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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Stefan Giudici
2019-03-27 13:47:10
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 13:49:53
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 13:51:19
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 13:51:51
Jeremy Lauzon
2019-03-27 14:17:18
Graham Leek
2019-03-27 14:34:47
Sen Kun
2019-03-27 14:35:44
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 14:53:50
Jeremy Lauzon
2019-03-27 14:56:35
Björn Ståhlnacke
2019-03-27 14:57:38
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 15:00:26
Sen Kun
2019-03-27 15:01:43
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 15:03:57
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 15:04:25
Jeremy Lauzon
2019-03-27 15:04:27
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 15:05:30
Kevin Boogaard
2019-03-27 16:10:55
Dylan Hancox
2019-03-27 16:25:05
Norbert Kupeczki
2019-03-27 17:25:22
Adrian Petre
2019-03-27 17:52:16
Patrick Nixon
2019-03-27 18:55:44
Bradley VanScoyk
2019-03-27 19:19:08
El Ner Endem
2019-03-27 20:30:03
Mike Roof
2019-03-27 21:38:28
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 21:50:54
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 21:53:57
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 21:55:01
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 22:26:46
Ocie Ward
2019-03-27 22:44:09
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 00:02:31
Piet Hoton
2019-03-28 00:31:37
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 00:51:39
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 01:20:10
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 01:23:59
Sen Kun
2019-03-28 05:55:30
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 06:04:22
Jeremy Lauzon
2019-03-28 06:06:01
Alex Varley
2019-03-28 06:07:59
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 06:13:21
Stefan Giudici
2019-03-28 06:21:32
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 06:27:47
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 06:30:49
Sen Kun
2019-03-28 06:39:36
Ocie Ward
2019-03-28 06:52:21
Alex Varley
2019-03-28 15:32:55
Ocie Ward
2019-03-29 04:05:08
Patrick Nixon
2019-03-29 04:49:25
Sen Kun
2019-03-29 13:22:16
Ocie Ward
2019-03-29 13:33:37
Sen Kun
2019-03-29 14:40:13
Ocie Ward
2019-03-29 21:44:56
Ocie Ward
2019-03-30 02:14:38
Ed Wilson
2019-03-30 02:27:19
Jeremy Lauzon
2019-03-30 02:29:57
Ocie Ward
2019-03-30 02:51:38
Ocie Ward
2019-04-30 06:36:37
Ocie Ward
2019-04-30 06:36:46
Sen Kun
2019-04-30 12:10:49
Ocie Ward
2019-05-01 01:29:56
Jose Elizondo
2019-05-03 11:35:27
Ocie Ward
2019-05-03 11:55:57
Mark Wardle
2019-05-03 12:02:11
Ocie Ward
2019-05-03 12:04:47
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