Quote Originally Posted by printbus View Post
My guess is that the Y motor also has more work to do. Anyone know how the weight of the Y bed, heater, glass, and rolling hardware compares to the X-carriage and extruder parts? Plus, as the print grows, the weight that the Y-motor needs to move around keeps going up...
All very good points Printbus. Keeping that in mind it might make sense to look at the part being printed and the orientation it is being printed in. If the part is much narrower in x than y, for the same reason it might make sense to reorient the print to put the longer direction on the x axis.