Hello All,
I'm looking to see what various laser diodes and lens setups cut and engrave for a CNC X-Y table I'm making. Instead of asking "will X laser do Y?" I thought I could just mail out some samples to folks who have the lasers to begin with.
So I'm looking for anyone in the USA (International postage doubled a few months ago) who could take some 3" x 5" or so samples of various things I want to cut and let me know how they work out. I'm leaning towards the single mode 700mw+ 405nm diodes right now but am open to other ideas.
Anyone with the oh-so very new 3.8mm 405nm diodes that don't blow up if you overdrive them? That would be awesome but those are so new and rare it might be awhile before enough are out there for this.
If you have a variety of burning lasers and want to try them out on various samples, please send me a note and I'll mail out the samples to you. I would ask for pictures and data on what diode/lens/driver setup you are running.
I am looking for a good clean, quick cut. Something that takes seconds to burn away the edges and leaves it a charred mess would not work for a lot of the things I want to try and do.
With tons of $$$ I would get a CO2 laser cutter all assembled and everything but lacking the funds for that decided to try for commercial laser diodes instead. I have the parts to make a CNC X-Y table and with the right laser diode/lens/driver setup this could be very sweet.
I think for under $350 you can get something that does a good chunk of what a $3500 CO2 laser can do. More than 10% at least.
Thanks again!
- Ray
I'm looking to see what various laser diodes and lens setups cut and engrave for a CNC X-Y table I'm making. Instead of asking "will X laser do Y?" I thought I could just mail out some samples to folks who have the lasers to begin with.
So I'm looking for anyone in the USA (International postage doubled a few months ago) who could take some 3" x 5" or so samples of various things I want to cut and let me know how they work out. I'm leaning towards the single mode 700mw+ 405nm diodes right now but am open to other ideas.
Anyone with the oh-so very new 3.8mm 405nm diodes that don't blow up if you overdrive them? That would be awesome but those are so new and rare it might be awhile before enough are out there for this.
If you have a variety of burning lasers and want to try them out on various samples, please send me a note and I'll mail out the samples to you. I would ask for pictures and data on what diode/lens/driver setup you are running.
I am looking for a good clean, quick cut. Something that takes seconds to burn away the edges and leaves it a charred mess would not work for a lot of the things I want to try and do.
With tons of $$$ I would get a CO2 laser cutter all assembled and everything but lacking the funds for that decided to try for commercial laser diodes instead. I have the parts to make a CNC X-Y table and with the right laser diode/lens/driver setup this could be very sweet.
I think for under $350 you can get something that does a good chunk of what a $3500 CO2 laser can do. More than 10% at least.
Thanks again!
- Ray