Hi Everyone,
I’m new here so please be gentle. I received a new Fox Alien Reizer Mega 20W and the setup was pretty straight forward. I started with lasergrbl and although everything worked okay, I found it cumbersome and my end result was not what I was expecting. I actually followed the tutorial that was included with the unit and used the sample files. The image was very faint which I assumed the laser was only at a low power setting even though it said s-max power was 1000 or 100%. Then I thought it was the speed and material I was using, so I looked at the recommendations in the laser and materials DB and set everything up according to “Hardboard” to engrave. I started it and it did the same thing. Really faded. So I switched to Lightburn thinking okay, lets try this one.
I opened the same file and based on some of the tutorials I’ve watched set the machine up to engrave with speed at 2000 with power 100%. When I hit preview it said it would take 5:47:09. It’s going to take 5 hours, that’s ridiculous. I thought maybe it a bad calculation and I started the machine. So I played with the power settings, 80% same time, 50% same time. Then I changed the speed from 2000 to 1500 and it increased the time. The size of the image is larger as it is going onto a cutting board. By accident I added too many zero’s to speed which brought it up to 20000 and that reduce my time to just over 3 hours 80% or 100%. So now, no matter what I set the speed and power to it’s always reading just over 3 hrs. Still too long, but I thought let’s give it a try on a smaller graphic size. I literally made the graphic 6" x 6". I ran the machine and it took 20 minutes and I may as well painted the graphic on the board. To me, it simply burnt the surface lightly. It never penetrated the wood.
So I apologize, I’m stuck and my fear is that if I keep playing with settings, I’ll never get this right.
I’m completely at loss, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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