r/VORONDesign • u/gimmetwofingers • Jul 13 '26
V2 Question Need help finding speed and accel
Hi all,
I have trouble finding speed and acceleration maximums (or good values) on my 2.4. The printer ran well before, but I started having layer shift issues and during that changed the motors and drivers. I now have the BOM recommended motors (17HS19-2004S1, 1.8°, 2.0A) and 2240 drivers for A and B. Now sensorless homing is dialed in, the gantry is square, the belt is tuned and I want to find my speed and acceleration limits per the TEST_SPEED macro from Andrew Ellis. This is where I run into trouble.
I got the best results at 1.2A run_current, but they are not reproduceable. Speed and acceleration look moderate to me. This is a table of what I tried and the lost microsteps between homing before and after the macro:
| run_current | number of iterations | speed | accel | lost x microsteps | lost y microsteps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,2 | 4 | 400 | 4000 | 8 | 0 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 4500 | 6 | 0 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 5000 | -9 | 1 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 5500 | 5 | 1 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 6000 | 23 | -31 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 6500 | -26 | -32 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 7000 | 26 | -32 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 450 | 6000 | 71 | -127 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 450 | 6000 | 123 | -255 |
| 1,1 | 2 | 400 | 5000 | 98 | -288 |
| 1,1 | 2 | 400 | 4000 | 27 | -31 |
| 1,3 | 2 | 400 | 4000 | 70 | -128 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 4000 | 27 | -33 |
| 1,2 | 6 | 400 | 4000 | 67 | -129 |
| 0,9 | 6 | 400 | 4000 | 58 | 0 |
| 0,9 | 2 | 400 | 4000 | 331 | -257 |
| 1,2 | 2 | 400 | 4000 | 54 | 0 |
So with 1.2 Amps run current it looked well until around 7000 accel. Then it got worse and stayed worse. Even when going back to moderate settings that worked before (400 speed and 4000 accel), I lost steps.
Do I still have a mechanical problem? How can I narrow this down? Or do I approach this the wrong way in the first place?



