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    • Edkirkundefined
      Edkirk
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      I am using your mini IR probe, absolutely the best. I had painted the underside of my first E3D glass white because I didn’t like the black, couldn’t see how the first layer was going down. At that time I was using a touch prob, it never worked very well. The high temperature white spray paint is very flat or dull, goes on rough. I cure the paint by laying it on the heated bed paint side up for several hours at the highest temperature I am comfortable with. then rub the dust off with a cloth between coats. My comment is just to provide feedback on an accidental discovery that works great.

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      • Leblondundefined
        Leblond
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        Forgive me, if I have not made myself alive before.
        @dc42 I'll settle you as soon as I finish my experiment and post my data.
        As you well remember "let me give you some .." you asked me about the mesh, now since the aluminum base for all the efforts you make .. it expands too much in height since it is stopped in the 4 corners for leveling , so I thought to use a glass plate ultra-base and put it on the sheet of prinbite, I will try 'to calibrate cold for, and then hot starting from 100 degrees celsius, and then get to 120, according to you it will work '?, now ban to ciancie and below with the work ... a later

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        • Leblondundefined
          Leblond
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          Here I am

          @dc42 What do you say? the first photo is with G32, the second one with G29 mesh 20x20

          0_1543264889169_auto bed G32 120 gradi calibrato.jpg 0_1543264909687_auto bed G29 120 gradi calibrato mesh20x20.jpg

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          • dc42undefined
            dc42 administrators
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            The only reason the first one looks better is that it has only 5 points. It looks to me that the bed is flat, so I suggest you use either no bed compensation at all, or a 2x2 mesh, or a 3x3 mesh.

            Duet WiFi hardware designer and firmware engineer
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            • Leblondundefined
              Leblond
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              @dc42 Good afternoon, do you mean 20x20 and 30x30 mm? why a 2x2 or 3x3 shirt gives me error, or am I doing wrong?

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              • SupraGuyundefined
                SupraGuy
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                I constantly need to remind myself that the display for the mesh grid really exaggerates roughness. There is a grand total of 0.095mm total difference between the highest and lowest points in that mesh. This is pretty much invisible to the naked eye. (It appears that there is a slight tilt with the far left corner being higher than the near right corner overall.)

                Chances are you'd need a machinist's straight edge to see these imperfections. There may be some measurement error in them as well, but I don't think that any kind of probe is going to be perfect. A total error of 0.1mm is enough to cause you some issues, but using a 3X3 mesh with a surface like this is almost certain to yield good results.

                If I had results like this, I'd probably turn off mesh compensation, and just not bother with it. Actually, I think that my last set of results wasn't too dissimilar, and when I was having trouble with my Z probe, I did have it turned off, and I managed some reasonably large prints with a very good first layer.

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                • Leblondundefined
                  Leblond
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                  @SupraGuy The problem is that I've always had the printer this way and I've also had a fight with geeetech, but water passed ...
                  I'm printing a vase, and the first layer is practically perfect, I'm printing ABS at 220 degrees celsius and 120 layer dish 0.2.
                  You know after so many sleepless nights with this stamps I'm having excellent results, sial with the prinbite print plane "It had to be opaque, instead it is semi opaque almost shiny" both with the mini ir of @dc42, so that works so I leave stay the printer, in the meantime I'm organizing to build one from scratch.

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                  • SupraGuyundefined
                    SupraGuy @Leblond
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                    @leblond said in Best surface for IR probe accuracy:

                    @dc42 Good afternoon, do you mean 20x20 and 30x30 mm? why a 2x2 or 3x3 shirt gives me error, or am I doing wrong?

                    I think what he's talking about is to change the mesh grid definition.

                    @leblond said

                    M557 X20:200 Y10:190 S56 ; Define mesh grid

                    (That doesn't look like it should produce that 10 x 10 mesh though.) the mesh that would produce that is 180mm x 180mm at 20mm spacing, so
                    M557 X20:200 Y10:190 S20 ; Define mesh grid

                    I think that he was talking about changing the spacing, so that your grid doesn't have quite so many points in it.

                    M557 X20:200 Y10:190 S90 ; Define mesh grid
                    This would make a 3X3 grid, still covering the 180mm x 180mm space, but with only 9 data points, instead of 100. The resultant map would look a lot like your 5 point grid, but with data points at the halfway mark along each edge.

                    M557 X20:200 Y10:190 S180 ; Define mesh grid
                    This would only probe the 4 corners, which would give you a resultant plane.

                    Using fewer data points, you could have the probe repeat the process with less inconvenience, and probing would take less time.

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                    • dc42undefined
                      dc42 administrators @Leblond
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                      @leblond said in Best surface for IR probe accuracy:

                      @dc42 Good afternoon, do you mean 20x20 and 30x30 mm? why a 2x2 or 3x3 shirt gives me error, or am I doing wrong?

                      As @SupraGuy says, I was referring to the number of probe points, not the spacing. I'm sorry that I didn't make that clear.

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                      • Leblondundefined
                        Leblond
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                        Ok ok, now I understand, as soon as possible I will do it and post data, thanks for the answers

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