Originally Posted by
PatternPaving
ILaser fires inside tube, but does not seem to come out
-I think I've found the causes to be that your power may be set to low to allow the laser to escape the tube. Condensation could be forming on the water lines, which could in turn lead to a short of the tube (this is actually what we are experiencing right now, a bolt of electricity shoots down the inside of the tube during the initial firing of the laser)
- To solve one problem you can increase the power you are cutting with. I don't know how to solve the short itself, other than keeping your water lines dry.
Laser does not cut a perfect circle
-The cause here seems to be the motors, which can easily be solved by cutting a few test circles while chaning the "Gap on xy axis" under "Options/work mode/Cut" in Lasercut 5.1
When firing the laser, there is no glow at all in the tube
-The only time I've run into this problem was with the lid open, which has a safety switch on it. If you close the lid, the laser should fire normally.
After operating the laser fine for hours there will be a sudden drastic drop in power
-We thought this had something to do with our power supply. We run a 120Watt laser. We had the power supply replaced with something we were told was 'beefer.' However 'this' problem persists (it did solve a few others). Its very sparatic and doesn't happen often. The only solution I've found so far is to shut off the machine and left it rest for a minute or two.
I've got a few more problems to list here, but I'm still writing everything down. Hope that kicks off the idea a bit.
Does anyone have anymore problems and your solutions to add?