thermocouple because the ptfe is higher up only touching the heatbreak which is being cooled actively and thoroughly.
It’s a great product. I’ve got several and started using them for kits a couple of months back. A couple of them in the farm have experienced heat distortion on the liner in the block with heavy duty cycles. (12-14 hrs/day, 6 sometimes 7 days a week) The first one I installed to test the week they came out has been doing the heavy cycles since day 1, no issues. Overall an excellent experience.
I broke the first one I got, and the assembly is a bit fiddly, but it’s a great hotend!
I’ve been using my lite6 for a couple of weeks now with several 10-15 hours prints, and it performs exceptionally well. Lines are crisp and flow is super steady!
They recommend you turn down the max pwm in marlin to avoid heating too fast, which makes it hard for my setup to stay at 200C on small parts. While in the direct airflow from the bed fan it only stays at 190-195c. Maybe i should do an auto pid with the fan on?
I’ll be buying more of them in the future for sure!
