Hey guys, first time poster here but long time user of the product.
I have a Chinese 3040 laser I bought several years back honestly just for something to tinker with and have since upgraded it pretty significantly. It’s now got a 40w laser and an upgraded controller. Still using the belt drive x/y axis built on 2040 aluminum extrusion. I mostly do wood engravings on 1x wood for plaques/etc.
Until recently I hadn’t really messed with many of the settings and was running the settings it came with for x/y max speed and acceleration, 6000 mm/min and 100 mm/s/s resepectively. I was messing with some other stuff and decided to ramp it up and whoa, what a difference. I’ve increased the acceleration to 1000 and max speed to 20k and no complaints from the machine at those numbers. I usually do overscan 5% and have a small offset (laser lag) but was able to get clean lines at those settings.
But it for me thinking- there must be a “sweet spot” of sorts especially for the acceleration, or is it really just as fast as the machine can handle? Just wondering if anybody with a similar setup can share what they have theirs set to. Once I’ve got it dialed in I plan to go back and fine tune the offset and what not.