 Hey everybody, welcome to The Edge of Tech, where we aim to educate and entertain the maker community. Today, I'm gonna show you how to replace the touchscreen on the Ender 5 Plus with an analog touchscreen that does much, much more. My name's Jim, and this is The Edge of Tech. ["The Edge of Tech"] So this is Future Jim. I'm jumping back in here and re-recording this section because I thought it was pretty important to explain why we were doing this. We have taken this old touchscreen out of the Ender 5 Plus and we replaced it with a TH3D upgrade kit. What that does is throws away the touchscreen and adds the analog screen back with the knob and button that you're used to. This allows for much more functionality than the touchscreen ever gave us. Yes, the touchscreen was nice, but I tell you what, it really limited us and it was a pain in the butt to do simple features such as baby stepping because you had to press that button so many times. What we're gonna do is show you how to take out that old touchscreen and replace it with a kit from TH3D which is in the description below and I tell you what, the functionality is much better. And I tell you, it's a super simple thing to do. And if you're new here, don't forget that we do a live show on Monday night, 6 p.m. central, and we release videos on Thursdays. So check those out, maybe give me the like, hit that subscribe button down here and the little bell to be notified next time a video or a live stream starts. So let's do it. Once you got the case open, we're gonna replace this touchscreen right here with the brand new Ender 5 Plus 12864 LCD upgrade kit from TH3D. We're gonna start by removing the stock display cable and you can remove it from both ends if you want to. Then what we need to do is take out four LCD screws and there's one in each corner. Once you get them all out, this is gonna be loose and this is gonna come off. Something to note down here. There's a wire right here that was actually connected to this bottom bolt here. Remember that wire. At this point, you can pull the old screen out and set that aside. Now you can remove the gasket and you'll need to take one of the screws you took the monitor out and you'll need to reconnect that ground down here back to that post. Kinda hard to see, but I got a screw started here. I'm gonna tighten it in almost tight. Then I'm gonna push the ground back up in there and we're gonna tighten it in from there to hold that ground so it's grounded again right here. What we need to do now is put our screen back and it goes right here. So you wanna take the screen you got from TH3D here and this is a very early model. A little bit different than what they're sending out now but same principle. It has T-nuts here and the T-nuts are gonna slide into the extrusion like this. They're gonna cover that front hole, make sure it's fully covered and aligned nicely and then just tighten your screws down here to lock those T-nuts in place. So from the bottom, that's what this looks like here. Everything's locked in. Do not over tighten this. You will crack the case, but everything's on. It's nicely centered and secured to the frame. Now that it's secured, we just need to plug in our cables and we're gonna use the two ribbon cables that came with it. So we're gonna plug them into EXP1 and EXP2 on the board and on the screen. If you look at your board and you're looking at it straight on, EXP1 will be on the left, EXP2 will be on the right. But get those plugged into the board and I know that this first one is EXP1 and I'm gonna plug that in to EXP1 on the back of the LCD screen. The next one is EXP2 and I'm gonna plug that into EXP2 on the back of the LCD screen. So that's what it should look like when you're done. Now that we got the display in, the cables connected and we went through that, what we need to do is make sure that the screen comes on and the easiest way to do that is to just plug the board into your USB. So we'll plug it in, you'll see the board come on here because of the power of the USB. If you look, you should see power to the board itself on the side. Now in my case, I don't see power. So what I'm gonna do is reverse these cables here and see if that fixes it. What I did was literally pull them out and flip them around 180 degrees. And to do that, you need to have the connectors will need to be shaved a little bit. In this case, my connectors were already shaved. So I just flipped the connectors around. I'm gonna plug this board back in. Let's see if we have a screen now. So if I look, I do have a screen and it is lighting up and that is a very good sign. At this point with the display lighting up, you know that everything is plugged in and communicating correctly. You can put the bottom back on and that's what we're gonna do now. Now that the back is back on, we can flip the printer back up like it should be. Now you can see how it looks from the front. It's nice in its center. It covers the hole back there. Everything looks really good. Again, this is a early version of this kit. So it's a little bit different than what you get now. We plug the USB in, you'll see the screen turn on and that's what we wanna see. Now what we need to do is grab some firmware from TH3D's website and get that loaded up. Now what you wanna do is go to the TH3D website and download the unified firmware, which will be in the description below. Go ahead and open it up and you'll get this window right here. It comes with a lot of really good stuff in here. So take some time and check it all out. But this is the file we want right at the bottom here. So go ahead and double click it and that will open up the firmware itself. Go to configuration.h and hit control F for the find feature. Then you wanna type in Ender 5 Plus. Perfect and search that. And when you search that, you'll find the category right here for the Ender 5 Plus. You wanna uncomment these two lines here and then uncomment these two because we have added the new screen. So you need to make sure both of those are uncommented. So it'll say defined, it'll be highlighted just like that. Pop open the search again and type in Silent Board and that will take us to the Creality Silent Board section of the firmware. You only wanna do this if you have that TMC Creality Silent Board. You wanna go uncomment these two lines and that will tell it that you have that Silent Board. Then you wanna go make sure you have the right port chose and the processor is gonna be the 2560 Mega. When you got that far, just hit the upload button. It'll start the upload, it'll compile the sketch and push the firmware to your board. And then when it's completely done, you'll see right here, it'll say done uploading, thank you. And you'll be good to go. Well, there you go. We got the kit from TH3D. We installed it on the Ender 5 Plus and it looks great and it functions great. And that's what I love about it. You get more functionality back when you don't use that touchscreen. Now I really did like that touchscreen but this just adds functionality back. All in all, from start to finish, it's maybe a 20 minute process and anybody can do it. All you have to do is grab the parts or go to the link below in the description, straight to TH3D. You can get the parts from them. I really like how it looks. They really made it blend in so you can't really tell it's there and the instructions and everything that they had were awesome. This is the third video in the series of three videos. So this is the last one. What we accomplished in this series was we added a more silent fan to the case. We installed a better power supply from Meanwell and we also did the conversion kit from TH3D to get rid of that touchscreen and add this screen back in. That way we get added functionality back and this printer should run amazing with the TH3D firmware as well. Well, I really appreciate you guys watching all three videos in this series. I hope you guys learned something with all these videos and this one and as always, keep printing. Hey everybody, thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to catch us live on Monday nights on our live show called Hot Makes. We do that every Monday night at 6 p.m. And you can catch us there. Also, we're gonna start putting out videos every Thursday so stay tuned for those two. So Monday night, 6 p.m., we do a show called Hot Makes. Thursday, we'll put out a video for you guys. Don't forget, if you love the video, give me that like with a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed yet, please do that. Hit that subscribe button. 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