Hey,
I have had a simple 5W diode laser for about 2 weeks. Unfortunately, I can’t manage to laser out fine details… Whenever it’s a little smaller and it’s lasered, it ends up being just a black spot and you can’t see anything. I have also increased the speed and decreased the laser power, but I just can’t get it to work, because I also want to laser through the board, so I need power. Do you have any ideas?
Thank you very much!
engraving layer: focus the beam, do some tests starting at low power and slow speed until you get the result you want and then increase the speed by 10mm/s or so and step up the power til you match what you got at low/slow.
cutting layer: focus the beam to the middle of the wood, do some tests starting at high power and slow speed until you get the result you want.
In both cases you must have something blowing the smoke away from your laser lens or else that smoke will go straight up onto the lens and it’ll either damage it or need cleanding constantly.
1 Like
Also a diode laser really benefits form an air assist for cutting.
1 Like
In the sample burn picture above, did you notice the vertical lines are thicker than your one longer horizontal line? Lower end diode modules won’t have multiple lenses to correct for the physical characteristics of a single diode element so the “dot” is really more of a small rectangle. This effect will give you better cutting on horizontal lines and less cutting effect on vertical lines.
1 Like