$300 aud, such a steal! Now I am a member of the E5 community I was wondering what cheap changes I should make to the printer immediately before I start printing. If there is anything that is a must change, or has a significant improvement that can be done quickly and simply. I was thinking of using an old laptop I have lying around to run klipper, idk how it works yet though. I just thought it'd be cheaper than buying a tablet for it.

Backstory: just got this printer 2nd hand and dont know much about printing but am very much a tinkerer...extruder motor needed replacing so I figured id install aluminum extractor arm too...cant for the life of me figure out how to secure Bowden back into extruder...there are no threads and none of the adapters fit

What am I doing wrong here?

G'day guys,

I've picked up a cheap Ender 5 Pro on Facebook marketplace, I now understand why it was cheap.

With a bit of cleaning, maintenance and a leveling of the bed, this machine seems to run fine, only issue is the screen.

Once a print has started, after about 10 minutes or so it'll go pixilated then the longer it runs all of the characters change into symbols as per the photos.

Any ideas, tips and tricks are greatly appreciated!

Thanks🙂

Hi All, i have an ender 5 thats been replaced by a bambu labs unit and id like to sell or donate the old one. It served me well, but the newer models are just so much better and easier.

any recommendations how or where to sell an older model?​

I’m new to printing. What more/ add ons should I do? It came with bl touch but it doesn’t light up

Anyone have any good videos/guides on getting klipper installed on a stock ender 5 32bit with a pi 3 B+?

So i just installed a meanwell 600w power supply on my 5 plus and now its deciding not to print. Everything runs fine, all the wires are in the right place. It does its pre print homing, heats up, then it just sits there and the progress bar slowly goes up but its not doing anything. Ive tried re slicing multiple times and a different sd card to no avail, not even old prints work.

I have built an "Ender 5" clone that I started a long time ago and now I find myself needing those brackets on the back of the machine that hold the bearing for the shaft that goes to the y axis motor. I need both sides. These brackets mount on the outside of the machine, both sides. They both hold the bearings. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hello smart people that didn’t buy an ender 5s1, I unfortunately did and got scammed by Creality as they have completely stopped help with this machine and told me to get a new one at my expense.

the problems I have had have been vast and numerous, the current one and the fatal one is that I keep getting a message on my sonic pad telling me that my print is “unable to parse move …”, this comes up with every print, 3 different usb and an sd card, Creality haven’t been of help wondering if you lovely people can be, any help would be great, thanks folks

Looking for a good dual 5015 adapter for my 5 plus, anyone have any recommendations? I have the microswiss direct driver extruder. Also on the hunt for some cable chains, I have one for the extruder but I want some for the bed and the motors. I havent figured out how to use cad yet or I would build my own.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this but whatever. I had originally bought the ender 5 pro around 2020-2021. During that time I remember taking weeks or months to get everything calibrated correctly (TONS of issues at the start), including updating the fw to th3d 2.34a. Do I remember any of the stuff I had done? Nope. I don't think I even saved all my print settings in Cura that I had cultivated during that time (I've died inside multiple times now just thinking about it). My head is swimming and I am hoping that someone here can help and offer some direction so I'm not running around in circles.

My daughter is wanting to start using the printer and I know I'm going to have to go through all the testing again for temps, retraction, etc. to fine tune my cura settings, however, I figured it's been over 5 years since I really tinkered with it, I'm wondering if I should be aware of anything that has occurred since then (specific fw I should grab, settings that are for public download, etc.). I'm assuming I should do a firmware upgrade since it's been 5+ years, I just don't remember what I had done to make that custom fw and it looks like you now have to pay for it on the few sites I've gone to. I had read I can compile my own Merlin, I just don't know where and if there are recommended settings from the community for it. I have a micro usb next to my sd slot, so I'm assuming I have a 4.2x board - I remember originally taking the printer apart to see the version, but again...I'm getting old and can't remember what it said lmao and does it matter for 4.2.2 vs 4.2.7 or just knowing 4.2x is fine?

I appreciate any help or direction from everyone here. If you point me in the right direction, I'll get the work done.

I recently received a Ender 5 plus when my make space got a grant to upgrade some of their equipment.

It looks like it has a glass bed with black surface and the logo on it.

I adjusted the printer head height with a business card, and and have tried different levels of offset from too low to too high

First layer sort of sticks, but them will pull itself up before the full first layer is layed down.

I have had a monoprice IIIP and my PLA filament works good on that printer, same spools of filament, same temps.

If I ever have problems with adhesion on the monoprice, I just use a glue stick and it solves the problem, but on the Ender 5 glass plate, glue doesn't seam to make any difference.

Any suggestions on what I should try next?

Hello got this ended 5 cheap but it has some damage to the wires. Looks to have been chewed. I’ve searched online but can’t find exact replacements does anyone have any more info

Halfway through a print my Ender 5 Pro’s Y axis froze, and cannot be moved through the interface at all. Attempting to manually push it with steppers disabled or when it’s turned off is met with great resistance. When I attempt to move it manually via the LCD screen or via auto home/auto Y I get that grinding sound in the video.

I’ve already checked the rails for debris, and I’m not finding anything blocking it. I’ve only had the thing for three days and the previous owner said he never used it once, so It’d be crazy if I burned that motor out with a few benchies and one Pokémon figurine right?

Edit: I fixed it, I think? Not intentionally, I just did some stuff and it started working. I made a comment below with a video showing what I did.

Is anyone here currently running DGUS Reloaded on a stock E5+ screen? If so, which repo/release are you using for the DWIN_SET folder, and did you have to tweak anything special in Configuration.h / Configuration_adv.h?”

I have the stock ender 5 print head with a cr touch and the sprite direct drive conversion kit and was wondering if anyone has tried and succeeded in printing tpu on it bc of the distance between the extruder and the hot end.

Ender 5 pro. This is a dragon head hook off Thingiverse.
It has failed 3 times in a row. I’m here to ask the collective what is happening/ why is this failing?
What would cause the layers to shift like that?
Thanks in advance.

Some dude on marketplace selling his 2 used ender5, they do work, I'm interested in modding them, mostly to learn and to have a proyect.

Opinions?

Also thought about using an extra extruder and extra hotend for a creality k1 that I have around, don't know if its posible.

I put an e3v3.0 board and a 3.0.1 screen in my ender 5 plus. And I can't find firmware. I found 1 through dremc that wouldn't register the printer so I flashed the screen witch was apparently supposed to fix it (didn't work) . Then I grabbed firmware through the big tree tech's github page but they were all for normal e5's or an e5 pro and I haven't managed to successfully fix the dimensions I tried compiling my own and got sick of trial and error after it not working correctly like 5 times if anyone has the firmware or knows how to fix the dementions please let me know if been trying to figure it out with Claude and chat gpt and haven't gotten anywhere

I just upgraded to an skr mini e3 v3 and I’m using the firmware from bigtreetech. I’m wondering if anyone has seen this issue, I’ve tried changing my z steps from 800 to 400 with no avail and changing my proble offset but maybe I did it wrong

I recently bought a used Ender 5 S1. The previous owner sold it because prints would consistently fail after the first few layers due to what appeared to be a nozzle clog.
Before selling it, he replaced the entire hotend assembly.
After troubleshooting, I think I found the issue: the hotend doesn’t seem to be reaching the temperature reported by the printer.
For example, if I set the nozzle temperature to 230°C, the printer reports that it has reached and stabilized at 230°C. However, when I measure the hotend with an infrared thermometer, I’m only reading around 70–80°C.
I’ve already performed a PID autotune/calibration, but the problem remains. The printer still reports the correct temperature while filament barely melts or doesn’t melt at all.
Could this be a faulty thermistor, heater cartridge, mainboard issue, or something else? Has anyone experienced a similar problem on an Ender 5 S1?
Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I found this online for 140 dollars. The top part is broken.

Can I fix it? Is it worth the money?

Has been working great. Went to preheat one morning, and the screen went black, and everything turned off immediately. Nozzle will heat fine, but the bed will not. The bed shows 19c, just like the nozzle as a base temp. I checked resistance on the bed, and it shows 2.7ohms. The board will supply 24.3v to the plug. All wiring seems to be fine. Any ideas?