Why is this happening? - Quality diminishes after a couple of minutes of printing.

[gleff 1]

Hi All,

 

I'm at my wits end here.  Everything was working great up until yesterday.  I'm not sure if this is an adhesion issue, levelling issue, filament issue, etc.

 

Basically, when I print something, the first little bit looks fine, but after a couple of minutes, the print starts deteriorating.  See this image.. This is just printing the Brim.

 

 

I hadn't changed anything in Cura, in fact, here's everything I've tried so far.

 

- Changed the Filament

- Replaced the Nozzle

- Cleaned the extruder with the metal prod that came with the printer

- Slowed down the Printing to 15mm/s for the Brim

- Put Cura back to default settings

- Went to an earlier version of Cura

- Checked the belts and they seem tight to me

- Re-Levelled the bed both Manually, and Auto Bed Levelling.  The bed levelling looks like it has a minor dip in the middle, but is mostly fine, and is pretty well the same as what it was when everything was working.  See below.

- Updated the firmware of the Sonic Pad, but was having the issue before the upgrade.

 

 

My hardware is a Creality Ender 5 S1, Sonic Pad, and i'm using eSun PLA+ filament.

 

I'm at a loss what else could be causing this when it was working great the other day.

 

I thought maybe it's moisture, but then, i've tried two filaments, and both start off fine, but then go to crap a couple of minutes in.

 

Any ideas what I can check next? 

 

Thanks

Geoff

[gleff 1]

I've resolved this.  I ended up doing a factory reset of the Sonic Pad, and then doing another re-levelling.  This solved the issues.  It must have been something within the Sonic Pad because I did 3 other levellings and those didn't fix the issue.  I don't use the Sonic Pad for anything other than remotely watching the print via the camera, and remotely sending print jobs to it, and remotely monitoring it.  So it wasn't a configuration issue.  

 

Oh well, at least the Factory Reset fixed the issue.  Back to doing a 3D print.