Bigtreetech - colour me impressed !

[curious aardvark]

I ordered a skr 1.4 turbo board and a 3.5 inch touch screen with some a4988 drivers, two weeks ago to the day !
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IGTREETEC...72.m2749.l2649

seller was biqu11
Paid £34 and was expecting it to arrive sometime in july !

I didn't get the tmc drivers for a couple reasons.
1) quite a bit more expensive
2) don't need a quiet machine
3) given the size of the heatsinks, they must pull a fair bit more power.
4) the a4988s do everything I Ineed at the right price and stay pretty cool.

Arrived today !

Approximately over a Month before the estimated arrival date and hands down the fastest thhing I've ever had shipped from mainland china.
So tick number 1 :-)

Really well packaged. The board and screen are in their own little boxes.
Never had cheap components in boxes before, always just been in the little grey plastic bags.

Some nice touches: 2 little yellow rubber ducks lol
One in each box. They are now adorning a statue in the garden. We'll see who spots them :-)
The board has a 128mb micro sdcard installed. Ideal for flashing firmware and to be fair you'd get a fair few models on it as well.

The stepper drivers are all individually packed with heatsinks included in the packets.

No actual manuals - but a bigtreetech card with web addresses and scan codes to get the information from.

I have to say, that if this kit actually works - the sheer value for money is astonishing.

The board is 32 bit, has three fan sockets and dual z axis sockets as well as two extruder sockets.
There are also a bunch of extra sockets on the screen that look like endstop or sensor connectors - never seen that before.
So next job - track down some data sheets and find out what all these things actually do !

I am Really impressed.

So posting this because, while people frequently say when they've had crap service and parts - we almost never praise a seller or manufacturer who does good things :-)

Plus, it's always good to know where to buy components.

Biqu11 and bigtreetech - you'll be my first choice for bits in the future :-)