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Add Bed Sensor

Adding a bed sensor, CL or BL touch, is fairly easy, but you have to follow directions.

For most printers if you add one you have to remove the Z endstop.

The firmware probably has to be updated. You need firmware that supports the touch. I have never run Klipper but there is probably something in the parameters it loads about the touch.

The sensor just measures where the bed is in relation to the sensor. The printer needs to know where the nozzle is in relation to the sensor. The firmware for Marlin has the X and Y offset compiled in. You set the Z offset in the control panel.

The gcode you use to print stuff needs codes to use/create the mesh. If the gcide is missing no mesh will be used to level. This is usually in the start gcode and you have to change it.

Don’t ask me for specifics. Ask who you got the upgrade from.