304 (AISI) is only a way of telling that the material conforms to that (looseish) standard.
The ways to metallurgically acchieve that conformity varies a lot.
While the variance within the standard does not play any significant role when corrosion resistant steels regardless of the grade are used -and chosen for to be used- in their primary applications, things get very different when qualities like precise heat treatment colours are the main consideration.
Especially if the heat treatment is performed with very finicky, low power energy sources such as a low power hobby grade diode laser.
Those parameters are very difficult to check without an access to a laser lab, and even if You can/could, thereās most likely 0 chance that those can be controlled in any way.
Those are inbuilt to the laser head harware circuitry.
And those are just two of the many variables.
As can be seen from these two radically different results:
Iād say the climate control is the most difficult one to pull off, even if You use a hefty chunk of steel to stabilize the temperature.
The air assist temperature most likely has to be controlled at least within a ~2 degree as well, so it probably wouldnāt hurt to run it through that same steel block to equalize the temperatures.
I wonāt go as far as to say that what Youāre trying to acchieve is impossible, but it will be very damn hard.
But, whereās the fun if it wasnāt hard .
In cases like this, there is a point of diminishing returns that can sneak in pretty quickly though, so at some point itās often far more productive to abandon that test and concentrate on the next one.
Have now tested the limits. Speed before steppers in X axis start skipping is 20,000mm/m and acceleration stars shaking the walls at 40,000mm/sĀ² realised I might have written mm/s in earlier repliesā¦ Rockie mistake!
Their are a lot of good factors to consider brought up by everyone in this thread, so read it all. And start testing as soon as possible! It will take time, in my experience. But there are probably better threads for starting this process. this one I started for troubleshooting a specific problem. Good luck!
All true! got a new phone didnāt want to risk burning the lense. Know itās possible with welding so not risking itā¦ Yea need to pay attention to the units but why is acceleration in seconds and speed in minutes
The angle wasnāt ment to show the whole work only show that itās up to speed when the laser turns on.
Rectangle is 40x3 mm.
No matter what metric you use, the speed with the right metric, will be the same.
The application for distance uses mm/s for speed.
If Iām moving at 60 miles/hour ā¦ itās the same speed as 1 mile/minute ā¦
Most physics use metric values in meters and seconds as a baseā¦
Most instances, youād rather not enter a 6 figure value, if your range is only a few thousand. Itās basically for user convenience.
I use mm//s for all of my machinesā¦ including a ssl (diode). Mainly because I can look at it and know if itās moving at approximately the same speed.
I think you already discussed this afterward. Are these screenshots correct? Because here you used mm/s and 3000 mm/s is impossible for a diode laser with your mechanics. But you might just have done those screenshots later on and thatās not the value you used. The overscan would be 1.5m in this case
No that was not correct. But your totally correct .I downloaded lightburn on a second computer just to show my settings in a reply. Turns out it was defaulted to a different unit. Itās supposed to be mm/m.
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