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It might have been a loose lens...

We wound up getting an old empty camper-gas cylinder to pump air into/out-of... to act like a giant capacitor etc... problem solved. Simply re-fitting the lens...

Turns out that the air-assist pump was a pulsing diaphragm type thing - so the pulsed air shooting out the nozzle was translating itself into the cut.

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I have a 1 year old Bodor 6050 machine with a Ruida controller. 4 month old 80w tube. I'm sending designs to it using RDworks


When cutting acrylic (or anything, but it shows up with...

Yea - I used to have terrible problems with honeycomb marks... but they seem not to be happening (touch-wood) at the moment.

The only thing that's changed is that I've gone from a 60w to an 80w...

I asked my local laser-cutting fraternity, and they all replied:

"have you cleaned the acrylic with meths/alcohol? - the only time I've seen this is when I've done that".

I wasn't doing this...

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I have a bit of a conundrum - I make (a lot of) little acrylic boxes using an 80w 6040 C02 bodor machine. It works pretty well, but if I'm cutting a 6040 sized bit of 4mm thick acrylic, I...

Hiya - thanks for your reply.

The limit switches don't appear to do anything at all. The limits are set in software I think... so if I try to move the head right... it moves to where it thinks...

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Any ideas about this?


We reattached all the wire to the drivers (some were a bit loose), but it's still resetting in the wrong place... when it finishes a job it doesn't move to its...

Oh... either this system deleted the link to my video, or I forgot to post it.

https://goo.gl/photos/yGvJRRBwkdxrgftx5

Hi all... back again.


One of my laser-cutters has started exhibiting strange behaviour on the X-axis.

For a while it's been having sporadic issues with slipping... which usually happens with...

Somewhere between those two solutions, and a couple of stops and starts, everything now appears to be working perfectly.


Thanks for your help everyone. Most appreciated.



Nick

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I've got a laser-cutter working with an AWC608... it's currently running with an old XP machine running lasercad - but I'd like to swap that machine out for a windows 10 one.

Does anyone...

If anyone can help with this I'd love to know - I've got exactly the same thing, and have never managed to fix it.

9/10 times I try to load a job (via USB, never got the LAN to work) to the...

Options > System options...

... it shows the dialog box in the image attached. Click on "manufacturers paramaters".

I just reversed the Datum and Key direction.

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That would be fantastic :)

Actually, if you did a series of "how to tune a laser-cutter" videos, you'd probably drum up a fair bit of business off the back of being "go-to-guys" for advice.
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Thanks for your input anyway.

A big part of the reason these forums are so helpful to such a lot of people, is that after-sales support on Chinese laser-cutters is pretty much non-existent... but...

I've never replaced the belts. Never touched them in fact.

It wasn't showing this problem with Leetro - I changed to AWC608 a couple of months ago, but this is the first time I've tried a job that...

Hiya.

Reset which setting?

Unfortunately I cannot contact the seller.

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I have a Chinese 6040... which has been running fine (ish) for a couple of years now... I recently replaced the Leetro software with AWC 608, which is a whole lot better...

... but...

Ah - I might do that then. Thanks.

Really? I could probably find someone who speaks Chinese.

Well that believe it or not, is an absolutely brilliant idea, which I hadn't thought of :)


Unfortunately, it turns out that ethernet works even less well than USB - ie: I get no life out of it...

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Main Board : 7.14.08.22
LCD Board : 5.13.09.15

LaserCAD V6.92

Yea - the name Light Object comes up quite a lot - I got mine from Aliexpress though - worked out about $100 cheaper, although I guess I'm paying for that now.

I guess nobody knows :)


Ok - go meta - does anyone know where I can get support for AWC 608 controllers running with LaserCAD?

I'm having to unplug then replug the USB cable every time I try...

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Okay - new minor problemette I'm encountering.


Have a new AWC608 with LaserCAD software - both working perfectly... apart from one thing:


1) I click 'Download'... the...

Okay - so according to a local rocket-scientist I know

1) yes, it will arc if you have an earthed bit of metal only an inch away

2)

a) yup, insulated it

b) yup, build an enclosure for...

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The new laser tube turned up in 1 piece !


Cool - all seems to work etc - it is (however) about 10 inches longer than the previous one.

My laser-cutter (a 60w 6040) has a...

Ah - that will explain why I had so much trouble finding a replacement :)

I went for another 60 - probably should have gone to 80... maybe next time.

Hiya - it's 60 watts RECI