@Gunnars said in Flickering led on Smart Effector probe:

Then I noticed that if the heat bed was switched off then the probing went really well

It sounds like either your bed heater is generating very large magnetic fields, or you have a grounding problem or a PSU problem. What sort of bed heater is it?

The problem that remained was that when I was going to print, the nozzle went straight down into the heat bed and started printing at around -5mm

What do you have the trigger height set to in your G31 command? It should be about Z-0.1.