No More Noise! How to Make your 3D Printers quiet (Ender 3 and Anycubic Chiron)

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Hi everyone!
It's been a while since I uploaded something, and in that time I gathered a few more 3D printers for my projects. The only problem was that they were all annoyingly loud. So to keep my sanity I made this video in which I silence two of them - Creality Ender 3 and Anycubic Chiron.
After the modifications from the video they're noise level went from around 40dB to 15dB which is a major improvement. They can still be heard but it's just a very delicate fan humm. The motors are dead silent and as I said in the video I sometimes forget they are even on. If you want to make your printer even quieter I would recommend getting higher quality fans like noctua, adding some foam under the printer or making an enclosure to absorb the rest of the noise. It's also a good idea to limit max speed and acceleration with Gcode to avoid any sudden axis noises.
Important disclaimer
I am not responsible for any damage that you may do to your printers. In this video I work on open power supplies which can be dangerous to both you and the hardware so make sure you unplug everything before proceeding. Also power supplies have fans for a reason and you gotta keep in mind that changing it for a quieter (usually less powerful) fan may cause the PSU to get hotter and potentially create a fire hazard. My power supplies work perfectly fine after modifications but if you use a lot of power/your printer works in an enclosure/your power supply already runs hot you should think twice about changing the fan. Keep in mind that buck converters or as in my case voltage regulators(especially they) create heat as well. Also as said in the video each printer and motherboard have different connections and capabilities so just make sure you know what you are doing.
Now with that out of the way here are the parts I used:
-TMC2209 drivers
-SilentiumPC Zephyr Fans 40/50/60
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-Step down converter / Voltage regulator 24V to 12V
-Anycubic Chiron feet - www.thingiverse.com/thing:322...
-Creality Ender 3 feet - www.thingiverse.com/thing:331...
-Quick tool change for Ender 3 - www.thingiverse.com/thing:336...

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@beemergb Жыл бұрын

Great tips thank you , I fitted stepper motor dampers and that was a fantastic and cheap way to get sleep at night !!

@customax 8 ай бұрын

Hi, For the anycubic stepper motors, what cables did you swap, and what is the reason why we need to swap them? Thank you for the awesome video :D

@akcarl 6 ай бұрын

Dude, the easiest way is to just buy a 24v fan….

@hightech7744 Жыл бұрын

impressive

@xBenKu 4 ай бұрын

hey, idk are u still here but, instead of some kind of converter to use just a resistor? im not an electronic engeener but ist just seem simple enougth to dropout a voltage (3:50)

@cosmefulanito5933 5 ай бұрын

Your current adjust of the new drivers are wrong.

@adeharris4457 9 ай бұрын

Your phone isn't recording that noise correctly they are in the range of 65/70dbs & after reduction around 40dbs

@IronChad_ Жыл бұрын

How did you change the stepper motor in the code. Where is this code for Anycubic chiron?

@BasementCreationsChannel Жыл бұрын

I didn't change printer code for the Anycubic, just replaced stepsticks and swapped wires. I did however changed code for my Ender 3 with Skr 1.3 board, there are many tutorial on what exactly you need to edit in marlin to make it work.

@jw200 Жыл бұрын

9:16 are you satisfied with this huge printing head and fans? makes prints better or what are the advantages? Im currently using stock head and thinking about making it better

@BasementCreationsChannel Жыл бұрын

The printhead itself is quite small, it's just the 50mm fans that make it appear larger. These fans are large because they are PC fans designed to move air at a low noise level. Therefore, I later added a second 50mm fan on the other side to improve cooling. Overall, they are not better at cooling than the stock Ender 3 fans, but they are definitely quieter, which is the main purpose.

@user-dy4nj1cd2d 11 ай бұрын

These noise meterings are kind of suspicious. I'm also facing problem with loud 3d printer (ender 3), so I bought myself noise meter (cheap one). Meters of this quality usually cannot register anything below 30 dBA. To achieve this level I have to shut all windows and sit inside a room where nothing is turned on. So 19 dBA does not seem realistic. Ender 3 with Noctua fans gave me like 30-35 dBA which is really quiet. But I used 120mm fans for the motherboard and PSU and 40mm for the print head. And it was actually not enought, print head started to jam because of overheat.

@BasementCreationsChannel 11 ай бұрын

Well I was using a smartphone app for the measurements so they probably weren't very precise. I was recording in a closed room with only the printers turned on at a distance of about a half a meter. All I can say is that the upgrades made a night and day difference, I can't really hear the Ender printing when I am using a computer in the same room. As for the jamming issue I didn't have such a problem, but now when I switched to Klipper for faster printing I must admit the under-nozzle cooling is severely underpowered and my parts do suffer from overheating. I am considering switching to double 24V 5015 blower fans and running them undervolted at around 12V, since they are much quieter that way and still blow a lot of air.

@user-dy4nj1cd2d 11 ай бұрын

@@BasementCreationsChannel I switched to creality sprite and already bought one 5015 (but not mounted yet) because stock fan is also noisy.

@jw200 Жыл бұрын

On ender 3 the loudest fan is the front fan of extruder. If you stop it by hand, there is almost complete silence. Thanks for telling me about silentiumpc fans. I will order some. I have lots to print and can't sleep in all that noise. I also ordered silent motherboard 4.2.7

@mrvelocity3428 5 ай бұрын

the reason it goes silent is that the motherboard fan is connected to the part cooling fan, meaning if the part cooling is off the motherboard fan is off

@XdewGaming Ай бұрын

He uses a third party motherboard so it could be controlled, if you use 4.2.2/4.2.7 MB and connect the stock way then the hotend and MB fan will run 24/7 while the printer is on.

@010falcon 4 ай бұрын

So your circuit works, yes you can step down 24V to 12V with voltage regulator, but you are wasting half of the energy. Normally you step down from 24V to say 13V or 14V with a buck converter and then use a voltage regulator to get a nice signal.

@EmrahKarakass Жыл бұрын

Hello my friend. I've looked at many designs and really yours looks great. I'm also making a lot of changes to my Chiron. like tmc2209.-fans-vs. this printer is very good but it has too much sound. Now I decided to direct drive system. this is my question Have you had any problems with this upgrade?

@BasementCreationsChannel Жыл бұрын

Well the things that were a bit problematic is figuring the wire connections leading to the hotend. Also tool changing with this new system requires you to remove the cable chain. Other than that it works great and it's remarkably quiet.

@EmrahKarakass Жыл бұрын

@@BasementCreationsChannel Thanks for information. I've looked at your files but I don't see the hot end holder? can you check them please ?

@EmrahKarakass Жыл бұрын

step file is slightly different from video

@EmrahKarakass Жыл бұрын

or is it the same but enough for the hot end block to stay there?

@BasementCreationsChannel Жыл бұрын

The original extruder is a part that holds the hotend. To assemble it you need to remove the top extruder cover and screw the rest to the 3D printed part

@zeScenzo 11 ай бұрын

Bro built a whole 3D printer

@jasongooden917 Ай бұрын

power supply fan is now backwards

@hightech7744 Жыл бұрын

Please as a member of the 1%, we need all the details.

@BasementCreationsChannel Жыл бұрын

What details exactly do you need?

@gartnl Жыл бұрын

After a buck convertor don't expect PWM to work ..

@BasementCreationsChannel Жыл бұрын

Good point, but it still works anyway

@ohnoitsaninja Жыл бұрын

replacing a "loud" 24v fan with a "quiet" 12v fan in your power supply is the kind of thing you need to actually test thermals for it was loud because it was moving a lot of air, and now you are not

@BasementCreationsChannel Жыл бұрын

Yes you are right, that's why I wrote long disclaimer in the description. Hovewer the fans were also loud becaouse of poor quality and overvoltage. In my case thermals were ok in both printers but for some machines with hot PSUs changing fans might be a bad idea.