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Is it possible to upgrade the Photon’s UV lamp to something more powerful to reduce print time?

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Just a fancy way to cover that ugly hole!!!
The logo was filled with resin and cured with the UV lamp. Printed on an FDM.

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Purely for educational purposes, can someone explain to me some of the physics of how the Photon works? I've read about peel and suction, but the article I read seemed to say that the peel happens by peeling the newly formed layer off of the previous layer. I'm not visualizing this. I always thought the peel was when the newly formed layer peels off of the FEP.

I'm really curious just how this whole thing works (outside of knowing that UV masking turns liquid into solid.

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It appears my Photon will be here tomorrow, time to finish the shopping list.

It appears that the resin (regardless of the Marketing Material says) is HAZMAT. So with any residue or cleaning solutions, just allow it to UV cure and then dispose?

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Hello there, may I ask you for a little help, since this problem is driving me crazy, but before all, sorry for the wall of text:

I bought my Photon some time ago, and after I was done with the levelling in a semi-obsessive fashion I finally tried out printing. Sadly, after something like 2-3 bottom layers the piece falls into the resin vat and I have to remove it since it gets stuck onto the bottom.

I tried to:

1) Re level the plate countless times.
2) Changing out resin (My first tries were done with the standard clear green provided with the printer, then I switched to normal anycubic green)
3) I built a table with adjustable legs, so that I could be perfectly even without any slopes.
4) I tried printing with different room temp.
5) I always shook the resin before pouring it into the vat.
6) I used the settings in this link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets
/d/1crvzMnt_8NJXAsABinoIhcOjE8l3h7s0L82Zlh1vkL8/htmlview?fbclid=IwAR2osuvr6c1K_2Ki5r_q8vxsYCQgfOHHt500PLMYmdF9XotdcKAznEeH3Cw#gid=0

Every single of these step gave me 0 results, not even a bad print (that would've make me quite happy actually).

So, I ask you to help me, because I'm quite saddened by this lack of results, if you want you can do it in 2 ways:

1) By suggesting whatever solution I may have skipped, anything would do, really.
2) By giving me any of your print files with settings included that you have SUCCESSFULLY printed, so that I could give it a try myself and see if it fails again. As before, anything would do.

Thank you in advance, in the comments I will include screenshots of my last try (I did it yesterday, was a failure, same result as always) complete with settings.

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Hey guys,

Just wanted to share my experiences regarding the new Formfutura Platinum LCD Series Solid Black resin. I have very good experiences with Formfutura regarding their FDM filaments and they are located in my hometown, thefore i though i would give them a go. My two cents about the experience..

So they advertise it as the following;

Almost no odour - Compared to other resins on the market our Platinum LCD resin is relatively odour-free!
UV & weather resistant
Fast printing with short curing times
High accuracy
Vivid colours with an extremely high level of colour fastness
Truly opaque and translucent colours available
No discolouration and/or yellowing
Low shrinkage
Compatible with all open source LCD and DLP in the range of 385 - 420nm

Paricullary two of those USP's got my attention; the odourless and the UV Resistant.

For settings they recommend 14s normal layer exposure. For the base i got it up 80-90 seconds for proper adhesion to the buildplate. Base layers; 4.

Regarding the odourless this is defenitly true if I can trust my nose (and i have very limited ventilation in my printerspace - with Anycubic Green you didnt want to stay there longer then 2 mins). Regarding the UV Resistance - this i will have to see over time. In general the mechanical properties are not wow, but not so bad either. Atleast less brittle then Anycubic Green. Regarding the price - it is quite ok around 35€ for 500g of resin, not really cheap but for me it is sourced quickly and i like to support local suppliers. Regarding accuracy this was actually really good. Also after printing the components had a soft touch feeling to it. I added some pictures to give you an idea on what in printed. I will ad more in the future. Would recommend if you are looking for an odourless resin. Also support of Formfutura is great as always. They let me know they will start releasing some more interesting resins in a couple of months.

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minor crack on LCD screen I am seeing a minor crack on the LCD screen but doing UV project test the image is projecting ok, when should I replace?

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Got the 405 nm UV and Super Bright Day Day light LEDS, Know to put together the curing chamber and Light arc see image for reference

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Playing with Anycubic Clear resin. Really nice, but I didn't wait long enough for the ipa to dry on the inside before putting it in a jar with water and curing it with my UV lamp. And YES curing it under water definately prevents the print to turn yellow! (IPA + Water = white fogging..)

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Resin question for the Phontonsters -- Has anyone gotten a bad bottle of ELEGOO resin lately from Amazon? Is there a way to tell if a bottle is bad/ been tampered with?

I purchased a 1000mL bottle of Elegoo Transparent, and despite 5+ minutes of rage-shaking, it doesn't seem to want to set up. The base of the supports adhere, but then the supports print off like something you'd see in FDM threading.

I've had a hollow print under UV for an hour-thirty (3 rounds of 30 minutes), the surface still feels tacky/soft, and still has the sweet/uncured resin smell about it. Pretty sure the only reason it printed at all with this resin is because I mixed it with the tail end of the previous bottle.

It also 'glows' differently under the cure lights. It catches a distinct blue tint through the part, whereas prints out of previous bottles did not do this.

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