100 Point Bed Leveling Mesh In Under 10 Seconds! (Beacon)

Modbot Why is no VZBot videos?

why manage all that in the slicer? do a print_start and have it all there

Oh man. This would’ve been amazing in a Qidi XMax 3. But seems like it wouldn’t work on it.

what pt1000 is that the phaetus? cuz for sure is not the original mellow one

Cpap is extreme over kill 😂

it's this type of pricing that is going to flood the market with chinese knockoffs. I know a lot of R&D probably went into this so the price is almost certainly justified, but now that it's out it isn't going to take long for someone to reverse engineer it and release a $10 version. if the legit version was only 20 or 30 bucks I don't know of anybody who would hesitate to buy the real deal, but at $80 plus shipping that's gonna be a hard sell for a lot of people. This is exactly what happened with BL Touch when it first came out- very aggressive pricing and the market got completely flooded with knockoffs because it's not really that complicated of a device. I work on a lot of 3D printers and basically every mechanical ABL I see installed is a BLTouch knockoff, almost never see a genuine one anymore.

As soon as you said the equipment only runs on the skata that is klipper is stopped watching, bye

Works good for meshing bed. I purchased 2 for my voron but after 2 weeks is trash stop working and crash ma tool head to the bead

This is the first time I've seen your channel and I loved the video. What printer/ build is that and do you by any chance have a video already of how to make it? I've been into 3D printing for a few months now and want to step up my game, my Ender 3 is good but I want to make or buy something better.

Had printers before auto leveling was a thing and it's really not an issue. Set once and forget.
Why you would need 100 points checked on a flat plate is ridiculous.

I have an X-Max 3 from Qidi. Anybody knows if it can work with this machine? It uses Klipper but certain areas are somehow modified.

so not so good for a glass bed then

man , that is super fast! Excellent info!

Following this thread with high interest! This might be a thing of the future...

Bad For Precision Parts?
ok, so 'mesh leveling' lets the printer adjust your mesh so it adheres properly to a warped bed.
?but isn't this terrible for a precision part? Now the bottom of your part is Not Truly Flat.
if you were relying on that surface to fit with another part; now it won't be right.
I'm thinking that for those applications Physical Bed Leveling is still important

OH MY.... 79$

This makes me grateful for the lidar on my X1C

Trying to understand why +-30 seconds matter in a 3d printer. Even in large print farms, the difference between a 30 seconds and a 10 seconds mesh leveling is negligible at best. What am I getting wrong here?

I hope they soon as possible replacement wire sell , cuz for a voron 350 was to short. I made contact with the company, they asked me a correct measurements. 3,5 meters you need to use.🍻 Product are high quality ❤❤

If I'm seeing right this is same coil driver IC I've used to design <1um accurate inductive sensing industrial product over a year ago.
It actually operated within 1um, whole scale movement detection, with proper coil design you can get nanometres.
Regarding pricing, beacon probably costs around $10 to manufacture, shame the designer has come up with such a large profit margin.
I have a voron with stock inductive probe, I think I will design sensor in same for factor so it's a drop-in replacement.

Electrical engineer here; if you exchange the screws holding the bed with magnetic iron screws, the probe should not have anymore problems with detecting the z-offset on those points.

How does this compare to Lidar leveling solutions?

truth have to be spoken. not nice that you did not compare the accuracy and precision with a least two types of probes in the market..

80$ USD is a deal breaker & really a luxury option

Do you always have trouble installing things?
You seem to need help every video.

Ridiculous ! Build your printer properly, rigid with a flat bed and no need for that !!! And by doing so, plenty of other benefits !

wtf!

Bummer, I'm using a repo from desuu that enables klipper to use my cr10s pro stock touch screen.

I see only reasons to stick with my SuperPINDA here…

Finally the Beacon video! I missed the notification 2 days ago lol

Why should it scan the whole plate all the time. Why not scan the location where it prints only.

The only problem I can see with it is that it only measures conductive material, so if the coating on the bed isn't completely flat then it won't see that, it is effectively measuring the steel sheet, not the actual surface, now the surfaces may be good enough that it doesnt matter though, however if you use glue or tape on the bed that will definitely mess it up. The other disadvantage is that it only works for conductive surfaces, so garolite or other surfaces are completely out, and again like I said, tape or glue is too.

I want it for my old cr6-se.. or the elegoo neptune 4 plus!

This with adaptive bed mesh would make meshing REALLY fast

I wonder how easy it would be to combine this with KAMP

We need some axillary fans like those on the VZ Bot but for the ender 5 plus

Cool, will one work over canbus?

Would love to see this come to the mainline printers like creality k1 (what I have) would be fantastic

Does this also work with the Creality Sonic Pad?

I've got one going into my Voron build; your video will be invaluable. Thanks, Daniel!

I wonder why its needed to check the bed before every print?
I have a older printer myself, but i spend maybe 30 min once to level it and then its set.

I do 300 point mesh with Beacon. It's madness.

It's definitely nice to have but the price is way too steep. Also, it doesn't matter for large 3D printers farms since a couple of minutes for mesh bed leveling doesn't matter at that scale.

Looking forward for such solutions to be implemented in future printers 👍🏻

Love beacon myself. I will add it to two more of my pri ters someday but i agree $80 is a hard pill to swallow and they seam to be on a constant backorder as well. Also its not recommended that the usb cable go into motion chains. So it would be a great option to have a fep wire option for that.

I’ve been using the Beacon on my Voron and ENder 5 Plus for several. Love it. Especially for massive beds.

Combine it with KAMP (adaptive mesh) and you can have 2 second meshes before smaller prints.

It is work with marlin because beacon was designing for marlin in the first place not for klipper firmware

Why does your printer have CPAP tubing?

is a cnc flat machined bed better?

This is for experts only!!!

Never understood the purpose of these probes, they measure the metal underneath your actual printing surface not what you're actually printing on. What's the point?