E5+ evolution

[sharp grove]

After printing the top cover for the electrical enclosure I was inspired to get to work on a printable enclosure. I've looked at the beta and it's beautiful and all but to go a full frame build I will just start from scratch if I do the beta.
I have a few pictures of my ender 5 mod and still got more changes to make so figured I'd share them in a build log instead of spamming the chat thread. So here goes...

I had placed my order with DREMC for my Merc 1.1 motion kit and had been gutting an ender 5 and printing ABS parts on my ender 5s1. I was chuffed the day my parcels arrived.

I had built my toolhead but something was amiss.

...then another visit from the postman and my BOM was complete 😁

Slowly things were coming together

There were some rough beginnings but after countless calibration cubes and tinkering I got a decent print

I always try to resolve myself but the help from the community when I have been stuck has been amazing

Warpedscale had just shared his printable enclosure panels so I began on printing that

This led me to have a crack at continuing to print a printer enclosure

I had to fight to get a panel from the build plate and broke it in the process but I am happy the fit and tolerances are about spot on first try

I plan on making panels for left and right side and back then probably having an acrylic door and I am undecided on a plan for a hat

I have a nevermore ready to roll and can't wait to get printing larger ABS parts

[gentle snow]

Where are you planning on putting the nevermore in this build?

[sharp grove]

I haven't got to thinking about that yet, I have heard they are good near the bed to increase temperatures; do you have any suggestions?

[gentle snow]

Haha I wish, literally tagging along to consider putting one on my enclosure project.

[sharp grove]

ah ok, I think I will look at mounting it beneath the bed carriage

[sharp grove]

A couple more bits came in the mail today... ZeroG PEI sheet with magnet and BTT HDMI7 klipper screen🎉
Perfect timing because the PETG side panel has taken a chunk out of the glass bed, kinda sucks a bit still because I was liking the glossy finish of the first layer off polished glass. William at Fysetc on Ali is a legend, asked if he could sell the sheet seperated from the mains powered bed and he sorted me out in no time, post to Australia has been fast too. BTT and Mellow Aliexpress stores have always been good too.

I bought the PCB Klicky and sexbolt then got a bit worried in trusting autoz not to crash my beloved Rapido so have stuck with BLtouch and putting up with its rattle for now.
I also bought the Mellow/ ZeroG toolhead carriage and Funssor CAN version of the IDM scanner. Once the IDM scanner comes I will change to the CNC carriage

...also think I will change to a 2015 hotend fan if the Rapido fan mount from vzbot GitHub page fits the rapido2

[sharp grove]

Klipperscreen working, kiuah makes it so easy 🙂

Until now I had been using the mobileraker android app or logging in to the web interface on my phone or pc. I had initially bought a smaller tft35 with rotary encoder but to my surprise it did not support klipper.

[sharp grove]

Mount for HDMI7 done

One side of the enclosure fitted with panels

After a couple of failed prints I ran out of fillament to finish printing the centre peice that ties the panels together and could add about 1.5mm to the height of top to bottom. It will fill or cover easily tho.

Thinking about it I am probably not saving much at all vs acrylic side panels but I do like printing parts for my printer

[sharp grove]

I've gone and built a whole new seperate toolhead, plan is to get the beta enclosure frame and another motion kit next pay to begin on a 2nd mercury hydra build with all the bells and whistles. This toolhead has the Rapido1 UHF with 2510 hotend fan, 5015 blower, ZeroG/mellow CNC vzbot carriage, and CNC mini Sherpa again. I have the knockoff CAN IDM scanner for it; I know it's probably not good to support but arrgh, I really wanted CANBUS. It will go on the current build for now and transfer to my Merc MK2 when I get it built.

[sharp grove]

Another side enclosed. I got it to fit better and got it printed with less than 1kg of fillament. Printed with cfpetg. I think I will redo the other side with the same filament and proper fitting panels.

Also cut some Acrylic Perspex with a Dremel and dropped in the bottom

...not the best workmanship but it can be covered up with printed parts

[sharp grove]

I reprinted the panels to match and fit better

And made a start on the tophat with a frame

Next up is to attach the frames and cut a door and panels for the tophat frame out of acrylic. I will probably just use cardboard for a while

[sharp grove]

Another step closer. Now I need to print some peices to fill the sides and skirt around the idler towers so the door can seal top and bottom as one rectangle peice.

4 screws to undo when I need to get access and it seems to be holding down well enough

[sharp grove]

Progress update...

Going to make some decorative trim and i need to make latches for the door

[fiery minnow]

I'm so glad I found your post 😄 Because you're building exactly what I plan to. I'm in the process of planning my electronics bay. Like you, I'm planning to use a lot of parts from the stock electronics. Unfortunately, I'm still a complete noob when it comes to that. My question about your picture is what is that part at number 1. I know it's stock electronics! And what is that part at number 2 and what is it good for? Maybe you can help me

[sharp grove]

Part 1 is a transistor for the heatbed and is a stock part in the ender 5 plus; it's used to power the bed heater without running the power through the mainboard. The octopus mainboard would be perfectly capable and fine without it tho.
Part 2 is a 5v PSU for powering the pi and probably some neopixels and fans in the future, again I don't really need it because the octopus mainboard has 5,12,24v selectors for fans and I could easily get the required 5v 3 Amps for the pi off the octopus 5v rail

[fiery minnow]

thank you very much, that helped me a lot 🙂

[fiery minnow]

Quick question again, how did you attach your PSU? Because the stock PSU is not included in the Configurator for the electronics bay.

[sharp grove]

it should be included, I think it is listed as LRS-350; although it might not be meanwell the mounting is the same

[hallow socket]

Can you tell me where you got the files for the BTT HDMI7 klipper screen?

[sharp grove]

I found on printables or thingiverse i think. I'll see if i can find it again

[sharp grove]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6479816

[lone portal]

Hello partner, I haven't been able to advance in the screen configuration for several days.

https://github.com/bigtreetech/BIGTREETECH-TouchScreenHardware/blob/master/BTT HDMI7 V1.2/Hardware/BIGTREETECH HDMI7 V1.2 User Manual.pdf

I have followed the instructions but I can't get it to work. I thank you if you can enlighten me as you did.

thank you.

[sharp grove]

I ssh and used kiuha to install klipper screen and it just worked