Greetings Laser Family,
Looking to see if anybody is willing to share their working settings for the powder coating tumblers and their adjustments for different colors and manufacturers.
Thank you in advance
Sas
That will be difficult since we are clueless about what power you have…
Might help a bit to advise us on how powerful your monster is?
@jkwilborn thank you for chiming in. The title of my post states that it’s a Thunder Laser Bolt. The post enquiry is directed toward other Bolt owners on this forum.
The Thunder Laser Bolt is a 30 watt RF laser that was recently released and it is rumored to be as powerful as a 60W water cooled tube laser.
Cheers 
Sas
It’s always nice to advise us, via a link or something to let us know this is a desktop rf excited machine. At least the rf part. I read thunder and think of a dc excited machine.
However it looks very nice indeed…
Simple physics state 30W is 30W, no matter how you dish it out. Don’t be bamboozled by changing the spot size and claiming more power. It’s just a numbers game. I’ve seen enough of these types of claims… 
Assume yours has a beam expander? A line in the advertisement -
A Beam expander is helpful for a finer laser output quality.
This is probably where the power comparison comes from.
As far as I can tell an RF/LED work in a similar way, whereas the glass tube dc excited machines work a bit differently.
Back to the original question…
It’s been so long since I’ve done any mugs with coatings, I don’t think I can help you much. I’ve been pretty much using one of the spray/lase coatings on ss mug/cups.
My first step would be to determine the dot size… This directly relates to what kind of interval you can use or need for a particular job… I have no idea what a good dot size is for an rf machine. Do you?
Then use material test on the mug…
There’s a couple of users here with them … Most are way too powerful for my needs. The 30W machines I’ve seen are close to $3k, just for the module.
So in the end, I guess I’ll have to sit here green that I don’t (can’t afford) have an rf machine. I pretty much shot the funds on a fiber… 
I guess, I’ll have to be green and settle for hearing about it…
I’m waiting for a good report with photos 
You must be assuming this is my first rodeo. I took a brief sabbatical . I’ve been around the block a few times before you arrived on the scene in this forum.