I've been doing some more work on my printer and feel that I'm getting closer to resolving the issues. I still seem to be plagued mostly by what I would call the lack of "higher definition" in prints and of course the "blobs" which I think are happening at the layer change or even just a repositioning of the printer head.
PLA Hatchbox
215 1st layer
210 remaining layers
.04 nozzle
Bowden extruder
Retraction 3mm/50
I believe I was able to finally dial in the 1st layer, and the temp as can be seen from this print. To me it looks like a perfect first few layers and continues throughout the print. Notice there is a "blob" at the layer change, pretty consistent and also when the head moves. During this print, I made a change to the "extrusion factor" midway through to see the impact, so I think that is the abnormality that appears in the walls. Because of the shape in this print, the definition issue doesn't appear.
So I shot some more video and you can clearly see the print head stop at the layer change, which is where the blob is happening. So how do I get rid of that blob???
This was another model I was printing that required better detail. This is where I was noticing the lack of "detail" in the print, it just looks runny.. I also printed this model a second time with a layer height of .013 instead of .020, the detail perked up a bit but I'm not sure if its just masking a problem??
I apologize for dumping alot of info out there, just trying to put out as much info as I can so that I might get some guidance on how to resolve these issues.
VB,