Hey y’all, I managed to hack together a printer from scratch and I’m struggling to get it to print well. It’s a CoreXY system that’s being controlled by a Octopus 1.1. Dual z screws, the works.

I have it moving under it’s own power and all. It’s able to actually print, but the results are atrocious.

I’m just trying to diagnose what’s wrong here.

The bottom/first layer actually looks kinda good. It’s just completely shredding subsequent layers.

Any advice would be appreciated!

  • IMALlama@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If you are suffering a clog and/or under extrusion issue the worst I’ve ever seen happen on my printers is the extruder clicking because the e-stepper is trying to step, but can’t. It might not be a bad idea to go over all the connectors in that path. When I finished building my Voron one of the factory terminals in the LDO stepper’s connector had a terminal that was backed out, causing weird extrusion issues.

    • franzfurdinand@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      The print before this one, the blobbing/shreds were tall enough that one grabbed the BLTouch probe and bent it a little. I was pretty mad about that tbh.

      I’ll double check my connectors. That’s a solid shout actually.