Let me know how the V6 install goes. I plan to do mine in the next week or so.
V6 install was gravy. Started to watch a tutorial on youtube, but my parts were a bit different, so followed the official guide:
https://e3d-online.dozuki.com/Guide/V6+Assembly/6?lang=enThe firmware update would have been a sticking point if I had not already been changing and compiling Marlin the day before. (If I hadn't fried the original monoprice board, it would have been one line of gcode to change the thermistor value). Everything with the hotend went without a hitch.
The mount I used was literally the first thing I printed when I got the printer years ago because people online recommended doing so in case the hotend when bad.
The mini display continued to throw me for loops. My axis were reversed when I tested them in the menu, so I inverted them in Marlin. Then homing was reversed. I try to reverse homing, but it throws errors and can't be compiled. Then I find out that the encoder wheel on the display can be reversed....and the direction the menu responds when the wheel is spun can be reversed. Then I get where I think everything is right, I open Pronterface to my first PID tune on the hotend. ...and the axis are reversed there...meaning they were correct to begin with.
So I go back and make sure everything is right in pronterface, then change the wheel and menu settings to work with that.
.....and then I struggled for hours (still struggling) to get my limit switches working. It should be the simplest thing. It's just a NO microswitch. Tried everything and it was like they weren't there. Then discovered that I was supposed to have jumpers on the board. Then they showed always closed so I inverted them, now they show always open regardless of whether they are pressed or not. I know I'm a bit in over my head, but setting up friggin' limit switches shouldn't be the difficult part.
I could be printing on it if the limit switches (and homing) would just work properly.