Thanks Jack. That actually might work quite well. I was never much of a programmer, but I could kill it with a batch file back in the DOS days 
The title of the post was tongue in cheek obviously. I don’t think lightburn is deliberately out to set fire to my house. However I think my issue will become a more common posting as these low cost diode laser seem to double in power every year or so.
Like Moore’s Law for lasers. 