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Very curious to see how much this impacts print quality!
I have my doubts that it makes a significant difference in actual print quality though. Looking at polymaker for example, they specify a tolerance of +-0.02mm on diameter for 97% of the material, and the article mentions an effective accuracy of this sensor of +-0.015mm.
Maybe the best tuned perfectly calibrated hobbyist printer will see a difference, but for a regular well-tuned printer I think this is is more of a cool novelty mod.
Largely agree, but I am curious. I also have an ethos of "trust, but verify" which this sensor scratches at. Why not measure even high quality filament?
It's not that much more than a traditional runout sensor, so it seems worth springing for it your printer doesn't have one.