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I'm incredibly new to 3D printing. I have an Anycubic Photon Mono 2 and I'm using the Anycubic standard resin. My first couple of prints went fine; first one was the test print and the second was a set of dice (which technically didn't go fine since I wasn't aware you can't just print right on the plate, so one side was blank).

However, ever since then my next 4 prints have failed. I thought I was maybe going too complex right off the bat - attempting to print a flexible dragon for my kids - so I decided to run the resin exposure test ("RERF"). Only 4 of the 8 printed, and the ones that did only barely printed. I have absolutely no idea what's going on with this and was hoping that someone here could give some insight and advice.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Somewhat. It's in my basement and it usually hovers around 50* in there until the summer (which it is not).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Im presently doing all my printing via craftcloud. It seems too expensive and fiddly to do it myself. But I've got this room where, if I get a printer, I'll put it.

So if I do it like a humidor. Controlled environment and ventilation. Is this the normal thing to do?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm assuming you don't mean 50C. This is your problem. You need to buy or build a heating solution for your printer. There are many commercial products available. You need a temperature 75F or higher for resins before you print. Some print best at 80F+.

Once you get the temperature taken care of 6 seconds will likely be too high of an exposure time for a monochrome LCD printer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great! Thank you so much for the help. I'll start researching!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The cheapest and easiest trend to be the Brewers bands. People wrap them around their resin vats.

https://youtu.be/IHA4aUJdG80

https://youtu.be/bQmmGj6gMdk

I built the one in the second video but there weren't as many out of the box solutions back then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly. I was printing fine, then winter came, and everything started to fail. Got a cheap fermentation Heating Belt wrapped around my vat and everything was working great again Then I wasn't being diligent about cleaning my plate and started getting fails until I realized the issue.