Authentic Creality 4.2.7 32 Bit TMC2225 Silent Control Board with Filament Runout Sensor, 24V Ultra Silent Fan for Ender 3 / Pro / V2 / 5 Includes 1M Capricorn PTFE and Other Accessories Upgrade Kit

Replaced my Ender 3 Pro mother board version 1.1.4 with this upgrade and the printer is almost silent. Its worth the purchase by itself.... The wifey cant complain about the never ending stepper motor noises!! The included fan is really quiet too, and has an amazing blue light....WOW!! Too bad it only lasted a day and half of printing!! Dont waste your time soldering it in (the cable wont reach the mother board). Pure junk! I love the springs, they are tighter(?) then the stock springs. If the fan had lasted it would have been 5 stars...

update 9/15/21: well that fan making funny noise... well it died today. this fan did not run that long. guess you get what you pay for. update 9/21: all was well for few days, than stepper motors started to sing. found out it was board that was causing it. Contact Amazon and they sent me replacement. figure all will be good, but no. fan started to make noise on start up. takes about good 30 seconds or more and noise will stop (maybe need oil?) anyhow, replacement package arrives... again, static protection bag is open, and missing fan. anyhow, after install the board, it made noise and noticed filament runout sensor firmware was not flashed... WTF... after flashing firmware almost all stepper motor noise went away. (hope it stays that way) I dont know, maybe its just me having some bad luck or something. feels like these are 2nd hand or something that got returned and these 3rd party sellers buy them in bulk, put in box and resell. overall it sucked. replacing these boards arent fun. short wires and small spaces. hope this board lasts, cause I dont want to go through this again. Install wasnt too bad. remove wires, swap out board and reinstall all the wires. only thing was when it was booted for the first time, EEPROM thing came up, which community helped out solving. ill say, it is so quiet! it is so quiet now that i keep thinking it stopped printing. also hot end fan is lot quieter than stock version. i definitely recommend!

Wow I can’t believe the customer service they provide. I have a really old BLTouch that I thought wasn’t compatible to this board but I reached out and they walked me step by step almost immediately. The board really does what it says: quite AF prints! I can’t hear it at all it’s insane. Easy to install and easy to flash!

The kit has all the hardware needed and more. You should take note that the driver connectors are 180° from 8bit boards and that there is a lot of confusion around the net about that. I checked if the polarity was switched around as it was several indicators of this. However the polarity is correct with standard cables, no need to swap in connector as some sites claim. If there is one thing I would add to this board, it is a secondary driver for dual Z axis. The USB fits fine into the chassis if youre upgrading from 8bit. Changing FW was uneventful and worked first time. I am using mine on an Ender 5. Steppers are also of the quiet kind.

This is a very small company, but they provide excellent service and stand behind their products. The Sprite extruder showed up quickly and was easy to set up. I had one question and James was able to answer it quickly and I was up and running in no time. You have a lot of vendor choices, but I really recommend F1rst Layer!

Man, seriously, my brand new logic board died after less than a month. This sucks, and the return/exchange window just closed. Seller Contact Me!

Update 3/20/2021: The filament runout sensor uses a simple internal microswitch, and is unfortunately unable to accept a filament entering in reverse. This is a problem, because once the end of the filament triggers the sensor during normal prints and causes the printer to initiate the filament runout sequence, the subsequent filament unload process wont be able to push the remaining filament back through this sensor! The filament will get stuck inside the sensor resulting in the extruder clicking in reverse and its gears chewing filament in place. The design is really not great at all. A very very simple design tweak would have avoided the issue altogether (the internal lever should have been designed to have a hump shape instead of a cliff shape). Oh well, I guess for this price they could not be bothered to think through such corner cases. ----- Original Review: I can no longer hear the stepper motors at all after upgrading. I knew this was going to reduce some of the wee-waa noises during printing, but I was not expecting a difference quite this big. The only noise I now hear is coming from the fans, and I am working on strategies to make those quieter as well. I am really glad I went with this upgrade. A few things to know if you purchase this board: 1. the firmware that comes on the board is really old (1.x.x) and optimized for 8-bit ATmel processors. Its easier to download the latest firmware source code (2.x.x) and build it yourself with VSCode -- lots of videos online on how to do this easily. 2. Make sure you set the correct motherboard in Configuration.h (for example BOARD_CREALITY_V427) 3. Set the correct build target in platformio.ini (STM32F103RET6_creality). Good luck!!

My Ender 3 Pro is nearly silent now due to both the mainboard upgrade from 4.2.2 to 4.2.7 and the near-silent fan. Note: The fan that came with my package was a clear plastic vs. the black shown in the item description picture, but no matter - it was still much quieter. I would have appreciated clearer instructions for the runout sensor but otherwise this was a worthwhile upgrade.

Edit: The customer support team at F1rst Layer is First Class as they reached out to attempt to help me troubleshoot my issues. While they were not able to resolve my issues (I am going from an ender 3 to an ender 5) they were extremely detailed and attempted to provide many help articles and even offered for me to reach out and speak with them directly on Facebook for more support. The product itself works, it just didnt work for me. 6/10 product 4/10 installation support/guidance 10/10 Customer Support (Original Review Below) ======================================================== Black Screen of Death Control Screen Hot end Immediately Heated up after power was turned on Firmware update after firmware update after firmware update Bubbly Prints Jams The list of problems is Ongoing There is almost 0 support to be found online regarding these products, nor is there an agreed standard I only bought this kit because the factory hot end welded itself to the nozzle and I couldnt replace the nozzle without replacing the whole hot end. Hopefully I can return this, because honestly I shouldve just purchased a new Hot End and kept everything else the same. This Ruined my Ender 3 V2

I bought this board and had some trouble with it originally. The support team was fantastic and helped me get the issue resolved quickly!