Sovol SV08 3D Printer

I recently bought this printer and I am happy. In the field of 3d printers you find a lot of critics complaining about this and that. The point is that the wear on the components is higher compared to other tech tools. It is hot, it is fast and there are lots of mass being moved around. Never forget that. And tweaking the system to the own needs is relatively normal.
But so far (fingers crossed) I did not have a lot of problems. At the beginning I used the wrong profile for PLA and that caused some trouble. The only complaint is the deviation in bed levelling. It looks like the measurement is a bit unprecise. So I moved from 2 to 3 samples. Since then it is better.
But that was about it. The printer is very fast. I mean very fast. The prints look very nice and it is a well rounded package.

After printing around 650hours and almost 7.5km of filament on the Sovol SV08 it is a fast and pretty reliable 3d printer (for the statlovers there is a history tab on the mainsail page).
i use it for making cosplay props, warhammer terrain, vehicles and mega size Lego minifigs or should i say maxifigs.
However the build plate could be better, last week it gave out on me and prints would not stick anymore whatever i tried...wash it with soap, isopropanol alcohol, multiple tries in automatic and manual bed leveling...no such luck, buildplate worn within a year of use.
After putting on an new non brand pei plate prints finally stuck again, even better than the stock buildplate from the start.
Also the stock buildplate temp. of 65c is way to hot for pla, the underside of the prints buckle so i changed it to 55c wich is a normal temp for printing pla.
Furthermore i changed the stock hotend for a microswiss hotend.
To make large and fast prints this printer is the way to go, for printing smaller detailled parts i use my Sovol SV06+ wich is still going strong after a year of full use.

I'm a software developer brand new to 3D printing and needed to invest in a printer that could handle lots of small electronics prototyping for potential products that I am working on. After a significant amount of research I decided on the SV08 because of it's near fully open source features. What sold me is that this is based on the Voron, which in itself is a great project, and so this carries on that same open source mentality having a significant amount of the product fully open source plus the hardware schematics available open source. As a software guy open source means a lot to me for longevity of a product and since this machine will be used as a tool for larger projects longevity is very important.

I received my printer only 3 days after ordering, went through the instruction manual carefully and took some extra time (2hrs) putting everything together and with just the auto calibration I was able to print a damn near perfect Benchy. I'm now awaiting my second and much larger print to complete - with the included filament and so far it's looking fantastic.

A lot of the reviews I saw on Youtube had notes about things like fan noise at idle, bed issues and tweaks required to get things running but I can say that out of the box with almost no manual tweaking this works great and a lot of those issues have been addressed and for the ones that haven't been addressed there are very easy tweaks you can do to address them yourself thanks to the open nature of the software and hardware.

Thanks to Sovol for following and appreciating the open source community and producing a fantastic product that will inevitably have a long life thanks to dedicated fans like me contributing to the open source aspects of this system.

I received my SOVOL SV08 a few weeks ago and have put about 200 hours of printing on it so far. The build was straight forward and the materials are surprisingly good. I ran a few test prints after initial calibration and the results were fine but I needed to tweak a few things to get to the standard I required. The factory nozzle is fine but I upgraded to a Micro Swiss FlowTech nozzle just for the ease of nozzle swapping ( I change nozzles a lot). I added a few macros to klipper and installed KlipperScreen software on the SV08 without issue and I run Xserver XSDL on an old Android Phone that I designed a top mount for. So far I've printed PLA, PETG, and TPU with no issues. I am extremely happy with this printer so far. I would say it is generally for the more hands-on type person if you want to get the most out of it and you can't ignore the value of having a fully Open-source printer. SOVOL did a great job here. Time will tell how it stands up to daily use . I am very happy with this printer. I've just ordered the enclosure to facilitate my ABS/ASA/PC printing but haven't yet tested those materials.

I watched a number of videos about the SVO8 when I was deciding to purchase one and the overall reviews were positive with some small issues on the earlier machines. The machine I received went together flawlessly and fast. I took my time just doing it in a laxed manner and was done within the hour they list. Ran the calibration routines in the instructions then printed the 12 min Benchy and I was very pleased! I plan to buy a second machine at some point. I will be adding tool changer capability to both so that I can install the slice engineering 500c hot end as well as print with different material for supports.