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@T3P3Tony

You're welcome. This forum was very helpful in getting a few of the details sorted out with the controller... as I dive into deeper I'm sure I will have more questions!

Give this method a shot.

https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Guide/Ender+3+Pro+and+Duet+Maestro+Guide+Part+4:+Calibration/40#s165

@Veti said in Z and E Calibration Conundrum:

@doublec4 said in Z and E Calibration Conundrum:

I will print and weigh some models tomorrow. I'm happy with the result but I'm still a little baffled as to why I would have to reduce my E steps so much ... seems like a major disconnect between what the slicer thinks I need for mm vs what I actually need when printing.

i tend to reduce my e steps by 10% ob my printers, dont know why but it does produces better prints.

Similarly, I always use an extrusion multiplier of 95%. I'm not able to provide a link right now but somebody did a lot of work and came to the conclusion that printed parts can tolerate quite a high degree of under extrusion without any adverse consequences but are very intolerant of over extrusion. My own tests tend to agree (usual caveats about slicers, settings etc).

@Phaedrux There is a caveat to that advice, which is regarding mixing hot ends such as the Diamond. In such cases, the volume of plastic in the melt chamber is very much greater and can have a significant effect. So my advice for mixing hot ends is to always run the PID tuning with filament loaded. BUT, as you rightly point, this will "cook" any loaded filament, so it is important to purge that out at the end of the the tuning process.

Thanks, I had wired it based on that... or so I had thought... turns out I assumed common wiring convention of red = Vcc and black = GND was silly of me. Dremel does it backwards.