It's almost certainly your power supply. Of the 4 Geeetech i3s me and my friend have, all of the power supplies had problems. 1 the voltage switch was broken, another only could put out 10 volts, the 3rd worked fine for about 8 months then suddenly could only put out 7 volts, and the last one, would cut out for a second or 2 every once in a while, which resulted in motor skips. Measure the voltagby dhmclean - Prusa i3 and variants
Quotesarf2k4 @dhmclean Are you sure that you used the correct layer height with your threaded rod size? If you are using an m8 thread rod paired with 0.24mm, that is not an optimal layer can be seen here . Because 0.24mm I think are suitable for something like imperial type threaded rod, not metric based Thanks for the link. I didn't realize there were optimal layer heights for different lead sby dhmclean - Prusa i3 and variants
Please help diagnose my Geeetech printing problem. I have attached 2 photos. The first is before cutting the threaded rods short, the other is after. There are still a fair amount of jagged edges, however it has improved. I have slowed down acceleration, and jerk. I also printed with various extrusion rates and with a layer height of both .24 and .12 . It is always the same result. You can see moby dhmclean - Prusa i3 and variants
I have fixed the C-clamp issue on mine with this: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:829408 Thanks to all who have provided upgrade ideas. I am going to implement some of these suggestions.by dhmclean - Prusa i3 and variants