Belt tension or something else?
So I'm having some slight issues, Not sure if this is belt tension related or something else.
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Turns out it wasn't actually my issue... The Pi was being throttled And I didn't realize it. It was the old Motorola Phone charging brick dropping voltage. Plugged it directly into the power brick on the Surge Protector and my issue's went away.
I lifted the nozzle a whole .120 and it was still doing the same thing. And then I was also having homing issue's after I made this post. It would only move the gantry about 20mm and then stop and report no trigger after full movement.
After changing the power supply everything went back to normal, I use a .040 feeler gauge to set nozzle height since its more consistant than a piece of paper....
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Z offset too low or over extrusion.
This waves are caused because you are extruding more than the distance between nozzle and bed can take, so it doesn’t go sideways it goes up causing waves.
I would recommend you to print the same square and adjusting your z offset on the go.
@YouvBeenThumped
Same concept, kind of 😂😂
Solution
Turns out it wasn't actually my issue... The Pi was being throttled And I didn't realize it. It was the old Motorola Phone charging brick dropping voltage. Plugged it directly into the power brick on the Surge Protector and my issue's went away.
I lifted the nozzle a whole .120 and it was still doing the same thing. And then I was also having homing issue's after I made this post. It would only move the gantry about 20mm and then stop and report no trigger after full movement.
After changing the power supply everything went back to normal, I use a .040 feeler gauge to set nozzle height since its more consistant than a piece of paper.
Pending the distance of the Pi from your board, I pull the 5v directly from my Octopus and haven't had an issue with undervoltage since. If you go this route, make sure you use both 5v outputs and 2 grounds.
I did the same as wolf, use both wires to handle the current ^
I might do that. I just like having the Pi on a completely different power circuit so I can restart the actual machine and not have to remember to shut down the Pi before doing so.