ANTCLABS BLTouch : Auto Bed Leveling Sensor/to be a Premium 3D Printer (with 2M Extension Cable Set)

Many many reels of filament have gone through this printer since them as well as several hotends and a stepper motor and belts. So the BLtouch wearing out is not a surprise. I did try replacing the wiring and probe but it still failed at start each time. Resetting and retracting the probe allowed it to work . Maybe I could have kept on doing that but figured its time to retire it. One star subtracted since they show the connector at the end of the 1 meter harness is not dupont. And what came is the old style dupont,

Had to reverse the Z-endstop wires verses what the instructions said on the Tevo Tarantula but after that no issues. A little fiddly getting all the offsets right but you can hardly blame that on the product. Also the range is small so your bed still needs to be fairly close to level. It only loses a star for the hour I spent troubleshooting the wiring issue.

Very accurate, genuine product. Most listings for this product seem to be fakes. The product in this listing is genuine.

When it is working, it’s great. Unfortunatly, I just ordered my third, not because I love it, but because they stopped working. I do not know if it is something I am doing or something to do with the controller board ( Duet WiFi). The last one worked for six months and I was happy as a pig in pie. I printed almost every day, but then I took a few days off and came back to a flashing BLTouch. Usually, that is a wiring issue but I made sure it was plugged into the controller correctly, checked all the connectors with a usb microscope, and even though everything checked out alright, I carefully built two new cables, but in the end, I was left with a flashing non-functional sensor. Addendum: The third I’ve worked fine with both the new and the old wire and connectors. Tried the old ones with the new wire and connectors and the still did not work. I would saw that locks it down: the BLTouch was mal-functioning on the two older ones.

No more wasting time with bed knobs and paper trying to level your bed. Let the hardware do the work for you and enjoy good prints. For the miniscule investment in money and time, theres no reason not to have auto bed leveling.

It’s important to get skilled at leveling a printer bed manually, but once you’ve got it down pat, you probably just want to get your prints done. Having the machine do the work for you and get right, reproducibly, is what the BL Touch is for, and it’s great at it, but you have to know what you’re doing. It’s not for beginners, but auto bed leveling with a sensor like the BL Touch is the next step to reliable printing.

Purchased this for my CR-10s Pro. Came as the newest version 3 so I had to wait until firmware was released for the printer to use it. Now with the latest tiny machines firmware my printer can autolevel on any surface and my prints have a nice first layer every time. It is a little slow since it measures each of the 25 points twice, but as long as I dont have to remove the bed I can skip leveling between jobs as it saves the mesh bed level on the printer.

Works great on a ender 3 v2

Exactly how expected will buy again Yes yes yes. If you haven’t upgraded already, then do it.

I installed this on a Petsfang mount on my Ender 3. Not having to baby sit my prints and re level all the time is amazing.