Looking at the video does anyone know why there is a stutter/chattering noise moving

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Looking at the video does anyone know why there is a stutter/chattering noise moving my Z right before it prints? I think it’s causing it to skip steps. It has crashed my nozzle into the glass several times right after I had the bed perfectly level and nozzle spaced with a business card for spacing.

I can move my Z up and down manually in repetier host and it always returns to the same spot.

Here are some details of my setup that might help:

Marlin firmware. Z is 8mm fine rod. Z is pulley reduced (20 tooth on motor 36 tooth on the rod). I have 1/8 microstep enabled on Z. I am using slic3r through repetier host.

Thanks for any help.

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Your rapids on your z are too high. When you start the program it rapids to z0 and alot of times the rapids are just too fast. I always home my z manually before I hit go. Otherwise I have the same issues.

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Found a quick Fix. Removed:
G1 Z5 F5000 ; lift nozzle
from Slic3r g-code setting.

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:slight_smile:

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@Joe_Spanier thanks for the tip

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f5000 is the speed. You could decrease is to something more reasonable.

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Yea I think mine is around 1000

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If you set your max-feedrate on the Z axis down a bit in your firmware, you can ensure with 100% certainty that your Z axis will never go faster than that speed (so that any slicer changes in the future don’t cause these issues.)

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My z speed is set to 50 I believe. Fast enough for my prusa…

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Thanks to everyone for the input. I could never have made my printer happen without all the inspiration from everyone here in the 3dprinting community, and all the support from the cumulative knowledge of the group.

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So that’s why some of my prints won’t stick to the bed! I think I also have Y acceleration set too high, because my prints sometimes jump a few millimetres in Y in the middle of fast infill patterns. What acceleration would be reasonable to achieve on a Prusa Mendel?

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@Hannes_Lilliefeldt I have mine with 8000 in both X and Y axis, but my solution to that was putting a limit (15 Hz in my case) on the “maximum frequency” which is the number of times per second that it changes directions on x/y axis in small zig-zags. It slows down the movement on that kind of places and it removes that kind of step skipping. Setting is on Marlin, on “Configuration_adv.h”, and it’s named “#define XY_FREQUENCY_LIMIT 15”

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Reduce acceleration and speed by half or more. Leave 2.5mm/s2 for acceleration, and 5mm/s max speed.

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your printing bed is quit heavy in relation to the motor.

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@Ronald_Burggraaf I know but there is so much mechanical advantage with the pulley reduction I think its ok. There is 5760 steps per the reprap calculator using 1/16 micro steps.