Alberta's COVID-19 situation worsens as protesters hold defiant rodeo - YouTube This is the advice I took when I bought new fans. TH3D has a good video on this topic.Alberta's COVID-19 situation worsens as protesters hold defiant rodeo - YouTube I think Tim is a real guru with 3d printing and what he says is valuable information for any of us.
Actually I have been staring at all the crap I bought to make my printer super clean and functional for three months waiting for my brain to settle down again so I can do this type of work. To tell the truth I was starting to get bored with printing since I went on my lithophane binge. I have been waiting with bated breath for Ender5r and Irv to get their new IDEX printers working so I could get excited about printing again. These are two guys that are capable of taking the kinks out of this machine. I shall sit in the audience and lap up their wisdom.
It’s also worth doing a PID tune (if your firmware supports it) every time you make modifications to the hotend. That will tune the heating algorithm and help keep temperatures stable during the print.
Similarly, applications like Octoprint (Fluidd and Mainsail if you’re running the excellent Klipper firmware) will show you what your printer is up to almost on a second-by-second graph which is really useful. Even to the point that it can give you a pretty good idea what your ambient temperature is.