Voxelab Proxima: geni.us/VoxelabProxima EPAX NFEP Small: geni.us/EPAX-NFEP-Small EPAX NFEP Large: geni.us/EPAX-NFEP-Large Standard FEP: geni.us/AnycubicPhotonFEP (You want 0.15mm) My Favorite Resin Rakings: www.elitegeek.net/water-washable-resin-review/ If you need to print a spacer for replacing the FEP: www.thingiverse.com/thing:2904870 The Voxelab Proxima 3D Resin Printer may be the best priced Mono Resin Printer you can get right now. And if you are going to get a Resin 3D Printer you really want a Mono version. It prints great, has a VERY loyal following, but it is very loud. Like all of these printers there are pros and cons to it. In this video I go through all of those I could fine in my last two weeks of continuous use. Just want to support the channel at no cost to you? You can with these links: Anycubic Store: geni.us/AnycubicStore Phrozen Store: geni.us/PhrozenStore Sovol Store: geni.us/Sovol3DStore Epax3D Store: geni.us/Epax3DStore Banggood: bit.ly/DR101-Banggood Amazon: bit.ly/DR101-Amazon If this was helpful consider buying me a coffee so I can make more videos: www.buymeacoffee.com/TrueEliteGeek Or I will be going behind the scenes on Patreon Soon: www.patreon.com/EliteGeek ************************************************** Subscribe and be a EliteGeek! : kzread.info Enjoy & remember to like and subscribe! -- Find Elite Geek Online! -- Facebook: facebook.com/EliteGeekMinis Instagram: instagram.com/EliteGeekMinis Elite Geek is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and other affiliate programs, advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com and other sites at no addition cost to you. Thank you for supporting Elite Geek by using these links. Testing all this hardware is quite expensive.

@CosmicEngimas

3 жыл бұрын

Can you give more info on below comment/question please? Hitting issues with configuration

3 year latter i can confirm that the customer service is great! I got a printer used. And customer service got me set up with everything i needed to get the softwhere running (your vids showed me leveling and replacing the vat screen

I'd never heard of this printer, but just picked it up on Prime Day for about $140. Your review was one that definitely helped me make a snap decision!

@pingbot261

Жыл бұрын

Has it broken yet? Is it good?

Thanks for the review, I just bought one and needed this. I've watched your other videos too. Great work!

Mine shows up tomorrow, and this video has me stoked to start printing minis.

Bought this on Amazon sale for $174 after taxes. My first mono printer, my other printer is an old school Anycubic Photon. I'm excited to be able to print all my minis twice as fast. 😎👍

pretty good value really, thanks for the review

Thanks for the review. Just ordered one of these (will be delivered tomorrow) - i was looking at Egoo for some time but saw a few comments on reviews with genuine issues. Depending on how noisy this is, I'm hoping it will not be an issue - outputs look good. This will be my first ever 3d printer. Looking to print and paint small gaming components. Thanks for your review 👍❤

@AugustTheStag

2 жыл бұрын

Update?

Great video. Subscribed. Any update on the dampers?

just got one of these in the mail today and its my first resin printer. ive been using fdm printers going on 2 yrs an i fell in love an ive ended up with 8 different printers, deltas, corexy an pretty much every style of cartesian printer there is or at least that i know about, but i always seen how detailed the smaller prints came out on resin printers an have always wanted one but never did it cause i was worried about the mess it would make but at this point i have a laser engraver an cnc router in the same room an ive put all my printers in enclosures so not as worried about the mess so i finally broke over an got the proxima, i havent really looked into the details of sla printing but i assume its similar enough to fdm that i should be able to pick it up pretty easy. is there a slicer for sla printers like cura is for fdm or should i stick with what comes with the printer. i got mine on the desk right now an a bottle of voxelabs standard photopolymer resin in grey an im assuming this is like the pla of resin or am i completely off on thinking this. like i said ive done zero research into resin printers an just started with this video since this was the best deal i found. seemed to be the biggest build volume and cheaper than most. i guess my biggest question is what the best slicer to use or is it proprietary and can only use the slicer that it came with?

i got my proxima forever ago now, so its going on over 2 yrs old but i dont print alot of resin an its been sitting for the past yr without being used an i only used it for a couple projects an im needing to use it again now an its been so long since ive messed with it i thought id refresh my memory with a few videos. the voxelab brand is just a sister company to flashforge so all the earlier machines was just a reskin of the flashforge resin machines but they are the budget line of printers while not being under the flashforge name, but they are the best quality printers u can buy at the price points. even the aquila out does the ender 3 machines an i think was a big part of why creality came out with the s1 line of printers. but love my voxelab printers even if ive only used one of them a very little.

Just bought 2 of these used on ebay. (fingers crossed for no major problems with them....) Did you install the damper on the stepper motor? How did that help? Any thought on replacing the loud fan with a Noctua?

Just bought one of these, the deer is a sliced file ready to go now. This should keep me entertained until my Jupiter comes in. Also Lychee now works.

@mikesvirtualhikeandtours1721

2 жыл бұрын

Im in the same boat. Jupiter kickstarter and need something in the meantime.

@BCY

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikesvirtualhikeandtours1721 This will probably fit that bill for you. Look on Reddit for the Proxima sub, the Creality LD-002H firmware updates the printer to us the new Chitubox firmware but also will let you do a UVTools exposure calibration. If you want to skip that my exposure time was 2.75s if you want somewhere to start.

@mikesvirtualhikeandtours1721

2 жыл бұрын

@@BCY Thank you!!!!

@BCY

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikesvirtualhikeandtours1721 You are welcome.

For reducing a bit of mechanical noise and a lot of audio noise produced by motor you can use TMC22** driver

Do you have a post clean and cute video? I’m possibly getting a resin printer I just want to make sure I do everything post print safe and efficiently.

it works with lychee now, plus the fan on mine is way way more quiet

Can you post your setting for chitu box for this printer?

Would you say this is better or same as the mono x? I have a photon s but looking for a bigger build plate.

Can you make an update for this printer? I just spied it for $99 & im really thinking about it.

you dont need supports for the voxelab test deer?

do u have ideas on what settings to use on this for figures and tanks ? im looking at maybe water resin to use as well so interested to know what to get it is the 6.0 voxelab proxima i got thanks

I'm super happy with mine after a week. It's just performed flawlessly from the get go. I was sceptical of the textured buildplate (having sanded similar off my Mars) but it holds really well and it actually lets go of the print really easily once you get a pallette knife under the edge. I have it running at 180 lift and retraction, left it at 60 for the bottom layers. Incredible value for £181. It is very noisy as you said, though. I already immediately turned the beeper off as soon as I heard it. :D I was thinking about dampers or a different motor. Did you ever install your dampers and if so did it quiet the beast?

@Sal-Sul

2 жыл бұрын

If you're still looking to quiet your proxima you should get a tmc2209 stepper motor driver to replace the a4988 driver it comes with

Please help I brought a voxelab proxima 6 and just trying to get a perfect print ,I set the exposure time to 60 but what other settings do I use ,I'm using voxel slicer as couldn't understand chitubox please help .

Can you use Castable resin with this printer

Hi , you finally reduce the noise ?? , i like the printer but the sound is very annoying

Not sure if they are clearing out inventories on this but I got one last week on a lightning sale on Amazon for $128.

I love the proxima, printed 2 liters of resin and one failed print and that was on me and my supports. started resin printing whit wanhao d7 and that was hot garbage.

What type of ventilation system do you use?

hi excuseme can you help me i already buy the printer but the settings on chutibox it dint help to print on castable wax resin

Hi would you mind sharing your printer configuration settings in Chitubox? I just got this model and for some reason the resolution that loads from the config file produces an error

@CosmicEngimas

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’m hitting same issue. Any info on this would be great

Hello Mate, Did you ever post that Silced Deer? I am looking for it to run a Test Print on my printer as all the Prints thus Far are just Flat with nothing else printing except for the Flat Base. Please help...

@therealvirus7719

2 жыл бұрын

same did you every figure this out ?

Can you print in Ho scale (1:87) ?

Going through your notes and pinned comment and I'm not seeing the deer file. Have i missed it, or what?

I have the Proxima 6 and sadly the .fdg file is not detecting and it rather annoying.

Thank you for this great review! If we didn't have the NFEP how high could the speeds go up to? 180?

@TrueEliteGeek

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a really hard thing to judge and varies by so many factors. All I can say for sure is my printed had enough failures I couldn’t use it at high speed. Then with nfep it was a total success. But that really is a one off test.

@lieber1230

3 жыл бұрын

i run 160 and no fails whit fep it came whit. my printing space is pretty warm (24-25 C) so that will affect.

@rorm12

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Do you do 160 on both Lifting Speed and Retract Speed? Sorry, I'm new to Resin printing, one other Q, What does layer height improve if I go from .005 to .003? Thanks in advance!

@lieber1230

3 жыл бұрын

@@rorm12 both 160,you wont see much difference from .005 to .003 just longer print time

Mine doesnt have the FDG file. It has a stl. I can't convert it and now it wont print? Can anyone help?

Have you put a screen protector on your proxima yet? I'm planning to, just not sure if I should do two layers and perhaps extend past the tape or just do one over the screen and the tape. I'm curious what you've done or end up doing.

@TrueEliteGeek

3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t yet. I plan to this week. I don’t think there is going to be a need for two on the proxima like I did on my Mono-X.

@zed_Axis

3 жыл бұрын

@@TrueEliteGeek ah, awesome. I would be interested to what you end up doing!

@obtv6827

3 жыл бұрын

Screen protector? As in similar to a cell phone screen protector? Because I have a sheet of that.

Do you have any experience with the Photon Mono? From what I've heard the Voxelab looks and feels a bit better but can be harder to level and doesn't have as large a community as Anycubic. but for about $50 less, I'm thinking Proxima is the one for me

@TrueEliteGeek

2 жыл бұрын

I have had both. I like using the Mono more. I have only ever leveled it once. And it is SILENT. But the Proxima does AA better.

Did you ever do the modification to try and quiet the motors on this printer? Just curious since you mention it at the end.

@TrueEliteGeek

Жыл бұрын

I actually ended up giving this away. But he DID install the modification and said it made a HUGE difference.

@Lazy-Monkey

Жыл бұрын

@@TrueEliteGeek Excellent. I should look into that modification. I've had a Proxima for a long time, but it's been packed away in storage for ages. About to dust it off and see how it cranks up.

i can you share the resin parameter

I bought mine 4 days ago. I am still trying to print my first model. Levelling - check, resin - Elegoo Plant based resin (translucent green), applied wD40 on the FEP, Cleaned the build plate with ethyl alchohol and let it dry. Still nothing. Feeling sad if this was a terrible investment. I am not complaining about Voxelab but about the whole SLA resin printing coz it is still a tricky business. However, it is only your videos that are giving me hope to sustain and give another chance at my 3D printing itch.

@BrunoMoniz

2 жыл бұрын

try sanding the build plate, it helps

@amandataylor1756

2 жыл бұрын

We had the same ,until we found out set the exposure time to 60 s , we just having problems with the other settings

@maxounette-jv7dj

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in the exact same situation and several attempts later I want to smash it with a hammer

@dr.srinivasanramachandran5208

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxounette-jv7dj don't worry. I found the solution. The problem is my build plate has to will inside to be tightened correctly. Don't let the build plate to hang a lot. Message me and I can help you. You can find me as Ashok Ram on Facebook

@maxounette-jv7dj

2 жыл бұрын

@@dr.srinivasanramachandran5208 if I understand correctly I should go lower than where the home want to go? I guess if it hang too much it create lever effect and can unlevel it?

It looked as if the resin tray had additional FET sheets in and under it or am I wrong?

@BrunoMoniz

2 жыл бұрын

it has one extra

Can you run the files straight from your laptop or do you have to use a usb stick?

@TrueEliteGeek

2 жыл бұрын

You have to use the usb

so i picked this printer up about 2 weeks ago and a am NOT happy. . . to start off with, it ONLY works with VoxelPrint slicer, i cant use Chitubox on my PC as it keeps bugging out and the only info i can find is that its because i have 2 screens. . so I'm stuck with ONLY VoxelPrint. . and the newest thing is it will randomly just shut off. . completely or will just stop printing mid print. . . and many many smaller problems i have had with this printer with in the last 2 weeks and I'm so fucking done I'm ready to send it back. . . only thing stoping me is the price and i wont be able to get another one. . .

@TrueEliteGeek

Жыл бұрын

That really stinks. Have you tried the Lychee slicer? But that won’t help if the printer won’t finish a print.

@V7I-theseventhsector

Жыл бұрын

@@TrueEliteGeek yes, it dose not slice into the correct file format for this printer.