Hi all,
I’m having an issue cutting 10mm acrylic, which I have cut in the past (2021) with my 100 watt Lighblade CO2 laser, (not sure what release of Lightburn was around in Jan 2021) so used my tried and tested settings of 4mm/sec @ 75% power, with the file created today using Lightburn 1.6.03.
At these setting I would expect to be drawing 28mA and cutting the acrylic in one pass, but its drawing 3.6mA (a lot less than normally associated with 100 watt of power) and barely marks the surface with very little depth.
I know the laser tube works as I can cut the 10mm acrylic using the Ruida pulse and movement buttons at the same speed and power. I also cut some 5mm acrylic at 15mm/sec and 50% power immediately before, perfectly fine.
I tend to transfer the file between laptop and Ruida controller by memory stick, but since the files for the 5mm and 10mm acrylic were transferred at the same time both on and off the stick I’ve ignored this as an issue.
I have rebooted Lightburn, recreated the hexagon and used a different layer without success.
The Ruida RDC6442S seems to be functioning correctly, as does the CW-5200 water chiller, so I presume it has to be the file, which I include for peer review, with the hope that someone can spot the issue.
Ruida controllers have a Start Speed setting, typically 10 mm/s, below which they apply the Min power layer setting. With a Min power of 10%, it wouldn’t cut butter.
Increase the Min power to, say, 50% and see if that changes the outcome.
