Setting up the Atomstack X7 Pro Using A5 presets (Laser cuts but doesn't engrave, possible power issue)

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@vladTheRad

In the custom menu I put the A5 by atomstack and that has worked as far as I can tell

How did you do this? LightBurn does not come with any presets.

@vladTheRad

I have .25 inch white baltic birch, and it takes 11 passes at 100% power to cut, with the laser slowed down to 100 mm a min

This is all relative. 1/4 in birch plywood (I assume this is plywood but please correct me if not) is not something that would be considered thin or easy to cut. It would take a fairly powerful laser and well tuned setup to cut well.

Take a look through this post that describes some of the challenges:

Best parameter for cut 3mm birch plywood

Additionally I’d advise that you’ve chosen a fairly challenging material and operation (cutting) as a beginner with a relatively low power diode laser. You’ll need to have a number of factors fairly dialed in to get a quality cut including: material holding - you’ll need to ensure that you can hold the material down flat and secure across the entire plane of your planned cut. Any material vibration or movement across a fairly long burn time will result in misalignment or incomplete burn. Flat…

@vladTheRad

am theorizing that lightburn is using the power of the A5 as its top power,

There’s really nothing like this. The level of configuration on a per laser device type is really limited to a few settings. We can check this by:

1. Go to Edit->Machine Settings and look for parameter $30. This should likely read either 1000 or 255.
2. Whatever value is in $30 make S Value Max in Device Settings match this.

Assuming those value are the same the full “potential” of your laser module is accessible to your cut settings.

So assuming your cut settings and power scale are set appropriately for your material you will be using whatever power is available to you.