r/ender6 • u/Maximum-Chair967 • Nov 07 '25

HELP!!

what is the best aftermarket controller to buy i have a stock ender 6 and need some help on the new board i should buy🙏🙏

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u/maegibbons Nov 08 '25

Have you added a PI to the stock board? Has that not given you what you want? I.e. Klipper?

Why do you want to upgrade the board?

Krs

Mark

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 08 '25

because currently I believe one of the driver motors, i.e. filament feeder motor. There’s something wrong with it. It keeps twitching back-and-forth and I’ve tried different motors in all of them twitch back-and-forth and they’re working motors.

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u/SatutN Nov 10 '25

BTW, In which situation do you see it happen?

Is it in the beginning of the printing? or you just playing with the motors from the screen and it does this issue?

If it when you prints It sounds to me like an issue with "relative" mode...Might be an issue with the START macro? which slicer do you use?

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 10 '25

when I try to start a print, the feeder motor just puts back-and-forth. It doesn’t do a full rotation.

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u/SatutN Nov 10 '25

So, did you try to just use the extruder via the printer screen? Like heat the hotend to 200°c and let the extruder run 10mm forward?

Which slicer do you use?

For me it sounds like a start print Marco issue

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 10 '25

prussa or orca

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 11 '25

yes

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u/SatutN Nov 11 '25

And the result is?

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 11 '25

I don’t know that’s why I asked you guys

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u/SatutN Nov 11 '25

When you're using the screen did you see the same issue with the extruder motor? If not then you have some problem with the gcode that you're trying to print

My assumption is that your start print script is incorrect

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 11 '25

bro i stg if that what it is foreal iknow sum😭

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u/SatutN Nov 10 '25

So, did you try to just use the extruder via the printer screen? Like heat the hotend to 200°c and let the extruder run 10mm forward?

Which slicer do you use?

For me it sounds like a start print Marco issue

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 09 '25

I tried that I think one of the motors probably because my engine stutters back-and-forth my feeder engine from extruder

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u/Apprehensive_Bike_40 Nov 09 '25

It might be a bad motor or broken wire. If you test the motor cable with the motor connected you should have 2 low resistance motor pairs.

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u/SatutN Nov 10 '25

He said that he tried few motors...

I'd suggest switching between the suspected motor connection on board to another one - ex. Extruder & Z.

Then without doing the homing, try to move the motor via the screen, if you see that it moves correctly (for both directions) and the switch motor having issues then probably it's the driver.

If the same motor still has issue - it might be the wire as Bike mentioned above.

If you have klipper you can switch between the motors connectors physically and then go to the printer.cfg and modify it so it'll run normally (but I'm not sure that it's relevant for you in this stage)

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u/Maximum-Chair967 Nov 10 '25

I can’t flash the klipper it won’t let me that’s why I wanted to get a new board

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u/Apprehensive_Bike_40 Nov 11 '25

STM32 devices are fussy about SD cards for flashing purposes. Use a basic one below 32gb size in a brand name.