Z motors for bed leveling
Hi all.
I just came up with a good plan and then realized the flaw.
I was thinking as most printers use 2 motors for the z drive it may be possible to level the bed, at least in one axis, by driving them independently. Of course they are wired up in parallel so this is not possible unless...........
perhaps one of the 'spare' extruder headers could be configured for the second z motor and used the level the bed after z probing?
I just came up with a good plan and then realized the flaw.
I was thinking as most printers use 2 motors for the z drive it may be possible to level the bed, at least in one axis, by driving them independently. Of course they are wired up in parallel so this is not possible unless...........
perhaps one of the 'spare' extruder headers could be configured for the second z motor and used the level the bed after z probing?
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Am about to start my second DIY build and trying to decide 2 or 1 motors on z axis. Last one used one and belts and was very successful.
I liked being able to grab the motor and 'tweak' the first layer height as it was going down.