Just testing the Cohesion3d Smoothie laser PWM. Works good enough for now. 100mm/sec.

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Just testing the Cohesion3d Smoothie laser PWM. Works good enough for now. 100mm/sec.

Thanks Ray.

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Good job, can you please post the settings used to get this?

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Woohoo. I can see a difference at least every other square. Not sure how much the difference between 5 - 10% or 90-100% should be visible anyways.

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There is a noticeable difference between 5 & 10%. 95-100% looks very similar, but looks like it’s pretty much tuned in perfectly.

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I was trying to be conservative in my evaluation :slight_smile:

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@Jim_Fong , could you post your settings please?

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@Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty These are the smoothieboard settings I used. The rest of the config.txt is stock from Ray that was on the memory card sent with the board. I adjusted the pot at 10ma.

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@Jim_Fong certainly one of the best response prints I have seen.
Can you point to or post the source image, pls?

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@cprezzi this seems to work as I would have expected, in that power is moderate and capable of going to 0 with reasonable steps?

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@donkjr something I found by doing a google search.

https://jrhzjq.by3302.livefilestore.com/y4mwWYJadyOS-Frff5-hRCgPIVtV13XboACcKloeDgpOW6p9uwEtXOtQTfxCTPuJ6PvuisiSCwx3Jc9-u-Lm-umLLv5Y4D5LqiAkQ90Hx911SlB7LXdnNKwrlvyrvzanBvxL0eTfx5g4NC_DvKs7OuIvsssHGbx1EIwSshvyUF3k6JgpRpnTGYQ5MAdrxb4zpl2gGdunzVxI4_C9K_Y8sQjjg/Calibration%20Gauge%20(360%20DPI).jpg?download&psid=1

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@Jim_Fong Not sure if it’s my end bugging out, but I can’t get that link to load anything.

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@Jim_Fong link goes to blank page…

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@donkjr I found it off the original page

http://www.everythinglasers.com/?page_id=18/laserweb/calibration-guide-for-engraving

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@donkjr @Jim_Fong Haha, that turns out it was one I created a while back. Here’s the original link if anyone wants it.

Calibration Gauge (360 DPI):
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AqT6a-6Vl15NiOArFCGSMZJLoBNtSA

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@Yuusuf_Sallahuddin_Y

It’s not a great image but one of the last ones taken of Scout about 15years ago. I’m happy. 150mm/sec.

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@Jim_Fong nice job, I had just downloaded mine to test it and set it up over the weekend… @Yuusuf_Sallahuddin_Y I got my link from GitHub. Attached.

https://github.com/LaserWeb/deprecated-LaserWeb1/blob/master/i/raster/calibration.jpg

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@Jim_Fong Looks pretty good. Might be worth testing on different types of wood too, as some woods respond better than ply for engraving. I find when I engrave on ply that a lot of the dark areas don’t actually end up dark but just deeper.

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@Yuusuf_Sallahuddin_Y for sure, I have a woodshop so plenty of material to test. This was just the nearest piece of scrap 3mm ply. I originally bought the k40 to do images such as this but it was never as good with the stock controller. Lots more experimenting…wanted to burn my brand/date on pieces of wood which I then can glue on the finished piece.

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@Jim_Fong ​, is that laser web? Or what software did you use.

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@Cesar_Tolentino laserweb4