To laser Doctor,
Welcome to our little corner of the web. I probably speak for all of the laser posters here by welcoming any of your comments whether good or bad because there isn't a lot of information out there that someone can learn about lasers.
It's nice to have someone come aboard with a wealth of extensive knowledge and willing to share it.
I live in the outback miles from nowhere in Australia and this is my first foray into laser technology and I find it so damned intriguing and fascinating and it seemed a logical step up from a CNC gantry router. The web is my only source of information as the Public Library has only old books on Ruby lasers and no one else in town has had anything to do with lasers except the pointer type. I am not rich so my budget is very low and glass tube lasers will be my method of choice until the lotto comes in.
If I ever get my laser up and running then it will complement my routers and also give my little woman another outlet for her Scrap booking shop (which she is getting very impatient for).
One thing I would like to ask you though is how to wire up the Chinese laser power supplies. The one with the 3 AC in terminals and 6 input terminals to control the laser with a Potentiometer or through TTL
1 = TTL High
2 = TTL Low
3 = Protection Port
4 = Gnd
5 = DAC power control
6 = DAC power control
would you have a schematic in English that I could use with LinkMotion to connect the computer to it using TTL control for the modulation?
There is another thread here that has pin outs but I need to have someone explain which port does what so I don't fry an $800 power supply.
I don't seem to get that the TTL signal goes into pin 1 BUT the power control signal goes into pin 5 or 6
LinkMotion sets pin 14 on the parallel port for the laser modulation and can't be changed.
Any body reading this thread is also welcome to jump in especially ones that have one working. I would also like to start a new thread with "Laser Power Supply" that people can search for when wiring one of these things up so it may be found easily instead of being buried 12 pages into a thread that takes weeks to find.
Paul the Admin ????? can you help as you have already been through all this and have yours up and running.
Richard.
I am not completely useless.......I can always serve as a BAD example.