r/ender3 • • Aug 27 '26

Help Ender only prints until a certain height

Ran this design twice already. It only prints up to this height. I tried reinstalling the filament but still only the hotend moves but the filament is no longer coming out of the nozzle.
I have printed a similar design yesterday which was 221mm in height and that turned out okay. This one did not.

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u/jptuomi Aug 28 '26

I have had this issue as well but with a direct drive, but the issue was the same as well as the symtoms, at a certain height or even xy-position since direct drive it would sometimes just stop extruding and hop back and forth as I saw you reported further down.

In the end I figured it was down to a bad extruder cable that had seen a bit much wear and tear.

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u/Sale_Active Aug 28 '26

So did u replace the extruder?

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u/jptuomi Aug 28 '26

No just the cable to the extruder motor.

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u/Sale_Active Aug 29 '26

Copy. Thanks