My New Laser arrived
I ordered a LC6090 80w laser from Jack at WKLasers and it arrived last week. The shipping was prompt and it arrived in Canada just as Jack said it would. The Freight forwarder used in Canada was lacking to say the least but a few words from Jack at WKLasers and things seemed to move along nicely.
I picked the laser up in Halifax and took it home and uncrated it. The crate was top notch and the packing was better than I could ever have expected. The general build of the machine is also better than i could have hoped. The body of the machine is very well built, its a heavy guage steel and is several times thicker and heavier than I expected. Everything looks well made . My only gripe with the build is that many of the bolt holes are drilled and tapped and odd angles, so its obviously done by hand. Many have holes in one side of the machine but not the other so no bolt was placed at those location. But there is probably more screws than are needed anyway. I saw about a dozen of these instances where hardware was installed. And a few lock washers would have been nice as alot of the hardware just wasn't tight.
The instructions are pretty much nonsense. The translation is poor and its very difficult to understand the idea trying to be conveyed in many of the sentences. Just a jumble of English words tossed into a sentence. But the video plus the instructions make it doable for someone who is on the ball.
The PCI driver card that came with the machine (MPC03) is a nightmare. Its quaility appears low and I tried four computers before I found oe it would even boot in. In the first two cases with the card installe dthe compuetrs would not even POST, just a dead computer. Worked fine with the MPC03 though. The computer I am now using boots most of the time with the card in it but gives various errors at times, and after 5 or 6 boots becomes unusable. Removing the card and rebooting a few times fixes all the errors and I reinsert that card and start over :-) There has to be a better system that the MPC03 card.
The software is hard to use and the install is not well documented. But after I installed anything that looked like an .exe the system booted OK. Much of the install is in Chinese though so some guesing at which button to click was encoutered several times.
I ordered alot of extra parts and (mirrors, lens, drivers and an extra tube) which is a good thing as I suspect the first tube I installed is bad. But I am not sure enough to risk changing it out until I have heard from Jack as I don't want to do that only to find I missed something simple.
Anyway overall I am impressed and I think it was a great deal. Now if Jack helps me like I think he will it will be a super deal.
I'll keep you all posted!
Mike Purcell
www.classicplayfields.com