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Time to spend hours and hours tuning the VFAs out of your thousand+ dollar printer.
Here's Noizie works multi month journey getting his fixed.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLidiPzhc9kgSJ2EYe1A-9-NTaamrSHyby
No need to do any of the physical mods. Prusa released software updates that also help so you might just need to skip to the end and do the belt tensioning.
I was under the impression that the vfas were caused by the belt teeth. I've also had those issues still after their last firmware update in July. Is there something that I'm missing?
Belt tensioning. They are caused by the teeth but ideal belt tensioning can lessen it.