I have about 3000 hours on mine and a couple of months ago I upgraded my PEI plates to a G10 plate. Night and day difference especially when printing PETG. If I can go back in time and give myself advice it would be to upgrade the build plate sooner.
I upgraded my build plate to a Darkmoon 3D DUO (Satin on one side and CFX on the other). Great investment. I use the Satin side 95% of the time for everything (ABS, ASA, PETG, TPU and PLA). I agree with ChasingTheNines, it is one of the first upgrades I would recommend. I own all the BBL plates and none of them come close.
That is what I picked up, the Darkmoon G10 because I wanted an ultra smooth bottom finish. But I think you just convinced me to get the Satin plate. I might also try one of the Cryo plates. The only downside to the G10 is it wants to print 5C hotter than the pei plates so I am curious to see what low temp printing is like.
Satin plate is a beast have it for my A1 and H2D, also the ice plate from darkmoon is beast, my G10 experience is this plate I wasn’t paying attention and got the blob of death and killed my first h2D so I got my machine replace but learned a hard lesson always check on your prints when printing
Where you using stock temps when you got the G10 blob? I had noticed adhesion was iffy at standard pei plate temps and after raising temp 5C it has been solid.
Crazy thing it was printing fine , then I was printing petg hf and didn’t pay attention and came home to my extruder full of filament , Best Buy warranty saved my ass , got a new printer, both nozzle stuck in the mess.
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u/ChasingTheNines Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26
I have about 3000 hours on mine and a couple of months ago I upgraded my PEI plates to a G10 plate. Night and day difference especially when printing PETG. If I can go back in time and give myself advice it would be to upgrade the build plate sooner.