r/ElegooMars

Model designer is Trollet Miniatures

Hi, is don't know if its normal, but this spots start to show up on my LCD, I didn't spill any resin and nothing happen the spots just appear. This is normal? How can i get rid of it? I tried do clean using alcohol and a fiber cloth and the spots just remains.

Thanks in advance

So, I've had my new printer since July, an Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra. I calibrated it, adjusted the exposure, and did everything else. I just had a lot of problems with it. Sometimes it wouldn't print the miniatures, other times only halfway. In this case, after many attempts, the miniature came out, but some details were always missing (like the one I'm showing in the photo now). Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks a lot. P.S. I'm also attaching a photo of the resin I use.

For whatever reason, lately, and on specific parts, I'm getting instances where the print seems to fall away from the supports. Pictures 2 & 3 are the same part that failed twice, picture 4 shows supports. Redid the supports on it at 90 deg angle which sort of worked, but almost looked like a case of the mumps on the support side. Sanded it and it will be mostly hidden, so I'm just going to roll with it.

Picture 1 is the same piece 3 times. 1 out of 3 failed.

Running Mars 5 Ultra. Using Sunlu ABS-like, 0.02mm layers, first 10 layers curing at 40 sec each, remainder at 2 seconds. Almost time to replace FEP. 55,000 release or so. Temp in range of 30-35 degrees in vat according to chitubox heater (which now I leave off other than to check temp) machine showing 45-50. Don't fully understand the difference between the two temps.

I'm on my second bottle of resin now and this is the first time I'm seeing consistent fails. So far things have run very smoothly.

Does anyone have any theories?

I have a mars 4 ultra and it makes this sound when I try to start printing. Then it stops and says "file error".

I have tried leveling with a thicker paper, setting the z offset higher than normal, tightening the plastic sheet.

Even though it was dumb I tried leveling it while resin was in, but then the rest print didn't even stick to the plate.

I've gotten several successful prints with this machine before, this started happening out of nowhere.

I'm wondering if it may need to be lubricated? In which case I would also like to ask if the bottle of 3-in-1 in the back would work?

This was my first time replacing the fep as it hit 90,000 and was looking murky

I followed all the advice i could find online but could use some more experienced eyes to make sure its good to go (i dont want a split and resin to go everywhere)

Is tight with a little flex and a few fingerprints :(

edit - mars 5 ultra

Hi all,

Hopefully this question isn’t stupid but I’m absolutely devastated. I have recently gotten the Mars 5 Ultra printer and unboxed last Thursday.

I have had no issues until today. I had a print failure earlier where only the first few layers of supports printed but I didn’t notice as I left the room.

I emptied the resin tray and cleaned the stuck cured resin on the bottom of the tank. Printed again and now it’s only printed this amount (view video).

I’m actually devastated and I pray someone has a solution as I’ve been having an absolute blast using this thing over the past week.

I just got the ELEGOO Mars 5 Ultra, and I was wondering if protecting the LCD screen is something necessary/advisable from the begining.

Also, I've seen some users menting some difficulty removing the prints from the build plate, so I'm considering getting a flexible/magnetic build plate to make removal easier.

What have been your experiencies with screen protectors and flexible plates on this printer? Any tips or recommendations?

If you've ever wondered why you should make certain you securely attach the resin vat the attached picture shows you a POSITIVE result. Had the adhesion to .y build plate been weaker it would have dropped on to the LCD and splashed its full resin tank everywhere.

Let my oversight serve as your lesson learned.

I was hoping to get some help from people on my constant printing fail issues. I am very new to 3-D printing and just got a Mars five. It has been a few weeks now, and I have been printing to my heart’s content with no issues. As of late though the last 4 to 5 prints that I have attempted to do has failed where the supports look like the picture above where the models are not printing completely. Some models may come out complete where other ones may be half done or nothing printed other than the supports or the base. I noticed that my screen is pretty dirty and have started to try to clean the resin off of it and I just replaced the FEP screen. would anyone know the issues that I am dealing with? Is it settings, is it a bad screen? any help would be greatly appreciated!