Wow! I have had this printer for 2 years now and its been working great! Minus the slightly bad seems when layer changing but they shouldn't be anything near as bad as what you showed, that's in your gcode and or over temp. Bridging is great btw you should have tested this before Suggesting that it wont be. Did a 50mm test and no issues at all so I don't know what the max would be as the test only went to 50mm. Mine came great, no loose anything and has worked perfectly all this time. Goes to show some people can have different experiences with the same products. I see your printing extremely slow, U are expecting it to be really bad. I print on 60sp because I have my Gcodes so tight by now and great prints all day long. Only at under 0.1 will I drop the speed to 48-50. NOTE to anyone that might have this or is thinking about getting one: It prints hotter then most printers so print at ur recommended lower settings. This helped clean my prints so much from stringing and blobbing when I was first testing them to none now. Took me a while to find out but after several testing's I was so happy to find this out. You can thank me later!

Glad you came back from the future.

The sunlu s8 does have a belt tensioner, it's just 2 m5 bolts in the front. Tightening those two worked well for me, just make sure to keep the bracket properly angled

Hi Callum can you suggest a better board that will fit no problem

What would be the most ideal control biard for this unit? I bought one recently to then mod and uograde, until I feel more confident for a high quality one.

So I was looking at getting this. I was planning on adding my microswiss ng extruder(which I already have). Is there a recommendation for upgrades to make it better?

I imagine this may be worth it to connect to a sonicpad?

Do you still have the link tot he belt tensioner clip you used? I can't see it in the comments. Thanks

I know im bit late for the party, but that final issue you re mentioning could be caused by powerloss recovery function (if that printer has it) try tu turn it off and retry the print (this is common issue in some cheap printers, more or less noticable ie ender 2 pro, in my case) /vit explanmation here...yes you re corrent stopping issue is caused by low data feed rate, but that is lowered by permanenetly writing to sd card marking last location in case of power outage (this is how this funcion works)

Nice large format machine, no doubt

There is a bug on this printers main board. If you have to much on the memory card it will cause issues. I keep ten or less files on my card and all my prints come out fine. But I learned the hard way as well about this bug. That being said, I have multiple printers and this has been my favorite for years now. As you mentioned the PTFE tube is garbage, I replaced that with Teflon. The hot end on this machine is one of the biggest problems on this machine, it's terrible, I replaced that. And there is a fan shroud on thingiverse for this machine which fixes the cooling issues, I think it's by red squirrel? Other then that and the issues with wear at the filament run out sensor I have had no issues. I couldn't even tell you how many thousands of hours I have on this printer. I haven't even so much as have had to adjust a belt. Just new nozzles and bed leveling. I will say, it doesn't print as well my ender but I'm usually doing some sanding on my parts so I don't really care. That being said the difference is very minimal.

Just picked one up from Sunlu for $170.

No such issues with my S8, but I agree it's a bit noisy.

It's the first version printer of SUNLU I guess.

How much is this printer worth?