I have been pulling my hair out with nearly all my prints failing. I am having the flaking, or as I like to call it SCABBING all over my prints, on the tray, on the supports, EVERYWHERE. This is my second machine and I have been told that the laser is not bad. I’m sorry but BS! I have been getting this “Rabbit Ear” phenomena for over a month and now I know it has to be interfering with my prints. I just put in a new tray and new resin from the bottle, spent an hour cleaning ALL mirrors and I have not got one SCAB-FREE print in four days. So I’m back wasting time and wasting resin.
This time when I went to remove the galvo motor block, I happened to loosen the clamp on the laser instead. So, now that laser slid out of its slot I ran the laser spot test. What-do-you-know? Coming right off the laser are those dumb “rabbit ears.” So all the mirror cleaning in the world won’t fix that. Shouldn’t I be getting a pin-point image off the laser?
Here is the new laser spot test coming off the mirrors (normal way to do test)
Here is the laser out of its holster and I am sending the beam to a piece of white paper about 3 feet away.
This is coming DIRECTLY from the laser. The laser is NOT bouncing off any mirror. This has to be why my prints are failing.