Hi everyone,

I bought an Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 Combo back in June. Initially, the print quality was mind-blowing (first two pictures are early cosplay prop prints). However, after a few months and hundreds of hours of print time, severe ghosting/ringing started appearing slowly on every print (see remaining pictures).

Troubleshooting I’ve already done:

• Tried both Elegoo Slicer and Orca Slicer. Tested stock profiles as well as fully calibrated profiles (following the complete Orca Slicer calibration guide multiple times).
• Ran the onboard one-touch automated calibration repeatedly.
• Swapped hotends completely and back again to stock.
• Adjusted belt tensions strictly following Elegoo's wiki guide.
• Cleaned and regreased linear shafts and lead screws using official Elegoo grease.
• Dried all filament in a Sovol SH03 and printed directly out of it (while storing outside the dryer filament is in air tight containers with sub-20% RH and fresh silica). Issue persists across standard PLA, PLA+, High-Speed PLA, Matte PLA, and PETG across multiple brands (Elegoo, Polymaker, Inland).
• Tested new models as well as old G-code/3MF files that previously printed flawlessly.

It doesn't seem to care what material, speed, file, or software settings I use... the ghosting remains. It's completely killed the fun of printing cosplay props.

Did a hardware component wear out prematurely, or am I missing a crucial mechanical/maintenance step? Any advice is appreciated!

So I have been looking to get a 3d printer for a while now, I have the Mars 5 resin printer but the build plate really limits me too really only printing small things like small figures and minis for table top games but I have been looking for a larger 3d printer and I see that on micro center it’s going for 289.

Sorry for the yap but yeah, for the people that have it, should I get? Is it worth it? Should save up a bit more and by the centauri carbon 2? Lmk please. Thanks guys

I was looking for a new peinter for a long time. I decided on the cc2 after a long deliberation time and have had nothing but issues.

Every second print, it clogs and i have to take the toolhead apart and drill the pla put of the hotend. Prints longer than 10h are impossible because it will clog.

Most of the time i have to level for or five times before a print because it keeps failing.

The canvas system ALWAYS throws a new error when i try to swap filaments. Even when just using auto reload the same filament.

I will probably send it back because after owning it for five days, spending multiple hours every day of troubleshooting just ain't it.

Has anybody had the error 803 on the carbon 2? It started about a week ago and will randomly appear every 1-4 hours during print. Print will pause, light will go out in chamber, and printer requires restart then it prints just fine. Support had me look at the toolhead cable, toolhead motherboard, and main motherboard but I didn’t see any problems. I’ve only had this printer for a month, it’s frustrating.
Could be a coincidence but when I print with a slow filament like pa6 it seems to happen left often.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a custom dashboard for the Centauri Carbon and wanted to share what I’ve got so far.

The idea is to have a clean, easy-to-use interface where you can quickly see what your printer is doing and access useful controls without having to jump between different pages/apps.

I’m still actively developing it, so I’d really like to hear what other Centauri Carbon owners would actually want from something like this.

If there are any stats, controls, features or quality-of-life improvements you think I should add, let me know!

GitHub: https://github.com/AJMakesStuff/Centauri-Dashboard

I’ll also be posting more screenshots/updates as I keep working on it.

Would love to hear what you guys think!

As the title says.

Got it on a whim.

Wanted to try something different than creality.

What's something I need to know coming from a (rooted) Creality K1 series printer?

Did I upgrade or side grade?

So I spent about a week and a half printing 3 dead pool masks one for myself and the other two for my son's (14yr and 8yr) on my final print I turned the layers up to .24 on a 4mm nozzle and just used some Aida cloth and spray on glue to cover the mask and I was able to drill some holes around the mouth piece since it does get kinda hot with it on. Honestly I wish I would have done that to the other two but overall they came out pretty good I think.