<p>I have a problem most likely very similar to some reported by other users: extruder stepper is visually skipping a step from time to time. It rapidly rotates in the direction opposite to the one it is supposed to rotate.</p>
<p>I noticed the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>The extruder stepper jumps totally randomly - there is nothing specific in the pattern printed, position etc.</li>
<li>Stepper jumps more often on the infill, rarely on the walls.</li>
</ul>
<p>Details about print:</p>
<ul>
<li>PLA (Devil Design - various colors, they doesn't matter)</li>
<li>Filament guide installed on top, but not yet before the extruder (it is printing right now, I'm waiting for the ball bearings too)</li>
<li>Filament mounted on the top - in the place defined by Creality</li>
<li>Extruder is already replaced with the aluminium one</li>
<li>The mainboard is SKR E3 mini V2 (replaced recently)</li>
<li>95% flow set in Cura</li>
<li>Printing on glass, leveled bed (the jumping occurs on all layers, not only first)</li>
<li>215 °C hotend temperature, 60 °C bed temperature</li>
<li>Stepper motor current settings (from Marlin menu): 580 for X, Y &amp; Z, 650 for E1</li>
</ul>
<p>Other observations:</p>
<ul>
<li>What's interesting is that extruder motor jumps even if I manually unwind some filament, so that the only force that it has to overcome is only pushing filament into the head.</li>
<li>I did a quick DIY wooden spool holder, so that the filament was fed almost horizontally. This actually seemed to make things worse - stepper jumped more often. I moved spool to the top again and it reduced jumping a little.</li>
<li>Prints are done beatifully (after changing the motherboard, that is) - no lost lines or layers, walls connected with infill, perfect first layer etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>What may be the cause of stepper motor jumping? How can I solve it? Does it pose a threat to the motor or stepper? I need to print filament guide and spool holder with ball bearings, so that I can minimize force required by the extruder motor, but then the stepper will probably jump during the prints. I already damaged the original mainboard because of stuck filament, I don't want to destroy another one.</p>
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<p>This is how regular extruder retraction looks:</p>
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                <iframe width="640px" height="395px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h0c7APCTKLM?start=0"></iframe>
            </div></div> (10 seconds)</p>
<p>This is how stepper skipping looks:</p>
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                <iframe width="640px" height="395px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KCmNs9ixzPQ?start=0"></iframe>
            </div></div> (13 seconds)</p>
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<p>Today I replaced the whole heat block (radiator, heater, thermistor and nozzle) to a new one (original, for now) and motor stopped skipping - at least on the calibration cube. I will see, how will it perform on more complex prints.</p>
<p>However, even having the prior one in hands, I couldn't find the reason, why motor was skipping - other than the fact, that I couldn't extract the bowden tube from the radiator (so maybe some filament indeed was dripping inside?)</p>

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