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I FIXED THE LASER CUTTER!

HURRAH!


Boy do I feel stupid. So I guess everything had worked perfectly all these years, but perhaps the warmer temperatures and gradual build-up of...

I'm not sure what is happening with your laser, but this problem we're having definitely has absolutely nothing to do with the file. It's the same problem with any file which takes long enough to...

It is fairly typical for steppers to "groan" during some types of motion, particularly when they're moving really slowly. Ours have always groaned somewhat when cutting (for example) a circle at a...

Any ideas CNC-Zone? Best guess still seems like the stepper driver overheating, but I'm not certain.

Depends on what you want to use it for.

Lower-watt lasers tend to be better for fine engraving, while higher-watt lasers have more cutting capacity but at the expense of engraving quality. In...

Diagnostic update on this problem:

In a 20-minute engraving job, the x-axis movement will start making a "groaning" sound about 6-8 minutes into the job; this will increase in volume, and not too...

This has pretty much got to be what you're looking for...

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No problems apart from the one described. Laser will datum normally, and under manual control the laser head will stop as expected when moved to all edges.

I will try to take a video tomorrow,...

Hello CNC-Zone...

Our shop has had a G Weike 1290 laser cutter for about a year and a half, running a 100W RECI tube, a Leetro MPC6515C controller, and a CW4000 water chiller. We generally use...