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!

  • KiloGex@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    22 hours ago

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

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      21 hours ago

      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.

      • bradons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        21 hours 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.

    • rainrain@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      18 hours 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?