Hello everyone! I'm looking at laser diodes for engraving wood/cutting vinyl sheets. i'm aimed at 445/450 nm laser diodes because it is what i can source for relatively cheap, and we've determined in this thread that it's good enough for what i want to do. So the question now is how to chose such lasers, are there specific things that i should be looking for? most of the ones i see comes with aby sky99 - Laser Cutter Working Group
Hello! Many thanks for all the information, it's been a really good source for better understanding things!by sky99 - Laser Cutter Working Group
Hello! Thanks for your answers, so 445nM rather than 405 for the availability of higher powered lasers. Thanks for the explainations on the focusing also. I think that i'll first do a raw focusing with the lens, then a fine adjustment with the Z-axis of my CNC Also, this is just purely for knowledge, since i don't find cheap laser diodes in other wavelengths than 445 and 405 with acceptable poby sky99 - Laser Cutter Working Group
Hello everyone! I have an Openbuilds C-beam machine, controlled by an original smoothieboard 5X. I would like to add a cheap engraving laser diode onto it, to engrave logos on wood/acrylic (also i'd like to try things on 3D printed objects : see what post processing is possible with a laser. The prints coming out of my prusa I3 MK2 are great, but i'd like to try new things, texturing, logos, etcby sky99 - Laser Cutter Working Group