I made the switch to ruida from leetro and am having a terrible time figuring out speed/power to cut 1/4" ply.
Have a rabbit 80w that worked fine cutting through 1/4" at 10-12mms and 65%, now with lightburn/ruida I’m not able to with 6-12 at up to 80%. I don’t want to fry the ole tube, not sure if somehow I have wiring messed up, it still fires and fires correctly, just not able to cut through now, or if there’s just a setting that I have off. If anyone has experienced this exact style of issue let me know please, I’ve searched on here for a bit and haven’t seen the answer that gets results. Cheers!
Do you have a multimeter attached? I would use one to check the milliamps from the power supply to the tube. Maybe the new controller is asking for a lower power usage?
The power percentage is a fantasy number, and only meaningful with the set of laser tube, laser PSU, and controller. Change any one of them and that number goes out the window. I have changed two out of three, and my power percentage changed 3mA with the controller change, and almost 4mA with the PSU change.
A mA meter will get you close, an actual power test will tell you where you hit your 80W at. For me, I hit 80W at 23.5mA. My tube working max is labeled at 24 mA, but I only gain about half a watt for that .5mA push to max working current. Guess what I use for a max working current now?
It has it built in, on the machine it states when I’m running at 80% I’m at 28 mA. The tube is actually a reci100w, w2, on their manual it states 24 is my target and 28 is the max. YIKES. So I’m not sure what to say. I don’t know if for some reason I wired something incorrectly, but like I said, it (before changing to ruida and lightburn) would cut through the plywood with ease. I bought this from the first owner not new is part of my problem, changing the wiring myself is probably the next problem and finally not always being the sharpest knife in the drawer rounds it out.
sorry, I didn’t hit reply but typed in what I’ve got cooking after reading your response see below if you wouldn’t mind, thanks for the help!
Finally figured it out, cutting all the way through now at 24 mA. Wiring configuration wasn’t correct, for this specific laser, thanks for your help!
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