v3 SE proper practices?

Ender Series Creality Ender-3 V3 KE/SE
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I’ve got the v3 SE model - and the sonic pad to run it. I’ve noticed a things and want to see if I’m understanding this properly.

Last night I did the Z offset test, followed by the auto-level procedure. Sometimes when I do this, it asks me if I want to save the settings to the printer.cfg file. But normally I say “no”, because there’s a warning about maybe glitching Klipper if something is askew.

Last night I said “yes”, it told me to restart, and then when I started the next print the head dropped pretty might immediately to the bed and got stuck/tore a hole in the coating of the build plate.

I shut everything down, and this morning, it seems to be printing fine, although I need to buy a new build plate.

So question. When it says I need to restart, I’m guessing it means BOTH the sonic pad and the printer? Because just restarting the sonic pad didn’t seem to work. lol

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Hi Erich

No, you need to restart the printer just like you may do with a computer. I had a similar problem with the print head dropping down hard onto the print bed. Fortunately it didn’t do any admage but I had to reset the Z axis again.

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Sonic pad says to restart I always say yes and let it restart. I never restart the printer at that time. Once I have the z offset correct I do not calibrate every print, probably only recalibrate with a new nozzle or build plate. If you calibrate every print you will have to reset the z offset every print. Never had the nozzle smash into the bed, not sure what happened there. Same with my Ender 5+ which is also connected to the sonic pad. Of the belief that the Sonic pad becomes the brain and the printer is now “dumb” so rebooting the printer does nothing.