Quoted from mbwalker:Anyone have experience with the delta kit printers?
Yes, I do, I have had a Prusa I3MK2, but really they are way overpriced for what you get. Ok, they do print nice but they are put together with tie wraps. Silly for the price.
I have bought a used Anycubic Kossel and bought the electronics from Duet, so the board and a smart effector, together with a normal E3D v6 hotend. Also (and that was crucial) I bought Haydn's magnetic arms. Best upgrade ever. Put in an aluminium heatbed with anycubic Ultrabase.
It prints very good and much quicker than my Prusa did with no noticable decrease in quality.
Delta printer have a bad rep for being difficult to calibrate, but the Duet hardware does it all automatically. Plus it is proper modern hardware with a color touchscreen and wifi built in and 32 bit all controllable from a PC in a webbrowser, nothing like the 8 bit board with the cheap monochrome display that Prusa still uses.
Do not get me wrong: again, the Prusa is a good printer, but hardly worth the money they are costing. I get better results with my 500 dollar delta and it is doing it in style