One of the most attractive features of the Creality Sprite Pro Extruder is its weight and size. Yes, there are lighter and more compact extruders out there, but the Sprite Extruder comes with a more powerful Nema 17 extruder motor and the hotend is included in the extruder design.

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I was also curious to see what’s the thermal performance of the Creality Sprite Pro extruder. So I set the hotend temperature to 300C, and waited for 15 minutes before measuring the temperatures with the FLIR Camera installed on the CAT S62 Pro On some printers, the printer will not allow you to set the e-steps value this high. For those printers, follow these steps:Does require a bit of tweaking of the printer configuration to get Z offset and Steps/mm correctly but there's plenty of videos on youtube. Hardware wise its a fairly straight foward install. The use of gears with a gear ratio of 3.5:1, which perfectly matches the motor, enables an extrusion force of up to 80N (depending on the filament) and more precise control of filament retraction. The dual drive extruder replaces the toothed gear and idler of the single gear design with two hobbed gears, which each have a concave toothed section for gripping the filament and are connected with gear teeth on the bottom so they simultaneously apply pressure to the filament from both sides. One gear is mounted directly to the motor shaft, and the other uses an internal bearing to rotate freely. Both gears are made of steel and are unlikely to experience wear issues. This extruder is seen on Creality’s premium 3D printers, including the CR-10S Pro, Ender 6, and CR-X Pro.

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Make sure you get the Sprite Extruder Pro, its a bit more expensive but its full metal and doesn't have bowden tube inside like the normal Sprite :0 if you have the dual-gear metal extruder, we do recommend replacing the arm with the updated version to avoid wear issues, but do not feel that changing to a different extruder type is worthwhile.This design is generally effective, however there are a number of issues you can encounter after prolonged use: