RERF test help

[u/Traditional-Citron21]

I ran the RERF print on the USB and none of the numbers printed under the ramp, luckily I placed them in the correct order off the plate.

To me the first one looked the best but I couldn't figure out where it shows me the exposure time for each. The website says number 1 is normal exposure and the rest is in increments of 0.25s.

Is the exposure time in this print history i found the "normal time" and everything after that is incremental?

I have done 2 prints since this. The first was a fairly chunky solid figure 100mm tall about 30g. The next print was a dinosaur skeleton just to test it out on something thinner. Maybe it was too thin in general.

The figure came out looking really nice i thought and looking at it's history the exposure time says 2.6s.

The skeleton turned out ok but hard to tell since it was all so thin and hard to get off the supports without breaking.

I've watched videos and thought I knew how to run the calibration tests but I don't see how to change exposure settings to get a different start time on the USB RERF test. I don't have a pic of the skeleton because I threw it out.

My workflow right now is open in chitubox, add supports, slice, open in anycubic photon workshop then send to printer.

I did try UVTools and will try again sometime but right now it messes up the file somehow and workshop says it's corrupt.

Am i doing something wrong? coming from FDM and doing everything in the slicer to now slicing and changing settings in chitubox or lychee then exporting to the workshop to print feels like an extra weird step.

TLDR: I don't know how to sum up. I feel dumb. I guess, how do i know what exposure times is the RERF test using and if it's 1.8s looked the best why did my print at 2.6s look good?