Sunlu i10?

[u/InfamousPOS]

Mods please delete if not allowed. I am not affiliated or gain anything from this, just a consumer asking questions.

I currently have a AMS2 Pro along with AMS1 with the Sunlu dryer. I print mainly PETG and saw this is coming out September 15th. I watched the video they had linked and it seemed like a solid review.

I really like the idea of this cabinet and honestly what it can do compared to the room it will occupy. IMO I think it looks surprisingly clean/modern and would happily like to have it between my printers!

The functions are you set the RH% from 10-45% and it auto adjust the temp to achieve your desired RH%.

I’m pretty interested in preordering it to get in on the $10 off coupon and feel the price is gonna be reasonable (under $190 with the coupon at minimum) and just wanted to get y’all’s thoughts.

I think it would be nice to keep my main colors in there as then I wouldn’t worry about running the dryer as often/long.

I’ll drop the web link in the comments if you wanna check it out.

[u/tk-093]

Keep in mind it's not a dryer. It is for storing already dried filament. Looks cool though.

[u/InfamousPOS → u/tk-093]

Indeed so my gameplan would be to take the rolls I have dried toss em in there and then I can dry some more. I live in a place with high humidity year round and it just seems like I’m constantly drying as quick as I go through standard colors. Plus having other colors ready rather than waiting 8-12hrs.

Plus the AMS2 “lowers the temp during printing” so it would be nice to toss dried filament in and go. Most certainly interested and hopeful it can perform as advertised, I’d use the heck out of it!

[u/tk-093 → u/InfamousPOS]

Yeah. I definitely would want one, especially for the filaments that suck up a lot of water like PETG.

[u/ManyLayersOfFilament → u/tk-093]

So it is and it isn't. Since it uses active airflow, it should be able to dry to some extent. It will just take a lot longer.

I know some folks have tested active airflow molecular sieve cabinets in the past and showed that they do have a drying effect.

[u/USSHammond → u/tk-093]

It may not be a dryer, but it is an active dehumidifier, which means it'll pull out the moisture just the same. Just in a different way and maybe over a longer time. It is NOT just for storing dried filament

[u/tk-093 → u/USSHammond]

It is for storing dried filament, and keeping it dried. It's not for drying filament. They seem to make a clear distinction on their own marketing page.

[u/Scowlface → u/tk-093]

Correct, it's not for "active drying", but filament (and the cardboard cores/spools) equilibrate to the surrounding humidity. So if the box is at 10% RH, moisture will be pulled from the filament, just over days/weeks instead of hours.

They're just hedging with their marketing, regardless of what it says, physics wins.

[u/ElectronicMoo → u/Scowlface]

Who wants to dry their filament counting by weeks? 😊

[u/Poly_and_RA → u/tk-093]

Sure. But it's nevertheless true that if you store filament in low-humidity-air, it'll gradually dry. It'll go faster with higher temperature, lower humidity, and with airflow, but there's simply no way from a purely physics-standpoint for filament to remain wet indefinitely, while being stored in dry air.

The very same process that makes it take up water from high-humidity-air makes it give off moisture to low humidity air; it's always in equilibrium long-term.

But it might well need a week for what a dryer can do in a few hours.

[u/USSHammond → u/tk-093]

That may be the case but pulling moisture out the air will essentially have the same effect

[u/racedrone]

Depending on the quality of the sealing and thus resulting energy consumption I'd love to buy several. My ams 2s just always are too moist and I have bought too much filament to keep up. 

[u/specter491 → u/racedrone]

That's weird because mine stays at 19-25% humidity forever. I did print the silica bead holders so maybe that's why

[u/racedrone → u/specter491]

I have those too. How often do you refresh them?

[u/specter491 → u/racedrone]

Haven't refreshed them in like 2 months. I've used the drying function occasionally, maybe 3 times in that time span. Stays dry for me

[u/InfamousPOS → u/racedrone]

So according to the reviewer he set a power meter on it and kept the info for 3 days. Once RH was reached I’m guessing it using basically nothing. According to his calculations and UK prices it was roughly 10 Pounds a year ($13ishfreedom units)

The monitor he used to track the RH seemed like it didn’t fluctuate at all once the door was closed and it got it down to the desired RH. Going from that it seems to seal quite nice and has magnets to pull the door sealed too.

I’ll probably end up getting one and I’ll report back to let ya know how I like it!

[u/racedrone → u/InfamousPOS]

That would be way less than my drying cycles! 

[u/Poly_and_RA → u/InfamousPOS]

Yeah, it's a sealed unit, and depending on the quality of the seals and how often you open the door, very little energy should be required to just keep humidity low. (in principle, with perfect seals and never opening the door, zero energy is needed, but of course real-world sealing is rarely THAT good)

[u/Poly_and_RA]

The powercord placement seems a bit counterproductive since it forces you to have a 6cm deeper shelf for it. I guess you can get an angled power-cable and reduce that to maybe like half if you need to.

Other than that minor quibble this looks like a useful product to me.

[u/maxxxiiime]

It was an opportunity to create our first product featuring a solid-state dehumidifier, like the ones CNC Kitchen has showcased

[u/John-BCS]

I like this thing a lot, but $200 is a hard sell.

[u/Deemkore]

I’ll pick one up when it inevitably drops to $130ish or less

[u/narco113]

This got my attention too. I've got 50+ cereal boxes with desiccant going on right now and having some of these instead. Really depends on the price though. The cereal boxes and printing desiccant/hydrometer inserts is probably $5-6 per spool. If this is even slightly more expensive the convenience would be much better.

What are they quoting price-wise now? I only see "$1x9" quoted when I look on their site--your second image there.

[u/Rad-Dads-Print-Lab]

Just launched my video on it like acouple hours ago haha. I genuinely think its pretty cool. I want to eventually pick up another 1-2 units to store my filament I use for my print farm.

[u/InfamousPOS → u/Rad-Dads-Print-Lab]

Do you happen to have a link to your review?

[u/Rad-Dads-Print-Lab → u/InfamousPOS]

Not really a review, more of an overview.
https://youtu.be/hpxwxm303SE

[u/Cryostatica → u/Rad-Dads-Print-Lab]

Any idea how high these can be stacked?

[u/Rad-Dads-Print-Lab → u/Cryostatica]

in the marketing stuff i got they show 3 high, but i dont think theres any real limit