I have an Ender 5 with an MKS Gen L board and am going through the process of installing my new Hemera. The cables supplied don't seem long enough to reach my board. I figure they need to be long enough to have the slack required for the hotend carriage to move around. My question is: Should I look at relocating the board outside of the Ender 5 housing (in it's own custom case) and mount it somewhere on the top rear of my machine and just extend the power and screen cabling, or would I be better off extending the wiring into the board instead the existing housing? If I am going to extend the heater and thermister cables, do I need specialised wire and can I just solder them? I am unsure if extending wires will impact temperature readings. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The 1 meter E3D cables are way too short for a CR-20 style printer as well. I re-used the Creality heater cartridge with its 1.5 meter cable (since it was still in good condition) and I extended the E3D thermistor wires with some stepper motor cable (AWG24). I just soldered the wires and used heat shrink tubing on each wire. I plan to purchase some Molex Micro-Fit 3.0 connectors later and crimp them on long cables to eliminate the solder joints. Here's a good method to join the wires.
I love that tutorial! I show it to anyone I see melting solder onto wires I could just reuse the Ender heater and extend like you have. I also need to extend the extruder cables by the looks of it. Was expecting it to all be long enough but I guess I didn’t to enough research. Still not sure if it’s just easier to design and print an enclosure to mount everything up top back and just run power cables back down to the PSU. Good to know I can save some extra soldering if I use the Ender heater though. Thanks for the info mate. Really appreciate it.
@SeanD curious to hear what you ended up doing for your setup. I have an Ender 5 too, but I haven't installed my Hemera yet. Also, do you have recommendations for a good mount that can be printed?
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4223811/comments used this one in the end I think. Really need to check it to be sure though. I don't have a BL Touch so I just found one that didn't take up additional space. Didn't lose much build plate as I first thought I would have to.
