At the end of my sanity; hopefully someone has the golden tip
First some background. I have a vCore 3 that was upgraded with the vCore 3.1 kit and later the RR Toolhead and a beacon. The printer has printed well for the longest of times untill I had a massive clog on the old EVA toolhead that broke my Pheatus Rapido.
I decided to "splurge" and get the new toolhead, complete with a new hotend, extruder and the beacon probe. This is where the issues began for me.
For the life of me, I cannot get a consistent first layer. I let the beacon do it's thing, make sure the nozzle is clean, and use a piece of paper to check if the Z=0 is actually spot on - which it is.
When I start the print the maddness ensues. It seems that the nozzle is either too close, after which I raise the head with microsteps and complete the print. I use "save Z-Offset" in the new RC 2.1 firmware and save_config; the next print it does it again.
Some other small facts / questions:
- The frame is square (get about 0,138mm height difference).
- I do have a small offset when I do multiple heightmaps, but in Z. The "min-Z" seems to move around 0.004mm up when the system heats up
- Is there supposed to be some play on the toolhead or is it meant to be completely rigid?
It is driving me bonkers; hope that someone can point me in the right direction.
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I think you only need to do the save_z_offset and not also the save_config but I'm not sure. Try it?
Toolhead should be rigid
Also, have you double checked your start gcode?
First of all - thank you for answering 🙂 PrusaSlicer does a SET_GCODE_OFFSET=0 by default on the PLA profile, i've tried excluding that but it doesn't seem to have an impact.
I'll go fiddle with the toolhead, it feels like there is some "play" (we call it speling in Dutch) when I try to move the head. Oh and the save_z_offset says this in the console:
"speling" = slack. Thank you google translate
Have you tried the recommended start gcode?
https://os.ratrig.com/docs/slicers/
yup, that's all in there.
and thats the only thing in there?
lol yeah, I've copy pasted it and removed the old values
one other weird thing: the little blob it makes when starting the print, that one is always perfect. Perfect offset, sticks just fine. It then moves over to the print area and (as it looks like) is either too high or too low
Sounds like the problem that was just discussed in #ratos-development where the beacon offset is getting overwritten on homing. Basically the new coding is being reviewed and when there's a ratos-config update it should be fixed.
tldr, it's not you, updater when available
oh that would certainly help my troubleshooting self-esteem.
Now that the new firmware is out I'm still having the same issues. When printing a 30x50 1 layer high testprint I have the following issue: Filament shows signs of being too close to the build plate. I try to microstep but the filament is already rolling up under the nozzle; I then pause the print and give a Z=0 command. I microstep with a 0.2mm feeler gauge and resume printing
Again the print fails; I pauze again and the nozzle is (again) too close to the build plate. I've moved up about 0.05 mid print and it still keeps failing.
Did you redo the beacon calibration?
yup, the whole thing
at this point I'm seriously considering moving back to the EVA toolhead just to see if it something in hardware
for those following, it was discussed in https://discord.com/channels/582187371529764864/859890291591217162/1290738733443842088 and fixed