cool - might not get a chance to fiddle with until the weekend but if no cover sounds significantly better I'll look into printing one and report back, prob could maybe even ventilate* the stock cover for better air flow... too bad I dont have one of those slick CNC jammies like @dJOS 
*I was having a moment trying to recall the word "ventilate" and was going to say "hole-ify" LOL
I understand "hole-ify", but what does ventilate mean? 
The decrease w/the SV06 is significant at 10db, but the remaining noise is still pretty strong. I assume the fan was chosen w/little or no concern about noise control and then stuffed into a tight case on the power supply. I really don't mind the noise in general as the printer sits in a bedroom at the far end of the house, which is part of the reason for my lack of action/investigation so far.
Circling back, I got everything put together and am extruding filament.
My problem now is that when I try to level the bed the bed is slamming into the extruder. hard enough that it left a mark in the bed and jerked back. I checked the z-offset and it is set to zero, is there some other setting? Where do I start?
Can't remember what OS/FW upgrades you've done, if any. Are you using the stock SV05 FW (one of my builds or what came w/the printer), and are you using the built-in bed tramming option on the SV05 display?
I never had that experience...the bltouch should keep things from slamming together during tramming.
Its the stock firmware, haven't gotten around to upgrading to what you sent me.
Yes, the built in option for bed tramming. bltouch is the little creality branded probe thing? on the display when I go to Advanced, CRTouch, self-test the probe strokes several times. There is a reset option, wonder what that does.
Yeah, that's what I' referring to, the probe to the right of the nozzle/print head.
You can try temporarily changing your Z offset to keep the nozzle farther away from the bed. In the Z offset settings IIRC you turn the knob to the right to move the bed down, farther away from the nozzle. Then after you level the bed you can re-set your Z offset.
But to be frank I am a little confused as to why you're having the issue you are w/the bed tramming.
The z-offest keeps resetting to -1.88. that seems a little large doesn't it?
Yes, if I remember correctly mine was between zero and negative 1. Like negative point 6 something.
So if you set the offset it then gets reset to a different value?
Yeah, set the offset to -.6. Start bed leveling and the head and bed collide. Turn the power off so that it stops and when I turn the power back on the z-offset is reset to -1.88.
I haven't used the display menu in quite a while so I don't remember the details, but are you sure you're doing a save config after you set the Z offset?
Can't remember for sure everything might be a two-step dance you have to do one step is he offset and then two, save the config.
So some details on my first experience w/organic/tree supports w/PrusaSlicer 2.6 beta 4.
Thing were going well/normal until somewhere around 60% into the print...at that point one of the supports came loose. It was still attached to the build plate, but just barely. I didn't want to give up on a long print, so paused the print and used a little scotch tape to hold the support as close to its intended spot as possible. Didn't really think it would work, but nothing to lose.
Some time later a second support came free completely. Things were looking pretty desperate in there. 
I let the print continue...and amazingly it recovered from the loss of supports and complete the top horizontal layer successfully (enough) to end up w/a decent looking and usable print. The supports came off pretty easily overall, though some scraping was required on the inside of the print due to the mess of loose filament that got plastered there when the two supports broke/came loose.
It was a little worrisome during the print to see the mess that was initially being created on top of the loose/missing support areas, but the printer recovered pretty darn well, happy in the end.
Thank you to everyone for the camera recommendations. I ended up going with the Logitech C270. Plugged it into the rPI, waited a couple of minutes, fired up the OctoPrint and BAM... we have a video! 
So on to my next noob question.
How are you storing your filament. Very quickly I'm up to 7 spools. I bought some of those ziplock bags with the thingy to remove all the air. Do people really do this for each spool? I was thinking of some kind of tote to store them in bulk with a few of those little gel containers.
Ideas?
Maybe you should start with a 12-step program for spool addiction? 
So far I have a pair of them (whatever spools are currently in use) in the Sovol filament holder\dryer, and the rest of mine are in Ziploc bags with the gel containers at least one per bag sometimes two if I had extra.
I have two methods I'm using. Not sure about long term, but I had some Husky totes from Home Depot that I used foam tape to seal. I then have one of these in the box:
For the filaments I'm actively using, I'm using these: Printables
In these boxes:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZLBJQDW?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
When the family says, "can you do this in <-insert color here->". Take advantage of that and order a two pack of colors, lol.
Perfect! Noticed they sell a 6-pack too, so I got one set of 6 coming on Monday. 
(next week, I'll order another set! 
)
The one caution with the spool holder is the lid for the desiccant holder that goes at the bottom. I don't think there was a single one I didn't have to glue to keep shut.
These are the bearings I used. I cleaned mine a relubed them with gun oil, but I don't think that's necessary.
I have some grey filament waiting to be turned into the models that @dJOS posted.
In the original boxes, in Sous Vide vacuum sealed bags containing a desiccant container.
I use THESE resealable Vacuum bags (34cm / 13") with THIS little rechargeable vacuum pump.
I need to do something like this for "long-term" storage. The cereal boxes are just super convenient since I don't have to do anything to use them.
Download the Hubitat app
