Review on Enhanced Performance with 🔊 Creality Upgrade Silent Mainboard Customized by Jacob Ferrarini

The board was an easy replacement and stood up with no problems. It's also surprisingly quiet compared to a standard board. However, the problem with 1.1.5 is how the Trinamic drivers are linked. You are in legacy mode, not in the UART. By default, they run in StealthChop mode, which is really quiet. But it also has less torque than the original drivers, so steps are sometimes skipped. Out of the box, my 1.1.5 board skipped z-axis steps and gave me some weird layers in the fine print. I also think the extruder was leaking. With the drivers connected to the UART, you can selectively switch them to SpreadCycle (louder but better torque) as well as adjust the driver current with the controls. But in version 1.1.5 they cannot be switched to SpreadCycle. The driver current can be adjusted, but that's manual on the board, not in the software. I refunded the fee. I could probably set the current higher to help with Z-Skip and Extruder, but without the ability to toggle from StealthChop mode, this isn't a reliable solution. I ended up buying TH3D's EZboard Lite and it turned out to be amazing - quiet, reliable, with full support for Trinamic features, easy firmware upgrades and good overall support. You get what you pay for. Version 1.1.5 is quiet, but with the way they hook up the Trinamic drivers they miss out on a lot of the benefits I thought I was getting.