We ship all of our lasers with the High Efficiency AR Coated lens and have been doing this for about 3 years now. They push through a lot of power to the work surface. However, especially on the 3.8W lasers, the long axis of the laser diode is quite long and it can be visible […]
CNC Dust Boot The guys over at Suckit Dust Boot have made a very nice dust boot for the X Carve and are working on the Shapeoko3 and Shapeoko2. We got our hands on one of the X Carve versions and decided it would make a great addition to our machine! First thing we thought […]
There are a lot of applications in which the ability to mark metal would be of use. We get a lot of questions about this every day. Unfortunately our lasers right now do not have enough power to directly engrave on metal (you need a really big CO2 laser or a pulsed laser like a […]
Here in the shop we use several software solutions for the purpose of engraving. Laser Etch is a very practical method for etching black and white designs, logos, or PCB’s. This is simply because the G-code that is generated by Laser Etch will either tell your machine to turn your laser on (to the […]
We have had a lot of questions on if our drivers can be put in parallel to allow more current. The short answer is YES! The unique design of the J Tech driver is built around parallel linear regulators all sharing the output load. Because of this, they can be paralleled with multiple boards as […]
We use Universal G Code sender on many of our GRBL machines in the shop. If you have an X Carve or a Shapeoko 3, you will not be able to run your machine in Easel or Carbide Motion without a delay on the laser ON/OFF command. The easiest way to get around this is […]
Information on our Vectric Laser Post Processor We have been asked by a lot of people to make a post processor to the Vectric Software so it can be used with the laser. You ask and you shall receive! We started one for the X Carve, but it should not really have anything that specific in […]
ABS Plastic Laser Cutting Kits These lasers really can do quite a lot of different materials. We have tried cutting ABS before with good results, but we have never documented it in a video. We got a request from a customer to show this with our lasers, so here it is! The 3.8W laser is […]
We get asked a lot whether the 2.8W laser upgrade kit can engrave anodized aluminum. The answer is yes, for most materials. We have tried many in house for the last two years that people have sent us and that we have bought and have not found one it doesn’t work on. That being said, […]
We occasionally get samples from customers to try out under the laser to see if it will work. Today we tried out a European open cell foam product called Filtrocel. It looks like standard foam used in cushions and specialty packing applications. So we put it under the laser and here are the results! Results […]
