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here's another printer I bought for
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myself for the sake of having hands on
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with it so at least I have a solid point
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of reference for future printer reviews
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and whilst many people out there will
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probably be looking at the A1 as the
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starter printer and the X1 Carbon as the
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elite printer I worry that the p1s gets
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ignored by more people than it should be
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because for most people this is quite
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easily the best all round Choice amongst
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the whole bamboo range let me show you
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why I think this is hi I'm Ross and this
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is fire Hammer videos let me get it out
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of the way first the p1s and the P1 are
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exactly the same printer in terms of B
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Hardware functionality and other than a
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flying overview I'm not covering that
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again in this video so if you haven't
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already watched my p1p video I suggest
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you go back and watch that first the
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highlights are that this is a core XY
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bamboo printer with a build volume of
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256 mm cubed and I specifically called
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out that this is a bamboo printer
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because if you like me and just want to
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focus on printing things rather than
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spending Forever Learning how a printer
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works and configur ing it bamboo are in
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a class of their own aside the A1 Mini
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this is currently the standard build
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size on bamboo printers at least until
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they give us the bigger one that we all
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want it'll come I'm sure but when that
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is is anyone's guess this is a slightly
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faster printer than the A1 series due to
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it being a core XY with no horizontal
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bed movement printer kept a little more
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stable during printing which should lead
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to fewer failures or at least slightly
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faster prints thanks to the improved
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stability but bear in mind I said should
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and slightly faster it's not a huge
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difference but it's a difference the
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main benefit I have with it is that it's
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just much tidier to have everything
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within this body style and that I don't
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need to have clearance behind the
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printer on my desktop for it to print
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like the P1 this also has a built-in
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light and camera and it'll capture time
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lapses throughout your printing process
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along with allowing you to remotely
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access to view prints live should you
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want to check on them from a different
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room it's not the smoothest live video
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but you can at least detect obvious
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failures and this is a bamboo printer so
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just like all others bamboo will hold
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your hand from the second you open the
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box to your first print just scan the QR
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code watch the unboxing video as you
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perform the same steps boot it up let
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the printer calibrate itself and choose
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from one of the many internal files just
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to get you started now the website
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claims 15 minutes setup and now that
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I've done one I'm confident I could do
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the next one in about that much time AMS
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and all but going in blind as I did and
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as you likely will I'd give yourself a
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good 30 minutes to an hour from cutting
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the Box open to starting your first
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print and I got the combo unit which
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comes with one AMS module this set comes
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with about 200 g of bamboo filament
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along with a small amount of support for
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PLA and I really should try a print
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using support material at some point
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I've just never gotten round to it the
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whole point of this is it doesn't stick
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as much as pla sticks to pla anyway
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thanks to this out of box approach along
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with the filament provided bamboo have
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nailed it when it comes to First
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Impressions gone are the days of what
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the am I doing wrong just to get
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something to stick to the build plate if
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you don't have a successful print out of
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the box with a bamboo printer then you
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probably ignored one or more of the
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setup steps or unfortunately you may
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have a faulty printer thankfully though
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if it's the latter the printer will most
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likely tell you what the issue is and
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it'll direct you to a page with a guide
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on how to resolve that issue if you
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bought a printer from another brand it
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would be a case of going to a Facebook
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or Reddit page for that brand and
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describe the issue as best you can and
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hope for a response and again it's about
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how you've communicated your issue and
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you may not even know the correct words
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or terms for a particular problem now
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when it comes to differences between the
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p1p and the p1s the most obvious one is
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the chassis the p1s is mostly an
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enclosed version of the p1p in fact you
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can pretty much turn any p1p into a p1s
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by purchasing the p1p enclosure kit the
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only difference I can see between the
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p1p and the p1s is that if you add this
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kit to the p1p is that the activated
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carbon filter is a separate item while
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the p1s comes with it this is a separate
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optional purchase for some reason but
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this kit gives you the plastic side
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panels a cable chain the glass door and
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lid along with internal fans for part
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Cooling and control board Cooling and a
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chamber temp temperature regulator fan
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too so with all that what's the actual
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benefit of the p1s over the p1p well
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honestly it's the temperature regulation
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and part cooling but that's about it
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part cooling should help a bit when
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bridging materials as it cools and goes
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rigid in the air rather than drooping
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and for temperature regulation when
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printing with pla which is typically 3D
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printing in Easy Mode you need to take
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the glass lid off the printer in order
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to keep the printing environment a bit
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cooler and that's because pla melt under
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cooler temperatures than most other
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filament materials the benefit of an
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enclosed printer is for those of you who
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want the option of printing stronger
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materials like ABS or ASA these
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materials can be a pain in the ass to
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print with and honestly for most
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applications I use printer for nice
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models or the few functional Parts I've
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made like storage cases pla is more than
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enough ABS can be a nightmare because
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just the slightest temperature change
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can completely ruin a print so an
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unenclosed printer like the P1
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could struggle with these materials
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because the slightest Breeze just as you
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walk past it can be a problem the p1s or
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a p1p upgraded to the p1s keeps the
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printing environment temperature
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regulated by using the fan to vent the
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chamber as it starts to get too hot so
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the question is do you need the p1s over
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the p1p if you never have plans to print
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with abs or anything of the like well
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honestly the main reason for me or at
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least how I Justified it to myself is
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that I don't know what what the future
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will bring just because I'm not printing
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with abs or ASA now doesn't mean I won't
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want to in the future maybe I'll print
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some garden ornaments and considering
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ASA is designed to be like ABS but with
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much more UV resistance that'll be a
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good choice for then if it ever comes
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but honestly I just think it looks like
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a neater and more Complete product and
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having the enclosure is just a little
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bit more secure in that I'm not worried
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my kids are going to stick their hands
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inside the unit when it's on and it's
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hot but really the main Fe feature of
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the P1 and X1 range are the AMS units I
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bought this p1s as a combo kit which
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means that you get an AMS unit in the
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set and this comes packaged inside the
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printer bamboo actually have different
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setup video guides for the printers with
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and without AMS units but the QR code on
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the box will show you the right one the
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AMS unit sits neatly on top of the
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printer and you can cable it into the
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filament buffer on the back and then you
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cable that box to another port on the
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printer itself and you can connect up to
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four AMS units to any current P1 or X1
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but to do this you need to buy three
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more AMS units and the separate four
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feed AMS Hub too whilst each AMS unit
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has its own PTFE tube to feed filament
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into the Hub only one unit has a data
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cable connected the rest are daisy chain
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to each other and I must say I love the
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AMS units yes when changing colors there
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is a bit of waste and when it does this
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it drops The Purge filament out the back
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of the printer which is why the first
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thing I printed was a poopy shoe for the
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back but to help save wasted filament
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I've actually done some investigation
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and made a couple of shorts on how you
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can save a ton of this waste and really
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cut it down to a minimum I'll link to
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the first of the three short videos in
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the description below and you can get an
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instant win with your AMS by watching
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them now where these are better than the
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AMS light units is once again that well
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these are enclosed one of the worst
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things you can do to any filament is
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leave it out in the open where it can
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absorb moisture and with the AMS light
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units you don't really have much of a
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choice now when I first started fdm
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printing I honestly couldn't believe
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that Plastics can absorb moisture until
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I started doing this but moist filament
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can lead to anything from blobs in your
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print as it builds up and Flash boils in
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the hot end to making your filament
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brittle and snap before it even gets
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into the PTF tube and whilst these
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enclosed AMS units have no heating
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element inside them to bake off the
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moisture there are two recesses at the
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back where you get two desicant bags and
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that's to help saave off moisture
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Builder but the better option is
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printing yourself some AMS dry boxes and
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filling them with some reusable desicant
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I actually printed these ones on my p1p
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and there are a ton of different designs
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out there I just like these as it let me
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fill the whole Space of the AMS and
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there was a matching design which
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allowed me to fit a cheap hydrometer in
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the middle so that I can actually
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monitor it and anything below 20%
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moisture is normally fine but I've been
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able to get mine down to 10% and it's
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still there and and the good thing about
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these desicant beads is they turn green
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as moisture is absorbed and it explains
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on the back of the bottle how to put
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them in the microwave or oven when you
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need to reactivate them and reuse them
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just make sure you first remove them
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from the printed dry box because that's
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obviously going to melt in the oven but
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the best feature of the AMS units for me
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though is that changing a reel of
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filament is little more than pushing the
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end of a different reel into the hole in
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the AMS unit now without this you need
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to heat up the hot end extract the old
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reel keep it hot manually Purge the new
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reel through and that wastes about as
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much as the AMS units will do during a
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color change but that manual process
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alone is often for me enough of a
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barrier to entry that I can totally
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avoid with an AMS unit which means I'm
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more likely to be getting on with my
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next print than procrastinating over the
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effort of a real change and so far I've
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spent most of my time with this printer
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printing upgrades for my various other
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bamboo printers I printed a nice little
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box for the SWAT that I got with my A1
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and A1 Mini and I love this it's just
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it's super neat and tidy and even has
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the bamboo logo embedded within the box
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and that's thanks to the AMS unit's
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multicolor option and I also printed
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another box to hold all my bamboo extras
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in again this is logoed and the hinges
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are in bamboo green unfortunately though
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the hinges for this type of box are just
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well they're awful and they just don't
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work at all in fact I've honestly no
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idea why so many storage box designs
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online are remixes of this style of
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container because the hinges on the
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little filament box are just so much
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better but then I continued printing
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more random things that were on the
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internal memory card of the printer that
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I hadn't printed already on my a1s or my
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p1p or my X1 mostly stuff that has
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multiple colors and that's things like
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this diameter measuring tool and some
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bamboo lab Badges and a bamboo lab
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scraper and it's worth noting that the
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blades for this scraper come in the box
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with the printer so it's kind of a
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necessary print and I also printed
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something called a bamboo lab sticker
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applicator and I have got no idea what
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this is or what it does so if you can
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enlighten me please pop a comment below
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the video now I did say in my p1p video
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that one of the small issues I had with
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these printers unlike the A1 or the X1
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range is that due to the small monocrome
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display you couldn't actually see what
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any of these included models look like
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before you printed them but it turns out
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there's actually a full page on the
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bamboo Wiki which shows them all anyway
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and when I think back of course there is
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this is bamboo and they do sensible
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things to make it easier for us the user
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so of course they already had a solution
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to the tiny arguably irrelevant most
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people issue that I noticed in that
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review so here's the thing I guess 90%
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of the people out there probably don't
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need this much printer you get the same
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build area and the same user experience
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arguably better with the likes of the A1
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so where the P1 series shines to me in
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terms of functionality for someone who
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just wants their printer to work is is
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more about the ability to upgrade it and
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add up to four enclosed AMS units and
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print with up to 16 colors continuously
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and I love that it's a modular process
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to go on this journey from the P1 to the
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p1s to then having the AMS upgrades you
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can if you wish just start with a p1p
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upgrade that with an enclosure kit that
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pretty much makes it a p1s then add some
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AMS units and add three more if and when
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you want them but the reason i' probably
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recommend people start here is because
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if I don't have a specific reason to
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have the p1p which would be a fine
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choice for a more technical user or
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perhaps somebody with a print farm with
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this alone I'd have a neat tidy and I
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think sexy machine that will sit pretty
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and print almost anything I could
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possibly throw at it and unless you're
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printing proper engineering grade
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materials in which case why are you
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watching my review this is also the easy
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pick over the X1 Carbon 2 I want to say
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thanks for watching and a huge Thanks
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goes out to our members whose names are
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up in lights now because they make it
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possible for us to keep making these
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videos and it's just it's that sort of
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encouragement that keeps me going
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because God this takes a lot of time to
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do but seriously why not consider
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joining them there should be a button
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below this video unless you're on iOS in
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which case yeah they block it so you'll
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have to have a look on a computer but I
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want to thank you for watching and if
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this was helpful in anyway just to give
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you an overview of why this might be a
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better option for you maybe it's not the
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right option for you in this video
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ideally a comment to boost the algorithm
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notification Bell that'll be brilliant
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you do you I'd love it if you could you
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don't have to but it'd be really great
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if you did until next time rubber baby
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