r/ElegooSaturn

Prints are having three distinct issues

#1. A glittery texture on some models with a lot of stuck bits

#2. Lines appearing along flat surfaces

#3. Occasional warping

Settings are posted on picture 4.

model available on patreon.com/nympha3D

Exactly what the title says, after a power outage yesterday my Saturn 4 ultra 16K’s LCD screen only goes full power on 70% on the screen, I got this printer from Amazon new, it has always been a little iffy, the lip closed almost all the way, the clamp to hold the build plate down was really hard to clamp, but it had always worked so I never complained. It’s now about 25 days after I got it, and as I said after the power outage this started to happen. I can still return it to Amazon and I have been considering doing that, but ideally if there’s a fix that would be best. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Fixes I have already tried and didn’t work include:
Factory reset,
System update,

I keep trying to get this print but it keeps failing in the exact same way. Here are my settings and here is what my failures look like. Im using Anycubic's water washable 2.0 resin. I would appreciate any guidance. Im using a saturn 4u.

Hi

I’m new to resin printing.

I downloaded a pen-holder model from the internet, I printed it directly the first time and it weighted about 250gm.

Second time i decided to reduce the weight by trying to print the outer shell only ( Can be found in image with red normals appearing ).

After finishing the shell design, i went to slice it with Elegoo Satellite, at the preview tab the model can be seen as designed ( only a shell shown in second image ).

But when i slice it, it will always be filled with resin ( Third image ) and this time weighting about 700 gm.

I did my search and i found that it’s if a normals issue with the modeling itself, so i flipped the normals ( outside ) i got the same result.

Another reason was the manifold, i don’t know a lot about it, but if i manifold the model it gets closed from the top rim which i don’t need.

What am i doing wrong or what i need to understand, is it not possible to print a Shell only for a model ?!

Any idea why this base keeps failing? The supports print just fine, but this is the second time I've printed and only got support and not the model. I'm using the presupported file. But I think that the next time around I will use my own supports. I plan on going medium with the sphere attachment mode. Everything else prints just fine, it's just the base that is failing consistently.

Any other tips?

It's the first time I print so many things together, but since they are bits I would like to make just one plate

Model: Saturn 4 Ultra

The printer is falling to print at all and is notably dimmer than before and when I do a screen exposure test the checkerboard doesn't even appear

So I tried to run a calibration piece after about a month of not using my Saturn 4k Ultra, and somewhere during the process the resin overflowed in the vat for some reason. I’d love some insight on how to clean this without taking the whole thing apart, and preferably without using a lot of toothpicks and many small pieces of paper towels.

I also wouldn’t mind any information on why this happened and how I can stop it from happening again. The resin vat was about half full, well under the max line, so I don’t know why it overflowed like that. Thanks in advance.

I just don’t know what caused this or how I can fix it

Test print of Rei Miyamoto Fanart (Highschool of the Dead) by Azerama Studio. Printed on an Elegoo Saturn 3 using gray Anycubic ABS-Like Pro 2 resin, and finished with Tamiya primer.

I was troubleshooting so much, setting and leveling over and over (I really missed my Saturn 3.) Only one half of the plate fails. Crazy because it worked for a few months.

I have contacted Elegoo, bought it direct back in Feb. Hopefully they send me a new build plate.

How prevalent is this?

My Saturn just started printing a full plate solid brick on every print.

I had one print that failed and half of the print was there and the other half solid, and then the last 3 attempts were solid bricks. Any advice would be much appreciated!!

Hey folks, I just started resin printing, and I’m loving it so far, things are a bit messy but I am lucky enough to have paid attention to the great advice here and have the proper ventilation and space to prep, post process and print with minimal mess.

I am printing on the Elegoo Saturn 3 Ultra, with the Anycubic Water Wash Resin 2.0.

While printing this enclosure, I ran into the defect seen in the picture attached. It seems like delamination to me, but I am unsure why this is occurring, and how to troubleshoot it. Any advice would be appreciated.

Print Settings:

Normal Layer:
- Exposure time: 2.5s
- Lift distance: 3mm, 4mm
- Wait before cure: 1s
- Retract Distance: 5.45mm, 1.5mm
- Wait before lift: 0s
- Lift Speed: 90mm/min, 320mm/min
- Wait after lift: 0s
- Retract Speed: 320mm/min, 90mm/min