Tout d’abord, je tiens a dire que ceci n’est pas un coup de gueule sur Velleman. J’ai ma K8200 depuis 1 an et malgré pas mal de défauts, elle remplie son office au niveau qualité/prix.
Néanmoins, quand je vois la Vertex, il ne reste pas grand chose du projet initiale en terme de design.
Somme toute, pourquoi avons nous acheté la K8200 ?
1: le prix certainement.
2: le plaisir de monter soi même sans doute.
En comparant la K8200 et la Vertex, j’ai comme un petit gout de déception en bouche. Le design est tellement différent, qu’il n’y a pas d’upgrade perso possible…
Pourtant, connaissant un peu Velleman, (je construisais déjà ses Kits il y a 25 ans) il y a certainement de nombreuses pièces en commun ( board, moteurs, rod, pulley)
Je pense qu’il serait bienvenue de la part de Velleman de proposer un package upgrade avec les pièces nouvelles.
Et si ce n’est pas possible, un cash back pour les nombreux acquéreurs de la K8200, sans qui le projet Vertex n’aurait pas vu le jour …
Upgrading will be very difficult and should be thouroughly tested before it can be marketed. This would take the Velleman crew almost equal time than designing a new one. So I can understand that only a complete new model is going to appear on the market. Furthermore I do have the same opinion of you: as a shop I also have to invest the price of a new machine and I also need to invest time again to build this.
Did you follow the article how to convert the K8200 to a CNC machine? This looks a very good further use of the “old” K8200. I think I will advise my customers to do that. What do you thing about this?
for me , the best solution for Velleman is to sell upgrade packs for the k8200 that contains :
Better solution for the Z axe. ( flex coupler, Z microswitch system and maybe the second axe )
Better extruder with hotend.
better flat heat bed.
with this 3 modifications , i think that this product will be verry good as between the 8200 and the 8400 : the Velleman K8300 !!
am new user of 3D printers and i really enjoyed the assembly of the printer.
am now working on the imporvements and this is really fun, (when we get better results of course )
i bought this printer for this mod. i need to make several PCB , and realy want to test it !
We will release a direct drive 0.35mm extruder for the K8200, most likely in january.
Together with the upgrade Z-axis and coupler, you will be able to improve the performance of your K8200.
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