Creality Ender 3 S1 PRO: In-depth review, Ender 3 S1 VS Ender 3 S1 PRO, side-by-side comparison
00:00 Intro
00:58 Ender 3 S1 and S1 Pro Common features
01:50 Ender 3 S1 Pro 7 major upgrades
03:04 Ender 3 S1 Pro 3 minor upgrades
03:28 2 other changes compared with the Ender 3 S1
03:49 Assembly, set up
07:45 Test Print 1: Calibration Cube (Overture Green PLA) + print quality comparison
08:53 Test Print 2: 3D Benchy (Overture Green PLA) + print quality and power consumption comparison
09:11 Test Print 3: Eiffel Tower (Hatchbox White PLA)+ print quality comparison
10:22 Test Print 4: London Phone Booth (Prusa Orange PETG)
11:16 Test Print 5: Shelf Brackets (Overture Grey ABS)
11:51 Test Print 6: Phone mount body (Overture Nylon, copolymer of Nylon 6 and Nylon 6.6)
13:24 Test Print 7: Phone mount knob (Polymaker Glass Fiber Reinforced Nylon 6 Filament)
14:14 Test Print 8: Phone mount top (Polymaker Carbon Fiber Reinforced Nylon 6 Filament)
15:23 Pros
17:28 Cons
20:15 Conclusion
Welcome back to Aurora Tech Channel. Last December, I reviewed the Ender-3 S1. It was the most advanced Creality printer I have ever used. It is packed with all the updated features you can expect from a new generation printer and the print quality is outstanding. Last week, PerGear sent me this new Ender-3 S1 Pro to review. When I first looked at the specs, it looked like it was just an Ender-3 S1 with a high-temperature hotend that heats up to 300 degrees to print Nylon, Nylon Carbon Fiber, and other high-temperature filaments. However, it is actually much more than that. Some upgrades are obvious and some are just small details.
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I've watched about a dozen S1 and S1 Pro videos today and yours is by far the most informative and easy to follow. Great job and thank you!
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What a well done video! Very well organized, filmed, and edited. Most helpful I've found so far.
I purchased an Ender 3 S1 based on your previous review. I love it. I spend very little time tinkering with it. It works as is. My time is happily spent designing and making things. I have recommended this printer to other people and have forwarded your review of it to them. Great job Aurora!
You should try the community firmware, it added a lot of features on the screen menu. github.com/mriscoc/Ender3V2S1
@@AuroraTech Thanks!
@@AuroraTech Will this firmware work on the S1 pro? I have tried several times now to flash my new S1 Pro, but it looks like there is no support for the touch screen. I really wish they didn't include a touch screen on the pro version 😢
@@AuroraTech will this work on the s1 Pro? I want to have better firmware on here to fix the bugs
its good to see Creality printing things like ABS, nylon, and other more engineering grade filaments out of the box. It was a long road to get my ender 3 pro to get there.
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this is the 4th video Ive watched comparing these 2 printers, and it is by far the best I've seen! All the others failed to give the direct side-by-side comparison of feature differences. Many of these aren't clear on Creality's website. This video literally made the choice for me based upon what is necessary to upgrade or not for the $80 (MSRP) price difference. Thanks again!
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By far this is the most Helpful Video on the Printer regarding Assembly, Suggestions, Tests with Different Filaments etc. Thank you Soooo much! Greetings from Kuwait
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Love the in depth review very helpful as I'm currently reviewing upgrading my existing ender 3 for an ender 5 plus but the fact that this is able to get up to 300c is definitely worth a look. Now I just need to decide what's more important print temp or print size 😂
Thanks for another great review video, Infact the only video that compare both Ender 3 S1 Pro and Ender 3 S1. Could you some day make a review video of comparison between Ender 3 S1 or S1 Pro with Prusa i3 Mk3S+
Great review as always, lots of great additions on this printer. This seems like the go to starter printer if you want to print higher temp materials!
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This is the only useful S1 pro comparison / unboxing / focusing on the actual detail and not filling an hour with personality BS :) Thanks my new E3S1pro arrived this week and i'm trying to get a profile migrated into the full version of Cura and Prusa.
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Hi Love your video's. Just ordered a Ender 3 S1 Pro from pergear. Will get it to Canada sometime in April. This will be my first 3D printer. I was on the fence between the Ender 3 S1 and the Prusa i3 MK3S+ kit for a month but this review made the difference. I like to tinker/build/modify so good quality Creality printing and your review won me over. Thanks so much!!! Rick Hubka for Canada
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Great comparison, probably the best one on KZhead ! Question: Is drying the PLA, ABS, Nylon really important? what happends if you dont
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Excellent presentation skills.
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i own a couple of prusas and they work ofc great, but this S1 looks really good. Getting convinced of try it
It's hard to justify calling the print quality "outstanding" and "amazing" when there are huge blobs in the corners of the calibration cube. This has been an issue on all the Ender 3 printers, and they still haven't fixed it. It would only take a small mod to their mainboard to enable the Linear Advance feature in Marlin which would then fix this problem. The whole reason I switched to Klipper on my E3V2 was because of the huge blobs on corners. It might not seem like a big issue if you are just printing stand-alone parts, but if you are printing parts that are meant to fit together,, then it is a real problem. Apart from that, good review as always, thanks for sharing your thoughts
I’ve printed tons of functional parts without linear advance and haven’t had problems. I just adjust the scale of the object in Cura by 0.5 percent.
@@larrythehedgehog If you're happy with that result, then that's all that matters. But I wasn't happy with it. If you print 2 of those calibration cubes that are designed to fit together in a confined space, then the cubes will only touch in the corners, and you end up with a great big gap in between the parts, and I just don't find that to be an acceptable solution. The point that I was making is that this has been a problem on all of the Ender 3 printers, and it is something that would be very easy for Creality to fix, they just need to add UART control of the stepper drivers. To me, it seems silly that they would add all new bells and whistles to make a $500 printer, but they still can't get the fundamentals right, As I said ealier, the whole reason I ditched Marlin and switched over to klipper on my E3V2 is that Klipper is able to solve this problem without the need for UART control of the stepper drivers.
Wow! I have an original Ender 3 Pro and always wondered why the corners of my prints looked bulged. What is Kippler and can I add it to my old Ender? I may do this to the S1 Pro that I ordered as well if possible. It is kinda of important to me as I print engineering prototypes on this machine. Thanks.
@@darkrulier Marlin has a built-in feature called Linear Advance which is aimed at fixing this issue, however, it requires that the mainboard have software control over the stepper-motor drivers to work, and Creality, in their wisdom, decided that software control wasn't necessary. This is why Creality printers still suffer from this problem to this day. Klipper is an alternative firmware for your printer. It is superior to Marlin in most aspects IMHO, however it requires a raspberry pi to run. Klipper has a similar feature to Marlin's Linear Advance called Pressure Advance, however, it does not require software control of the stepper drivers, and so will work with any of the Creality mainboards. It was exactly this issue that led me to ditching Marlin and moving over to Klipper, but Klipper has so many other benefits that it has just been win-win So, in Summary, to fix this issue on your ender, you either need to a) switch mainboards to one that has software control over the stepper drivers (most so), or b) Buy a Raspberry Pi and switch to Klipper.
@@johnrobinson3642 Thanks for the explanation, I'll look for a tutorial for this, I already have a raspberry pi attached to it for octoprint.
I really enjoy your videos and based on your review, just purchased the S1 Pro, arrived 2 days ago and I have printed several files. 100% pleased with the results. You mentioned community firmware - can you tell me more about this or direct to a “how to” area to find out more. Thank you greatly from NZ. Keep up the good work.
Another great video review and comparison. Clear & concise. I really appreciate your "things you like," "suggestions for improvement" and pointing out the issues/inconsistencies ( high temperature head using brass nozzles). Keep up the great work. Question - what is you opinion on the different gantry attachment mechanism? The Ender 3 S1 & Pro attach the gantry to the top of the base and the screws thread into the gantry while the Solov S4 attaches the gantry to the side of the base and the screws thread into the base.
I didn't see a big difference, for a larger printer like SV04, it's just easier to insert the screws from the side.
The best S1 review on youtube. Fact.
Look forward to the review for the S1 Plus and how it compares to the CR10 Smart Pro.
What a great video! I learned a lot, thank you. I think you convinced me and I'll go buy this printer at Micro Center tomorrow!
A really informative comparison video. Now I know why the Sprite hotend on the S1 Pro has a higher max temperature than the one on the S1. I will be printing LW-PLA and the S1 Pro is the one for this rather than the S1. Also the stand alone Sprite hotend available soon here in NZ is the 300c version, which I can install on my Ender 3, so I will have two printers for LW-PLA printing…Thanks much appreciated. Laurie New Zealand.
Great video very informative. I do own the S1 and was debating getting the pro for exotic filaments so I don’t have to tinker with a new machine with limited aftermarket parts. However I do see on my S1 terrible bridging even with support and was wonder if you saw quality issues in areas of prints with bridges. I am going to fit a new part cool duct. To see if it improves thanks
Thank you to you and your brother, Aurora.
Is Aurora the next best 3d printers reviewer ?!
Delightful review.
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This video is amazing.
I bought two S1's without knowing a "pro" version was coming out. Definitely interested in the hot end upgrade so I can start printing in a wider range of materials. My S1's have been great, but recently I had a problem on one machine where the z rods somehow went out of sync and one side of the x-gantry rose to almost 15 degrees above the other. I had no idea it happened until a print job I ran came out badly. I ended up having to unscrew the collar at the top of one z-rod so I could turn it freely and bring the x-gantry back into level. Curious if any other S1 owners have experienced the same issue, and maybe discovered what the root cause might be?
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This is a great video. I wish I'd seen it when setting up mine. I will say there are a number of things I found difficult when setting up as this was my first 3d printer. However you covered more than anyone else I've seen when reviewing it. A rather large problem I found was that you cannot pause and resume prints. There's a bug in the included LCD screen where you cannot resume after putting a pause command in your gcode. It won't even resume if you use a timed pause. So you cannot do multi-color prints, print on fabric, add magnets, etc. This may not matter for some, but ut is one of the reasons I bought a Sonic Pad - which was a huge pain in the ass to get working (though your other video was invaluable once I *did* sort out the firmware issues.) I actually love the printer when it's working but I think consumer-ready is still a ways off for Creality. There a number of silly little things that could be fixed with better programming.
Non-functional Ender 3 Pro, Non-functional CR-10 V3. Purchased a Ender 3 S1 Pro. Watched your video review, and as you went over the concepts, realized everything I 've been doing wrong. All printers working, still fine tuning but getting great first prints from all of them. Thanks again. Clear, concise. Thank you.
You guys are so awesome. I learn all I need in your reviews, so detailed, Thank You. My question is what should I do with my 10S Pro V1? I have made a few upgrades but WOW, The S1 is outstanding and the S1 Pro is so complete. Will 10S Pro ever get any of these upgrades too? I print 1.64 scale model trains and need the bigger cube of the 10S. Seems like the best approach may be to join the ranks of multiple printer shops. As we increase production for customer parts this S1 Pro could be a work horse for us. $500 is not too bad for the feature rich machine. Thank You both so much, very informative, and again Thank You Parents too! Great job by all. Dennis in Virginia
Great video. Straight to the facts, no bs. Your video helped me choose the CR3 S1 Pro. Thanks. I'm having a problem with changing the filament mid-print. I added the g-code to pause at height, works great. But the control module doesn't give me an option to resume, only pause and stop. If I press pause, the screen locks up. Any ideas?
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This is a fantastic review. I purchased the S1 Pro as my first 3D printer per your recommendation and I'm very happy with it. I agree with you that Creality firmware/menu is not the greatest. Is there a custom firmware that I could use on the S1 Pro (since it uses a touchscreen)? So far, I have only seen firmware for the S1 (normal version). Thanks!
well, you solidified my choice to buy the new S1 Pro, should be coming in a few days and can't wait to start using it since I have 2 Ender 3 V2 units that I've heavily upgraded, just got the dual Z axis upgrade kits and sprite hotend/extruder upgrades and with all that I've spent (in time and money) to get these printers where they perform pretty well, I could've saved time and money by just getting the S1 Pro. May sell my other printers off and get more S1 Pros haha loved the review, the clear/concise explanations, and the details provided. Subbing for sure.