Consider me a newbie at this stuff. Got a refurbished Ray5 10W a couple of weeks ago and been playing around with it. As you can see from the picture using the same speed & power & wood the burn gets progressively lighter.
Using air assist?
I would check and clean lens.
By air assist does that mean it’s an optional accessory? If it is then I don’t have it. But I will clean the lens and see what happens.
Air assist is optional in a lot of lasers. It helps when cutting but also helps keep lens clean generally.
Air assist helps keep your lens clean and move the debris away from the engraving.
I think your laser module is failing. There is too much difference between left and right results.
All you can do is check the pwm going to the module, but I doubt that’s going to be and issue. You can do this with a regular voltmeter. Just read the voltage from pwm to ground. It should represent that percentage of 5V. A 20% pwm generates about 1V, 50% generates about 2.5V…
Don’t know what you mean by pwm or how I would check it. I do know that the power going to the control panel is 12.7 volts. I should have mentioned this earlier but I had a Universal Engraver and the module stated 15w but I don’t think that 15 watt was an output because all it do is engrave wood. It eventually did the same thing this one is doing now. Is it possible that it’s the laptop that is the problem?
Do you have a voltmeter?
If so, then there are usually three wires going to the laser module. One is 12V (or supply voltage), ground and pwm. PWM controls when the laser turns on and off.
Measure it at the laser module or at the control board.
I would check for dirty lens first. My experience is laser malfunctions are abrupt and not progressive. Just my 2 cents.
I have the 12 v. I contacted Longer and they gave me a few things to check. And they said if all of that checks out I probably have a bad module and if it’s under warranty they’ll replace it. But now there’s another chapter to this story. This morning I ran the exact same file at 1500 speed and the motor didn’t go any faster than the original 180 speed. It now seems there’s a bigger problem than just the module.
Longer is sending me a new control board, hope that fixes things.
