A Day of 3D Printing: Ender5 Plus
Channel: Drachen Cave
Date: 31/01/2022

Sharing a video of how I start up my Ender 5 Plus for a 3D print. Skip to parts of the video with the time stamps below. Most everything I comment in the video is linked in the PDF shared at the bottom of this description.

Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - Build plate wash
01:39 - Ender5 Plus specs
07:39 - Start-up process
13:12 - Back light method
15:50 - Print start
22:13 - What's printing today
22:42 - Wyze cam view

Big thanks to YouTube creators that helped me learn about 3D printing on an Ender 5 Plus:
-Kersey Fabrications: https://www.youtube.com/c/KerseyFabrications
-Breaks’n’Makes (3D Maker Noob): https://youtu.be/y_1Kg45APko
-Make With Tech: https://www.youtube.com/c/MakeWithTech
-Tripods Garage: https://www.youtube.com/c/TripodsGarage
-Thomas Sanladerer: https://youtu.be/1YU6Ehwiu4A
-and more

3D Maker Engineering has a few articles about bed leveling and a good first layer, which is where I learned and now prefer the back light method. Setting Z-offset with Breaks'n'Makes video above using a BLTouch and the back light method, then bed leveling before a print with back light method on the four corners works well for me.
https://www.3dmakerengineering.com/blogs/3d-printing/bed-leveling-first-layer-thickness-and-z-offset

Links to items:
Ender5 Plus: https://amzn.to/3WVyZQs
Wyze Pan Cam: https://amzn.to/3WZUuQ6

I forgot to mention it in the video, but all the red 3D printed parts on my Ender 5 Plus are in Traffic Red PLA from FilamentOne: https://amzn.to/3Npz8ay

I also forgot to mention in the Ender 5 Plus specs that I did switch the stock brass nuts on the Z-axis rods to pom nuts with anti-backlash. My machine had the screech noise many describe in other YouTube videos and Reddit threads, but the pom nuts+anti-backlash took care of that issue.

The model printed in this video is a Football Trophy: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3197333

PDF with links to 3D printed parts, vendor modifications, and acknowledged YouTube creator channels:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ug8ipuAA6glEvrTPNciLPuobnNcera9a/view?usp=sharing