I have a J-Tech Photonics 4.2-watt laser. My current value setting is 1000.
My question is, what would happen if I increased each setting equally, how would this effect my laser?
Not at all. If you increase this value, you have more fine-grained control over the power. It just defines the steps you have in between 0 and 100% power.
You can set both to 1, then you have 0=laser off, 1=laser 100%. If you set both to 100, you have 100 steps. With the common 1000 value, you have 1000 steps. The only important thing is that the values in the firmware and LB match. Otherwise, the percentage in LB does not reflect the actual percentage of the laser.
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I just created a small graphic to illustrate the matter:
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It may give you increased resolution in your control, or maybe not. Depends on whether or not you have a 64-bit controller. Nobody does yet.
When you select 10% in Lightburn, it sends S100 to the laser. And 1% would be s10. Now the question is will the controller change the output power to 5% if you set both to 2000? No because it will still be 10% of the maximum power. You only have 100 increments (actually more with decimals) to choose from. That number was bumped up when 8-bit controllers were replaced with 32-bit controllers.
I set my Frame power to 0.25% so it is just barely visible.
Can you even tell the difference between 9% and 10% with your current setup?
My question was to see if there was a setting change for my little 4.2 watts can get more power for cutting .125 plywood. I had completed this task once but have not been able to repeat it.
it took over 10 passes.
I think we explained clearly that there is no chance in increasing power. 100% is 100%. There won’t be no magical power addition by changing settings.
If you have worse cutting results now, it’s most likely because the lens is dirty or the diode has degraded. First, remove the lens and clean it.
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Thank you all for the replies. I’ll do just that and give it a whirl.
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