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Replacing Fabtotum Hybrid Head v1 Hotend with E3D Lite6

April 12th, 2020October 2nd, 20213D printing, Documentation, Electronics, Hardware, Raspberry Pi, Tutorial9 Comments

I replaced the stock hotend of the Fabtotum Personal Fabricator Hybrid Head v1 by an E3D Lite6 hotend (The full metal V6 should work the same way). In this post I describe the steps to remove the old hotend, get in the new hotend and the simple modifications to the firmware that were required.

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