Ender 5 plus leveling

bigone5500

Well-Known Member
I releveled my ender 5 plus. I really need to use something other than a post it but that's what I have right now. So after leveling the gantry to within. 04mm left and right I went into aux leveling which allows you to adjust manually each corner to your liking. I used the post it and then went into bl touch measuring which checks 16 points on the build plate. This is what is shown afterwards. I would like to know if Tony knows what this means. I am especially curious to know why the front corners read so much different. One is -.287 and the other is -.874. Could it be that there is some variance in my steppers? Maybe tomorrow I'll go out to the shop and get my feeler gauges and see how things change.

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Tony

Staff member
In looking at it, it looks like your board is not flat at all and it's seeing the waves in the board. But, knowing you, you used a dial caliper with a wide foot to run the X/Y axis against the bed, so I'm thinking you are right, it may just be a variant in the steppers. What matters is if you do a .2mm nozzle and get a perfectly even 1 layer print. If so, then I would call it good and it is in fact a variant.
 

bigone5500

Well-Known Member
So after the first post, I tried another measurement with my caliper. I went into aux leveling and moved the print head to the front left. I measured from the top of the gantry to the bed. I got the same measurement on the left and right sides of 1.951". I continued with the rear of the bed and got left to right 1.949 and 1.950" respectively. I centered the head and there I get L to R 1.952 and 1.950".

At this point I am perplexed. If such precise measurements with a caliper show it to be right on the money, then why such weird variations with the BL touch?

I am doing these tests to try and figure out why I get such poor infill patterns that amount to a bowl of spaghetti.
 

Tony

Staff member
Spaghetti for infill can be the result of too slow of an extraction speed. Especially if you have changed your drive rollers.
 

bigone5500

Well-Known Member
I think I may have figured out my spaghetti issue. During print the extruder starts slipping. I know the hot end is hot enough and when it starts slipping, the infill gets messed up. I'll try to do a calibration on the steps/mm tomorrow.
 

Tony

Staff member
Yep, that is why I went with a dual extruder drive system on mine. Way more aggressive. Easy fix is to slow the travel down since infill usually goes pretty fast.
 
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