Review on 🚀 Revolutionary Creality Halot One Integral Monochrome 3D Printer – Unmatched Precision and Quality! by Tyler Kota

I bought Halot as my first polymer 3D printer to print miniatures. Having gained a lot of experience with FDM printing, I was happy to get prints with much more detail. After opening the box, I attached the bed to the base and leveled the bed according to the instructions. Bed leveling was very easy, much easier than FDM printers and only took a minute and was done on the first try. I decided to upgrade with a flexible build plate. creality LD-002H flexible building sheets are perfect for Halot. I connected WiFi to my network, which took a few tries as it timed out and didn't show a connection (note I did this near my router so WiFi signal strength was never an issue). Finally, with Wi-Fi connected, I attempted to update the firmware on the printer itself, again requiring multiple attempts. It failed until my 6th try, where it finally ended. Please note that the firmware update is an "Upgrade" menu item. Then I attached the tub and filled the tub with Elegoo resin-like ABS and was ready to start printing. After a few unsuccessful prints I finally got exposure settings that worked and managed to get some good prints. The prints themselves showed a lot of detail and I was impressed with the quality of the print. However, I am not happy with how the exposure settings are set on Halot. They cannot be installed on the slicer, they must be installed on the printer. You can't set up profiles for different resins, which is annoying when you have to write down the settings you use for different resins and have to enter them manually each time you change resins. The Creality Halot Box Slicer is awful and almost unusable. I downloaded the latest version on August 23rd, tried it on 2 different computers and saw the same constant crashes on all complex models. In the moments when it works the features are primitive, although being new to 3D printing I quickly outgrew the features available on the Halot slicer. The only standout feature of the Halot slicer is the ability to send sliced files to the printer over Wi-Fi only, but I've only been able to do this successfully in 1/10th of a try. I would send them and they would not appear on the printer. Since Wi-Fi file transfers are terrible, basically stick with the file transfer USB drive that comes with Creality in the Halot One box. Unfortunately, Wi-Fi file transfer was one of the main reasons I went with the Halot option. Luckily, Halot supports the Lychee Slicer, which works great but requires a subscription to access its more useful features. It would be great if Creality included a lychee license instead of trying to make your own bad slicer. There is also no way to send files wirelessly via Lychee. By the way, the most popular resin printer slicer, Chitubox, is not supported by Halot at all. An activated carbon air filtration system is not very effective in reducing tar odor in my opinion. A respirator is really necessary to wear, which negates the usefulness of the built-in air filtration. Overall the hardware looks decent but is clearly lacking in software/firmware. Many other competitors offer monoscreen LCD polymer printers at similar prices with support for the most popular slicers and licenses often included. I can't say I would choose Halot over them.