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Ok, so you convinced me.
I'm getting one.
Today.
God.
Freaking.
Damnit.
Excited!

What else do I need besides the printer, some extra resin and buckets of Isopropanol and a UV setup of some kind?

I'm thinking I'm going to try the Anycubic grey resin to begin with. I've heard it stinks something fierce, but as I live in Sweden, I can't really find anyone who sells the more recommended resins.

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Last week I pulled the pin and ordered a small Ultrasonic Cleaner for my prints (I'm printing some stuff locally as a quality/verification step before it goes to metal printing with Shapeways). SO GOOD!

I was previously using the 3 jar (Dirty IPA, Clean IPA, Water) shaking approach. This was so much better. 0.8mm holes that I had to get at with a pin to sorta clean just got cleaned right out with the Ultrasonic cleaner with warm water around a bag of dirty/clean IPA for 5 minutes before UV curing.

TLDR; Ultrasonic Cleaners clean resin parts like the GIF says

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Picked up a Photon S on an Amazon flash sale. Arrives tomorrow. Beyond gloves, iso and a bright sunny day, what else do I need? I'm building a UV LED cure station. Is there a specific slicer I should be using or will cura work and can I hook it up to my octopi with my CR-20. TIA!

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How do i know if a light is emmitting uv? And if it is enough? ?

I have a grow light for my plants im wondering if itll work to cure prints too ? it can power a solar panel thingy?

P. S. Sorry if this is a common question and im just being dumb

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Anyone else with an FDM printer that is using their heatbed in combination with UV to cure? Seems to work REALLY well for me. I built a quick makeshift UV-curing device (using a UV led strip inside an aluminium round container) that I just put on top of my heatbed (Creality CR10-s) at 60 degrees celcius with a lid on it that seems to cure anything really fast a.t.m. (for me fast is 30 min / 60 min). Prints are completely 'dry' and hardened.

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Quite interesting case while printing those models, UV lcd shows one picture preview screen another one. (tried two times) All app reads photon file as it should be, but printer do different staff. Other models are ok. Sliced with ChiTuBox. Issue is related to slicer?

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I typically UV cure (via UV lights or the sun) my prints: 翻譯年糕

hi all, any recommendations for the best settings to use with Elogoo LCD UV Rapid resin? hi all, any recommendations for the best settings to use with Elogoo LCD UV Rapid resin? 翻譯年糕

Hey guys! So I want to do the responsible thing and store trash contaminated with resin separately. I was thinking of throwing everything in clear bins, then leaving them out in the sun before throwing them into regular trash. Would these bins let enough UV in or would they block them?

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Hey guys!

TL;DR: LCD showed nothing (even UV-Detection not) until i restarted my printer.

So i just got my Photon today and did the testprint from the stick which worked perfectly fine.

After that i wanted to print one of my own files and after 1 hour, when the plate got over the vat, i saw that nothing was printed.

So i immediately stopped the print and there was nothing in the vat either (i thought that it would have peeled off or so). But there was not a single piece of cured resin ANYWHERE.

Then i took out the Vat and the buildplate and restarted the printjob "dry" and voilá the screen isnt showing anything. You could see a liiiiiiiiitle bit of backlight from the UV so that seemed to work nice, but the screen is "black".
I did the UV-Detection in the Menu -> Same result.
So i restarted the whole printer and redid the "dry" printjob. Now it worked perfectly fine...

I haven't tested the real print because it's quite late here in Germany. But what could this be?? Is it possible that the cable came loose or is this a known issue?

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