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Pretty sure I just bricked my Mk4 during the mk4s upgrade (self.3dprinting)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ArtVandelay to c/3dprinting

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Long story short, I am not mechanically inclined. I want my shit to just work. Somehow I decided I would order the MK4S upgrade kit for the prusa MK4 that I have. It took me about 12 hours but I did the upgrade and turned it on only to find it wouldn't boot with a power panic error message.

I tracked it down to a cable that got disconnected during all the upgrading, and when I went to push it back onto the board it bent the pins. When I tried to straighten them out the pens broke off and now I have a $2,000 paperweight on my desk.

EDIT: Ok, i am now rested and calmed down, and no i will not be buying an X1C from ~~the CCP~~ Bambu. Support was indeed super cool, and i'd need to spend another 120 for a new xbuddy since mistakes like this are not under warranty. However, my dad is a lifelong hardware electronics pro, and he seemed to indicate this should be no sweat to fix, so we shall commit mad science before i just buy another one.

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[–] ArtVandelay 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Thanks, i will probably end up doing this, with the help of a pro. I do find it interesting that newer revisions / replacements of the xbuddy board no longer have a series of flimsy wires- they include an actually connector on the board. compare these two screenshots of my board and the official replacement kit. It's also possible the entire white part just ripped off my board somehow and stuck to the wire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's also possible the entire white part just ripped off my board somehow and stuck to the wire.

That's exactly what I think I'm seeing here.

[–] ArtVandelay 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah I confirmed it when I went back and looked at it again. It ripped about 70% of one of the pads off, which isn't great, but I tried to flow enough solder to connect to it. Unfortunately it still giving me the same error, does anyone know if there is a schematic for the buddy board available?