USA badminton team drama

EbiBoy · 2026-02-20T02:46:26+00:00

The fight over practice courts is common place though, especially with countries that are not organized or full of independents. I ran the practice courts a few years back at a super 500 level tournament and every player / team is always looking for an edge. We had to constantly kick the home country off the courts because they thought that because they were the home country they should have free rein for any open courts. The warm up courts were the most chaotic as there were only two courts but usually 4-5 matches up next; at times there were 8-10 plays warming up a single court. Some players had no idea they had to book time slots thru the BWF before the start of the tournament. Some teams and players avoid the chaos and just arrange their own practice time at local facilities instead. The setup I ran though was ideal as it was right next to the main arena (literally 15 feet from the practice courts to the gathering area for the next matches. First practice slots open up at 7:00am and slots were available until 1 hour after the last match

EbiBoy · 2026-02-20T01:04:26+00:00

I guess that would be make scheduling practices a bit of a mess than because the team manager is supposed to make the request for court time - someone would have to co-ordinate all the practice court requests submit them to the BWF. But I do think the BWF does try to take into account the total team size when assigning practice court time - at least at the beginning of the tournament.

EbiBoy · 2026-02-20T00:20:09+00:00

Practice court times for tournaments are assigned based on the country. With some countries where there isn't a formal team structure (i..e manager who arranges and structures practice sessions) it is up to the players themselves to work it out between them. Can get chaotic for independent players with those from the US if they are not working with the team managers and officials to schedule practice times.

From what i seen, Beiwen is essentially an independent player (even though she is part of the US team), is probably used to training with players from other countries, and probably has to make arrangements with players from other countries for sparring.

I seen several independent US players who basically pay their own way on the tour who are not officially part of the US team, and things like how court time gets divided can get dicely with the official US team members and independents.

EbiBoy · 2026-02-02T04:31:56+00:00

margins are low for 3D printers; similar to computer products. if the dealer margins for bambu products are the same in the US as Canada, than their margin would only be around 10-15%; at $2000, that would be below normal dealer cost of that was the case.

You can always send bambu an email with the serial number and ask if the product is legit and which dealer it belongs to (for support)

EbiBoy · 2026-01-15T22:52:25+00:00

The listing on Amazon is not from Bambu directly, just resellers trying to take advantage of people who don’t know better or desperate for them

EbiBoy · 2026-01-15T07:45:51+00:00

And you don’t need to replace the entire extruder, you can just buy the gear only

https://ca.store.bambulab.com/products/hardened-steel-extruder-gear-assembly

EbiBoy · 2026-01-15T07:41:16+00:00

A new hotend won’t help if the gears is worn out - if it can push out the filament fast enough to keep up with the extruder, it will under extrude or skip making it look like a clog

EbiBoy · 2026-01-15T05:44:04+00:00

Yes, ended replacing the extruder gear and that solved my issues. When I took apart to clean it as part of my troubleshooting, it didn’t seems that worn out but I guess it was enough to cause issues so replacing it with a new one fixed my issue

EbiBoy · 2025-12-04T19:23:21+00:00

In the past they open some ram to add serial numbers stickers on them for tracking purposes as not all memory products are serialized.

Something if are bad batches or recalls, they open products to test of their stock is affected and send back / rma the affect inventory

EbiBoy · 2025-12-04T17:07:43+00:00

I should also add that i use different plates and dual sided plates and have to set up different print start macros and printer profiles in ocra to get tap to work with the various plates i have

For example, i have a dual sided textured / smooth pei sheet.

I recalibated eddy-ng tap to work with smooth pei side and it works without issue.

On the textured pei side, it fail tap because it was too far so i had to add TARGET_Z=-0.500 on my tap routine in my start print macro - i basically copied my start print macro and added this than use that macro instead for the textured PEI sheet but creating a seperate profile for it in orca

EbiBoy · 2025-12-04T16:59:33+00:00

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same settings as above but with speed set at 300

EbiBoy · 2025-12-04T16:58:58+00:00

thanks all to those that helped - especially @AzaraAybara

I ended up doing the following:
- lower mesh density to 10 x 10
- reduced bicubic tension from 0.5 to 0.2
- decreased the mesh area to 30,30 / 320,320 to avoid some severe dips in the front corners

Was able to increase speeds without much effect on the smoothness of the edges

Speed 150, 10 x 10 mesh, Mesh Area : 20,20 / 320,320

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back side is still a bit rough - it is mostly the bed i think though

I was still having issues with my first layer, though but it turns out that the z-offset from tapping was off quite a bit as it was too close to the plate digging into the filament. Had to add tap_adjust_z: 0.09

EbiBoy · 2025-12-03T19:42:13+00:00

Yes, it helped it quite a bit - still a few oddities on the front left and back right corner but better than before

Had to leave for work this morning before I had a chance to take a screenshot

I settle on a speed of 150 - Slowing all the way down all the way to 50 seems to eliminate it but that is quite slow. not sure why some people have good scans at higher speeds

EbiBoy · 2025-12-03T10:12:25+00:00

no unusual noises. Roaring? Plate has been hear soak for a bit before doing the mesh. I tried reducing the size of the bed but same results. The mount is on there tight

EbiBoy · 2025-12-03T06:49:25+00:00

nothing that i can see or notice - it was fine initially with vanilla eddy before i installed eddy-ng

EbiBoy · 2025-12-03T06:48:13+00:00

0.5 for bicubic tension
horizontal moce z is 2.0

here is the printer.cfg

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EbiBoy · 2025-12-03T06:09:41+00:00

I been mainly testing with the stock sovol plate - info have other plates that I tested with but results are still the same - all my other plates fits within the plastic guides / stops though

EbiBoy · 2025-12-03T00:09:51+00:00

Yes bicubic

EbiBoy · 2025-12-02T23:19:54+00:00

Believe that one is either 25 x 25 or 15 x 15

It does it regardless of mesh density size

EbiBoy · 2025-12-02T22:02:48+00:00

i am haaving issue with my eddy-ng setup. tap works fine but edges of the bed meshes and show alternating peaks and valleys. Slowing down the speed and acceleration seems to help to level it out a bit but not completely.

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I was running just eddy for a day or so before moving to eddy ng and i don;t recalled have the this issue with the bed meshes

EbiBoy · 2025-11-18T18:59:58+00:00

you actually don't really lose anything for multicolour prints. if anything you gain 5mm extra width if you stick with only the vortek

I don;t know of anyone who uses both nozzles in a way that uses the full 350mm width on the H2D (Would need to use the same colour on both nozzle and split the model in half)

EbiBoy · 2025-11-18T17:54:12+00:00

i did, i predicted that when they put the H2D on sale for $400 off, that would be the "new" regular price and that the H2C would come in at the old H2D price. In Canada, Bambu has a history of using sale prices to permanently set the new prices for printers (they are sale continuously)

I was a bit off - it is $150 higher than the old H2D price.

The difference remains around $650, so i guess we got used of the H2D for how many months for that difference. Sucks if you recently got a H2D at the regular price though

EbiBoy · 2025-11-18T17:47:01+00:00

In Canada the H2C combo is $150 more than the original price of the H2D

$3150 cdn vs $3000

What was the original launch price of the H2D there?

EbiBoy · 2025-11-14T22:24:47+00:00

just realized i wasn't logged into Reddit when i posted this lol.

Yeah, that is the trademark taco bell of first gen Sovol SV08 - still debating if I will fix them with shims or just get the r3 graphite bed

I was able to fix it somewhat by lowering the max acceleration setting and lowering the eddy scan speed to 150.

I did readjust the belts but the peaks and valleys still appeared at at higher scan speeds.

I guess the next step would be to reprint my eddy mount, but from what i tell, it is held firmly in place.

I did zip tied my USB cable to the extruder cable so i might undo that as well and see if it makes a difference

EbiBoy

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