/resin-curing-chamber

Parametrized DYI resin curing chamber, using UV LED strips.

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Resin Curing Chamber

Parametrized DYI resin curing chamber, using UV LED strips.

Features:

  • simplicity - no moving parts and a short BOM of commodity electronics
  • fully customizable - build it as small, or as large as you wish, with the parts available to you
  • safe to operate - doesn't turn on unless the cover is closed, designed with protecting against light leaks in mind
Front Inside
Front Inside

Build manual

See the build manual document for BOM and instructions.

Motivations

There is a bunch of DYI resin curing chamber projects out there, and with better features. Why build another?

Initially I had intended for this project to have a turn-table based on a tiny hobby DC motor with a reduction gearbox, therefore catching up on the feature set.

However, this was increasing the complexity a lot, causing me a lot of grief as the engine I'd used was very underpowered, and, as I soon noticed, didn't have much impact on the curing quality, probably due to the light source being all around the part, and not in a single place, as in some other projects.

Additionally, the build volume of my printer is tiny, so I didn't really need the size the other projects were offering out of the box. Instead, I wanted something I could scale up while keeping the innards intact if I wanted to.

The goal for a next version is to revisit the turn-table concept, as well as add in some form of a timer and display.