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muusemuuse Apr 28, 2025

cannot get an even first layer with a voron trident

https://lemm.ee/post/62620315

cannot get an even first layer with a voron trident - lemm.ee

I’ve never been able to get a clean first layer with this machine. I have given it a beacon probe and it just made it much faster to get the same problem to happen again. Where am I going wrong?

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VinS Apr 28, 2025

You have a lot of possible options here.

Your bed is ok, mine is 0.6 variation (sad I know)

dish soap with no additives, rinse and dry it correctly before installing it back

Verify that it’s doing this in the good order :

Pre-heat bed
Home XYZ
Bed leveling
Re home Z
Bed Mesh
Start print

If everything is ok, as someone else said, it’s maybe a X twist.

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muusemuuse Apr 28, 2025

I have reworked the start_print gcode macro to incorporate a heat soak before scanning for a mesh. While its running that 20 minute soak, I notice that the temperature reading on the beacon coil is actual dropping while everything else is increasing during the soak. Is just above the bed, in the center, doors closed, and its readings are getting steadily lower. What could possibly cause that?

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VinS

Heat soak should not change what you have here. During the heat soak, machine expands a little. You will get a more usefull Z / mesh when the machine gets to equilibrium.

If you still have problems after that, it’s probably a X twisted, see the linked document above. Unfortunately I do not have much time to dig into your configs.