r/AnycubicPhoton

I just changed my FEP. I had to tune it, but everything came.out great for 4 prints. Then everything started to fail.

I have an Anycubic Photon Mono 2.

I printed the Anycubic test cube fine.

I printed the RERF and it's not right at all. Few of the little pegs came out. Two of the jobs didn't even have all of it print! Those are on the left. The best ones didn't have the lines at the top all can me out.

It doesn't look good, but what does it mean?

I bought this Anycubic Mono 2 for about $30. Everything works fine, the only problem is that the previous owner spilled resin in the holes where the screws that hold the tub go. Is there any way to fix it, or did I just waste my money?

Hi! When leveling the paper does not move but afterwards when i home zero axis it does move slightly. Should it be like this? The printer model is anycubic photon mono m7 max.

I attached a video of the printer homing the zero axis.

Im currently facing an issue where the print is only on the film and doesnt stick to the build plate.

Alrighty everybody I found this super awesome cabinet on marketplace and I thought it would be a perfect enclosure right?

Well I didn’t take into account that I would need to take the lid off of the mono m5 I recently got.

So I was wondering if there’s any potential modifications to the printer cover that might give me a few centimeters more of wiggle room?
It catches on the little knob for releasing the plate so I can probably just find another bolt for that.

2 second grinding noise

I appreciate your help. I am very frustrated with my machine as I have had successful prints. I've tried troubleshooting so much, and as a last ditch effort I recently ran a test print from the USB and that printed successfully. Now when I try to run my own print it fails - I've placed a new NFEP sheet and tried to run a print. after the print failed, i can see a BEND on the new NFEP sheet- meaning I am unable to solve this situation and the overcompression is still occuring.

I have taken a video of the problem.

in summary: The video shows the build plate lifting normally but producing a 2 second buzzing/harmonic compression sound during the downward return phase, consistent with the printer encountering excessive resistance or overcompression against the nFEP/resin layer during early support formation. - I am hoping a firmware update can resolve this

Running the paper test, it takes approximately +0.6mm to get paper looseness. Now when i try to apply the print. Code 303 propagates.

what are your thoughts?

Can someone give me a hand?

Recently, 3 prints ago my prints started failing for no reason.

Chunks not printing, peeling, sounds of hard peeling from the film rather than the usual slight thudding sound it makes after a big layer.

I initially thought it was a leveling issue, so i releveled. The issue still persists

I checked the fep status, 45 prints without changing. So i replaced the fep thinking it would work, but it doesnt.

Another thing of note is my table is a bit off level, one of the lrgs of my table was off and tilted, therefore tilted the printer by a slight incline barely noticeable

Despite that i have the printer for about a good few months and encountered no issues with it

I even put some extra supportage to level the printer to be even et it still fails. Cleaned up the print plate too and it still peels.

I already changed lift speed too so as to make it a bit slower but it still peeled

I also stabilized the printer to make it more level but still failed

Anybody knows whats going on?

Best practices for resin printing specify heating resin in a “hot water bath”. https://resiners.com/blogs/resiners-guide/how-to-warm-up-resin

Aside from messing around with DIY methods like microwaving cups of water and pouring them in separately (which then cool when you pour them in, and you can’t control the maximum temperature) or heating it on the stove, which, while you can get more control when used with a thermometer submerged in the water bath, bringing resin into the kitchen is just a recipe for disaster (pun intended.) And the folks who say they “just use a HEAT GUN pointed at the resin vat” are morons, simply put.

The BEST way to controllably heat your resin without overheating it, is to use a sous vide heater in a 1 gallon jar. See exhibit-A.

Anybody have any clue on what could cause this resin base to not stick to build plate? Ive tried leveling the base, different files that have worked before and new film. Even tried different settings and none of it helped. It starts printing but the piece gets stuck in the film and not the plate

Never seen this before. At this point, its already printed the long part of the model, it starts printing these long layers.. Its not delaminating in the model, this is outside.

It is a New FEP,(2nd print, like not even 3000 layers to this point of failure) but this long part is parallel to the edge, just a bit inside the printable zone. not on the line, or over. Everything else in the print, other big and small parts came out fine. the raft, all supports were locked down to the plate like normal.

photon mono2, mix of sunlu standard and abs like.

Any ideas? is my bulb going?

I’d like to get a resin printer. I am an absolute noob and I have practically no money (not exactly true but let’s just say I’m trying to be thrifty.)

This is currently in my area and I’m interested in it. But I’m trying to do some research and it looks like AnyCubic no longer supports this machine, and I read in this communities beginners guide/FAQ that there’s a firmware update that will brick this machine - so if I’m technically trying to install it for the first time, doesn’t that mean that it will basically never work for me?

Anyways, TLDR; is this a good deal for a beginner or is it essentially a scam because the printer is destined to not work?

EDIT: thanks friends, I’m definitely going to pass - would take reccs on educating myself/researching printing because I want to understand what I’m getting into!

I was pretty sure that I wanted resin because the detail is better than filament, or so I had heard. However, every resin print has to be painted whereas filament can print colored, and I am not confident in my amount of follow through to paint every print 😂 I am a hobby collector for sure but I’m trying not to spend $1000 on something that will only entertain me for two months or so yknow

Any ideas what might causing this? Tried this print twice and the same thing happened both times but had success with all my other prints up until now? The printer auto levels but maybe it's broken??

Room sits around 18-20c

I print in a small uv tent

Standard grey resin

Later thickness .05

Exposure time 3.5

Off time .5

Bottom layers 5

Bottom exposure time 35s

Bottom off time .5