Anycubic Photon Printer Owners 造訪社團 » firmware

I havent seen a post on this yet, but trying to update my firmware to v4.19 on my photon. I've downloaded the update from anycubic and have nothing but the files on the thumbstick that came with the printer. When I turn it on with the thumbstick inserted, it loads up normally and wont let me 'print' the files that show up. Any help would be appreciated. Would like to think I didnt buy a $200 paperweight

翻譯年糕

I have replaced the lcd twice in this machine and all i get is this. What would cause this? I dont know what else to do. I have upgraded the firmware to 4.2.19

翻譯年糕

I just wanted to follow up with the annoying frame shearing issues many have been having, especially around the 1 year mark. The answer to the fix is not a firmware update (I tried and got no improvement). It’s installing a new screen. Once I installed the new screen, my prints were coming out super clean again (I almost forgot what that even looked like!).

翻譯年糕

Hello folks!
Thanks a lot for many precious tips avilable here.

Conducting tests to improve printing size up to up to 1 mete r!
Since my Photon is under maintenance (dued to wobble issue), I'm conducting some test in order to discover real software potential.

I modified "__dlpconf_" file to following machineSize values (mm): X:68.04 Y:120.96 Z:1000
In simple terms I tried modify Photon printer profile in order to achieve printed piece up to 1 meter. Anycubic Photon Slicer V1.3 software allows slicing "oversized" STL model and I got *.photon file (2.8 Gb!).
After launching file print comes test failure : Printer lowers its platform to home (I manually simulate home to sensor) but printer keep lowering instead of printing. (Video shows test)
Printing progress goes from 1% to complete without any printing process. Do you think printer firmware (Photon 5.5, V4.2.3_LCD) allows "oversized" printing? In case answer is "NO" do you know about open source software I could install on printer allowing custom profiles?
Thank you all for reading and help! ? 翻譯年糕

Very first print on a Photon s running 5.0.2 firmware. I had to take the pws (the RERF on thingiverse for the photon s) into PWS and re-export to .photons to get the darn thing to print (locked up and was unresponsive if I had the pws on the drive). Much to my dismay, this is what came out. What did I do wrong? Adhered to the bed beautifully. Using Elegoo gray.

翻譯年糕

Need some help here folks. These are tires I am trying to print for casting in rubber resin. I am trying to narrow down why the printer is filling in the center of the tires. They look fine in autocad 123d, mesh mixer, and in chitubox, but when I printed them, the center where the wheels go is printing solid. I am also having this issue with a set of wheels, but the wheels will have one or 2 thin layer print across the entire center opening. I am able to get out the thin layers with an exacto on those however.

Is this issue from mesh mixer, chitubox, or my printers firmware? And these are first prints so I will need to play with exposure settings and the parts are fully cured. Thank you in advance for the help folks

翻譯年糕

Quick question from you awesome lot: I’ve been having trouble with my photon. I’ve updated the firmware 4.2.19. I’ve reinstalled chitubox with the latest version again. Checked the lcd screen and the UV all fine.

My question: what is causing this?
My question: what settings do you use for minis in chitubox?

Cheers!!

翻譯年糕

hi all

i got my photon yesterday ... :) ... its new to me in fact the previous owner never printed with it so got it at a fair price .... i know its the older type as the screen is the white one with the 3 blue squares .. any way i updated the firmware to 4.2.18 as theres a warning not to go to .19 ...

i printed the test cube thing ant it printed fine ive tried acouple of files ive have sliced with chitubox (latest version) and both times its got around 3 hours in and the bed has lifted out of the vat and rasied by 10/20 mm and stays there the display is showing like its stuck on a layer the dark rectangle shows the layer to be exposing but nothing is happening ....

Help please as the pitstop girl said

翻譯年糕

I've had some frame shearing off and on and wondering if anyone know of things that can cause it. I've heard corrupt usb, which I've already replaced. Firmware is up to date v5.0.2. My last print turned out great, but the frame shearing debris is getting on my fep and I hate having to excessively clean it. Could an aging lcd be the cause? Is there anything I can check?

翻譯年糕

I got a (classic) photon over the holiday sales. It is one of the newer fauxtons...

It was working just fine, printing minis, no issues and now it isn't reading any of the sliced files. It shows the names on the lcd screen but no image of the print and trying to print says file error.

I have tried several other USB sticks, I have tried old files that I just had work. No luck.

I updated the firmware with no problems so I know the USB does work. But this didn't fix the problem. Any ideas form the hive mind?

翻譯年糕