FEP / Vat Life Tracker

Estimate remaining FEP film life from accumulated print hours, average layer exposure, bottom-layer abuse and vat film type. Bottom exposures and high LED power age the film faster — both are factored in.

DomainResin PrintingVersionv1.0.0Added2026-05-19

Inputs

Vat Film Type

Standard FEP ~40 h, nFEP / FEP+ ~70 h, Anycubic / Phrozen ACF film ~120 h.

Accumulated Print Hoursh

Avg Layer Exposures

Most prints sit between 1.5 and 4 s on modern mono LCDs.

Avg Bottom Exposures

Bottom Layers / Print

Prints Completed

Printer LED PowermW/cm²

Result

version1.0.0

POST /v1/resin-printing/fep-vat-life-trackerView API docs →

curl -X POST https://toolsamurai.com/api/v1/resin-printing/fep-vat-life-tracker \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_•••••••••••••••" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
     "vat_type": "standard_fep",
     "total_print_hours": 20,
     "avg_layer_exposure_s": 2.5,
     "avg_bottom_exposure_s": 25,
     "avg_bottom_layers_per_print": 6,
     "prints_completed": 25,
     "printer_led_power_mw_cm2": 4.5
  }'

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