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I recently picked up a bottle of Monocure 3D Flex 100 clear. It seems to be really watery and runny compared to the other resins I've had.. It's also not curing correctly on the top bed. Is it supposed to be runny? Have I got a bad bottle?

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How much more reliable is the peopoly moai?
Seriously thinking of returning my photon, it's just too unreliable. Just when you think you've got the technique down it fails a dozen times in a row. I've reached the point where I'm spending far too long messing with the printer and haven't had time to move forward with my electronics design in a month or so.

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Hi everyone, I just got my printer recently and I've looked into the ventilation of the photon, and I found the adapter on thingiverse
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2877754/files
but it seems too big to print with my printer, do I have to cut it into piece or something to print or do people have another printer that can print bigger pieces?

is there any services that I can use to have it printed out for me?

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ChiTuBox question.

When I set up a print, how do I REMOVE supports?

I'm clicking on remove support and click the support which makes it change color but it is not getting removed.

I must be missing something here.

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Has anyone used the Anycubic Aqua Blue at .02 layer height?

If so can you recommend what to use for the Normal exposure time, off time, Bottom Exposure time and number of Bottom layers?

New to gauging exposure times and the spreadsheet has settings for .05 only.

Any help appreciated.

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Howdy, y’all. I have a new Photon S, and I can’t get it to print. I have a lot of FDM experience, but this is my first resin printer. I will contact Anycubic tomorrow, but I figured I’d post here to see if anyone has had a similar experience:
Whether I slice in the Photon slicer or ChiTuBox (exporting to filetype .photons), I have the same problem. The sliced file looks fine if I re-open it in the slicer - the layers have images that step through correctly. When I load the files on the printer, I see them correctly in the print screen, including the little 3D thumbnail image. But when I print any of them, I get zero curing. I confirm that the UV lamp is coming on correctly for the amount of time per layer that I set in the slicer - I can see it through the crack in the case above the UI screen. But the LCD is fully masked - the whole screen is activated to block the UV. So no curing happens. This happens with every file I slice in either slicer. This same thing happens with the PHOTON.photons presliced lattice cube that came with the printer. Also, I think the image on the UI is supposed to show an image of the mask for each layer, right? Well it shows a solid black layer each time, so that and the LCD are in sync.

Additional information:
- build plate is level and zero’d. I tried both the paper method and the Flint Read method. Anyway, this is irrelevant because the problem is with the mask and not with the leveling.
- the LCD test is successful. I see the rectangle. It just doesn’t work right when reading a sliced file.
- I tried using the Photonsters sliced file editor to see if I could figure out what is wrong inside the .photons files. But the tool only works with .photon and not with .photons files.
* another possibly important piece of info is that after I run a print, whether I cancel it or let it run to completion, the printer UI freezes on the print screen. The UI screen is unresponsive and I have to flip the power switch.
- power cycling the printer will reset things, but I still have the same issue the next time around.
- I checked the cat to see if I somehow missed a protective liner sheet that was on the FEP and somehow blocked UV, but no. Also, I can see that the LCD is masking every pixel when the UV lamp comes on.

* one idea - in order to export to .photons from chitubox, I had to set up a new generic printer config from scratch. I set all the parameters to be the same as the settings that come up if you select a default Photon config. The only exception being that on the advanced tab on a new config, there are gcodes defined so you can make your files talk correctly to your given printer. The default Photon config does not even show these gcodes, so I have no idea of what is automatically populated for a generic printer config. I left them as they were auto generated and sliced the file. Then, the FIRST sliced file I ran on the printer was one that I sliced with this config in chitubox. I wonder if those gcodes were wrong, and were saved to the printer EEPROM. Now perhaps every print that I run, even if sliced in the photon slicer, doesn’t work because there’s a bad gcode for “activate lamp” or something saved in there. That doesn’t actually make sense with how I understand gcode to work, but I’m grasping at straws here. Actually, do these Photon printers even use gcode?

Anyway, sorry for the novel, but I’m pretty frustrated with my resin experience so far. At least now I figured out that the mask is the issue - I just need to figure out WHY it’s not actually following the layer images in the sliced file...

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I was able to get the Raspbery camera working and streaming with the thumb drive mod. I've noticed normal thumb drives activity light goes off once every layer. It would be sweet if you could somehow take a picture each time the photon reads the USB.

It should be possible to use OctoPi as an interface and have uploaded files show up to the USB drive, in addition to the samba network share. (Currently do this on my FDM printer. I can upload either way). Camera controls would be already installed but OctoPi won't start a time lapse unless it's controlling the print. Now, if anyone knows how to add a manual start time lapse button via plugin (or detecting a USB read.... Somehow) That would answer most users wants for network capabilities.

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Will it cause problems to mix different color resins? I have just a little left in the tank and curious if I can add another kind.

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Good evening friends, from here in Mexico you wish all good impressions.
today I made an impression of multiple copies and unfortunately some copies did not work out well. in this print use a red casting resin with the configuration that is seen in the photo help friends I have delivery this work (8 pieces I have 4 of 8). thanks to all !!!!

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Ok It still has some work to go but these things take time. The original is on the left of course, and I made a few small changes to the overall suit.

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