Re: Pink Plasma but Nothing Exiting Tube
If it isn't a RECI tube then I would assume the tube is pretty much dead. I had a tube I put in storage while I built my machine and 5 months later it was flat out cutting paper and that was a 30 watt tube.
You might get a plasma but it also might not amount to much more than a few watts.
Apparently the glue bonding the mirrors on the tube out-gasses into the laser and contaminates it as well as it leaking gas into the tube.
Rich.
I am not completely useless.......I can always serve as a BAD example.