Honey, I Shrunk the Printer!!! - Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra Review

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Please 🙏🏻 we definitely need a video of how to use the calibration feature on the Saturn 4 ultra. It’s very confusing. In all the groups of Facebook this has been a major issue as well as settings. Lots of people are having a hard time levelling the plate and getting things to stick or to release easily from the plate. We definitely need a good tutorial from a real expert like yourself. On a side note thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and a keeping it real. Sincerely thank you.

Hey I was just thinking of something that I don't remember you talking about that can save people a decent amount of $$ on cleaning materials. You may be able to add this to a video. Most people should know you don't want to throw out uncured resin on stuff like gloves and paper towels. I've seen people talk about throwing that stuff in the cure station, but that just makes a mess. What I do Is use a small wash basin in front of the machine when I pull the plate off. The plate goes in the basin. I pop the parts off, and put the plate back on the machine. Next I remove the prints from the supports and wash them. The bin then gets put either in a window or outside for a few hours to cure everything. You can pop out all the cured resin from the wash bin and throw it away. Don't forgot to throw your paper towel etc. here as well. Move things around every now and then if there's a lot of stuff.

Hey dude just leaving a comment to support you anyway I can. Appreciate all the effort u put into these.

I'm glad you've continued using the Micron measurement you outlined in that one video, make it a lot easier to compare the printer's detail capabilities

As always, great review! Thank you!

Picked up one of these for smaller jobs and one for a friend who owns a games and comics store and who hosts our weekly game. He does a lot of 40k, but GW is making life difficult on retailers and he's trying to stay on top of the trends. Now that ABS-like is a thing, he's getting more willing to explore options. I figure with a Mars 5 Ultra, he can get his feet wet. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a half dozen Saturn 4 Ultras cranking out models in a year. I used your link, Ross. Mazel Tov!

Thanks, Ross. I got the pre-order email this morning and was curious about the resolution claims. You've answered them quite handily. I think I'll stick with my Mono X 6Ks for the size and keep saving for that Micron SLS 😁

Will be purchasing my first resin printer for miniatures at the end of the summer so I’m anxious to see what’s available at that time. My priorities are accuracy, ease of use, ability to easily hook up ventilation (gonna be venting it to the outside with fans). I’m particularly interested in the projector (DLP) printers, but none of the consumer brands seem to be making any new ones.

Hey Ross, a video on layer compression would be great, I had no idea that was a thing and now I understand why my small 8mm models had weird lines.

Another great review, and heard today the ETA for the Heaters is now Aug 2024. More time to save, boost the ole budget for a Q3 purchase :)

a follow up vid on that compression thing would be great! i wasnt aware of this and would love more info

Haha 😂 thanks for the shout out and yes people, use Ross’s links

Cheers Ross. Your advice to purchase a larger model over a few quality of life features certainly resonates and is appreciated. Now I'm off to check out this, 'Bi-pedal in progress primate' friend of yours ;)

I was looking at the promo page for this and was thinking many of the same things you brought up about the size. I'll stick to the Mars 4 Ultra and see what happens instead. Thanks Ross, good video. Total protonic reversal. Right, and that's bad. Okay, good advice. Thanks, Ray.

Re the Cones of Calibration - I had the EXACT same issue with my Saturn 4 Ultra - If you look at the base on the one in the video and compare it to the actual STL, the floor is much closer to the skull/mug than it should be. I think this is down to bottom layer exposure time - I dropped mine down to 25 seconds and it printed perfectly after that. Completely amateur take here, but it looks like the plate is rising when longer exposure times are happening, making the base layers a lot thicker than it should be... Might be miles off, but glad to see the 'compression' issue is being mentioned (I print some stuff in my Etsy store directly on the plate, and the first ones I tried on the S4U weren't sellable due to this issue)

As always, great review 👌

Hi Ross!!! You got your video quickly this time! ❤

Love that this video is bang on 15 minutes. It's the lil things. Like the mars 5 😅

Except for the tilt all those features add to the cost of the machine and will cause extra problems. Resin printers should be as mechanically simple as possible so that they are super easy to clean which is super important for safety. They shouldn't have any nooks and crannies for resin to hide in. They shouldn't have any additional parts like cameras or sensors that would require extra trouble shooting or that could get resin on them. I'll stick with my Mars 2 Pro. It's easy to maintain.