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I have a puzzle to figure out. Photon S with it's parallel LED, normal FEP right next to an Epax X1-DJ (newest parallel LED, standard epax non-fep). Exact same resin at the same temperature. Exact same .photon file, since both machines can read that. Attached is a shot of the settings.. both printing at .02 layer height and 6s exposure, which works with this resin in both machines. I press start at the same time on both printers. When the EPAX is done, the photon S still has 3 hours left to go. Why?

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Has anyone tried playing with lift lift/retract speeds and seen an observable difference? Something like these two options (or similar)?

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Has anyone tried making a vat-focused heater? This design seems really smart (translate to english). I have printed and run the photon fan heating unit introduced here, but it was hard to fit in the dual z rail photon S. Ended up cramming it in the top side corner. This would also be a lot more efficient as less heat is wasted to unnecessary areas.

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Interesting observation to share. Two print beds (each was two legs and an arm). Left side failed, right side successful. Printed one after the next (failure first) with only one variable changed - the FEP sheet. The FEP sheet (pictured) did not have any dents or holes--but had a little wear area that felt rough. Was not possible to clean the wear area even soaking with IPA, etc. You can see in the print where the wear area was the portion that failed.

I think it is interesting because when printing we have a lot of variables to consider--but this is an example of a specific FEP-related failure. I had an inkling it was the FEP because of other prints having problems and I keep two vats ready. But one could have also chased down a lot of other issues like LCD failures, some kind of problem with the file/supports, build plate leveling etc. This was just a little wear spot on the film.

NOTE - this is actually "non-fep" from epax. Which, other than this strange failure on a two week old sheet, has been working pretty well.

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.02 @ 8s elegoo grey w/ 10% monocure flex. STLs credit to Nmassimo @ thingiverse ( https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3299215 ) 翻譯年糕

So I finally got around to upgrading my Photon S firmware to v5.0.2 this week and it has been a real game changer. I'm amazed I'm not seeing more people chatting about it on here. Things it has impacted for me:

1. The vat peel function is amazing. See pic. Instead of pulling out the vat, I just wait 45 seconds, grab the corner, and pull the residue in nice neat layer straight out of it. I don't even pull the vat out of the machine. It makes those inevitable print failures a lot less painful and time-consuming.

2. Enabling .photon file format has finally given me (roundabout) AA support in Chitubox. In Chitu I use the Photon printer profile modded with photon S settings and can slice the files just fine with AA. Note--I tried the configuration trick to get the Photon S profile to show the antialias settings and that doesn't work--the sliced file is still the same size and not the bigger antialiased one.

3. Photon file validator!! I've always been sad I couldn't use this... but now I can just output in .photon and go about it. The software side of things is the only downside I've ever considered to the S model--I like the higher wattage lamp and dual rail. Now I've started running everything through it.

4. Proper resin exposure test. I did both the RERF anycubic stl file and one a member here uploaded to thingiverse (more traditional flat style one) and both confirmed my settings were correct. But it was great to have another way to properly confirm that. Future resins will be much less troublesome as well.

Downsides - I've heard of some people having trouble opening files but I haven't run into that. The only thing different I've noticed is the first print I did--testing a known good file (.photons, sliced in chitu) that I just printed before the firmware update--printed fine but the print time estimate went from 13h to 16h. I'm not sure if it took that long because I didn't come back right on time and didn't run a separate timer. ?‍♂️

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Is anyone using the latest firmware with the Photon S and Chitubox? If so, have you tried modifying the printer profile to force the AA option to be available with any success? Seems like it should be OK if they had just flipped it on in that machine profile?

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Print details - models "Angelic Knight" and "Necromancer"
printed at .02 layer height, photon S, scaled up to approx 80mm height & sliced in chitubox. Elegoo grey w/ 10% monocure flex. Zenithal primed with vallejo black & grey primers and golden titanium white (airbrush). 翻譯年糕

Hey everyone! Can anyone who has upgraded please share any feedback with respect to v5 firmware on the photon S? Like, can you just keep on trucking along with printing chitubox sliced .photons like before? I'd really like to upgrade to get the previous versions bug fix list. Like the ability to use long filenames. Oh and to "improve 2k lcd stability" ? I've heard a few "I can't print .photons" reports but I'm wondering if there are a bunch of silent success stories?

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