Added a PEI plate for my Artillery Genius using bull clips, and after leveling the leveling/adhesion test print comes out like this. Is this just me leveling the bed too close to the nozzle, or is it the pei plate not heating up as much as the original glass bed? It’s at 60c btw
Looks like that’s a magnetic spring steel bed. You need to use a magnetic plate below that that’s glued to the bed below.
The magnet will pull the spring steel bed flat.
It’s most likely an error with the nozzle height. The PEI plate not heating up enough shouldn’t cause the adhesion in the photo above (and this is not a first layer problem, as the error is not at a uniform height). Additionally, a few lines are very faintly visible on the plate where they shouldn’t be, indicating nozzle height. Make sure that it is easy to move a piece of paper between the nozzle and the PEI plate when adjusting the height, feeling only a very small amount of pressure as you do so.
Yeah looks like the plate was not fully flat to begin with. Making it attach fully flat to the glass bed made things a lot better
I usually have to run mine between 62-65, kinda depends how cold my house is but that’s the same bed I have on my sovols, also get a playing card and make sure you can barely feel the nozzle on the surface of the card. That’s how I do mine
slightly off topic:
do you have the bed start at e.g. 60 for the first layer and then 65 for subsequent layers?
does raising the temperature mid print like this help with warping or something?
I start at 62(and stay there) that’s the magic number i found for my sovol 6 and 6 plus, at lower I would experience warping and bad bed adhesion. And I’ve had the same correlation with mine at home and the 3 I have at work
The default glass bed works perfectly at 60. I’m wondering if there’s a temperature difference between the glass plate below and the pei plate above.
Honestly it looks like the nozzle could be too hot cause I don’t see any consisten lines
