r/BambuLab • u/A_Dubs_ • 4d ago

A Series [A1, A1 Mini] A2L Speculation

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What’s everyone think it’s gonna be?

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u/Engineary 4d ago

Gotta be larger than 300x300 plate, at minimum?

I'm excited! My A1 is great, but I would love to go that little bit bigger on a few of my prints.

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u/Captainatom931 4d ago

I used to work for a reseller and there was a rumour doing the rounds of a 500x500 printer, which I struggle to believe. 500 is enormous.

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u/Engineary 4d ago

That's almost 20"!! Unless the plate was completely static, I don't know how that would work.

Most people would need a dedicated room haha

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u/iWushock 4d ago

It’s called a bed slinger for a reason. You set it up and then because of space you have to use it as your bed. Luckily the A2L will have a “night night” mode that heats the bed up to a comfy temp to sleep at!

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u/ddd-printing A1 + AMS Lite 3d ago

And it could gently rock you to sleep as well with the Y axis!

Need one side warm for me and the other cool for my wife - we seem to have vastly different bed temp needs and then I'm sold on this.

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u/opndor 4d ago

Now THAT was funny.

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u/Captainatom931 4d ago

Yeah, there's no chance you could make a bedslinger that big lol.

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u/C4pnRedbeard 4d ago

Lol the cr10-s5 would like a word. It DOES work. It's also pretty darn slow. Used to have two of them, but one still runs daily.

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u/Captainatom931 4d ago

Damn I forgot about that printer!

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u/-__Doc__- 3d ago

Yeah I almost bought an svo8 max , but got an H2c instead and I barely have room for it. No WAY I coulda fit the max in my tiny place, lol

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u/honeybunches2010 4d ago

Especially on a bed slinger 😆

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u/Cryostatica H2C, P1S 4d ago

Yeah, there's an upper limit to how large a bed slinger can be before it starts having to move too slowly on the Y axis to be reasonable. Inertia's a thing.

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u/Spartan_J114 16h ago

I owned 2 of Creality's CR-10S5 Printers which were 500mm³ however they sucked hard due to them basically being a standard old school cr10 with bigger rails and no tech to support the bigger size. I believe bambulab could 100% do a 500mm³ printer but I'm not sure I'd want it to be a bed slinger

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u/Fun-Candle5881 A1 + AMS Lite 3d ago

Can’t see something so huge. The a1 already takes so much space for the moving bed. Or maybe they change the system entirely and the plate don’t move and it’s a modified rail system where the bed don’t go up and down but the toolhead does. Someone even spoke about a cnc module. And if we look at a cnc system it’s possible

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u/milehigh73a 3d ago

I have a friend with a 500x500 printer. It is core xy. I can’t imagine a bed slinger being effective that large

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u/Disastrous-Ad911 3d ago

500 would be glorious