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T2 Engraving / A little problem
« on: August 28, 2016, 02:02:16 AM »
Hi Every one, first thing I want to say is what a cool site,
there are some great topics, and some very clever people here.
Like so many people, I have purchased one of them nice little laser engravers off eBay,
I got the 40x30cm 2.5 w eleks maker series, with L7 board, reading what it could do on
eBay it covered every thing I wanted to do.
After putting it together and initial testing, I was reasonably happy with it, using Benbox,
but the first problem was it had no low laser light for focus, and I could not do Grey scale
engraving with it, which was one of the main reasons I got it.
Like you do, I have contacted the seller several times, he has responded but he does
not understand what the problem is ?
and was looking into it, that was 2 weeks ago, at this point I was saying to myself,
I should have know better when after scouring the net, I came across you guy's,
and found out I was not the only one to have fallen for the disinformation given
about some of these engravers on eBay.
In the end I am now using Zax's T2 laser software in the hopes that it would get me
back my soft focus light and allow me to do some grey scale engraving, I tried the
trial version and every thing was pointing to it working I had low laser light back and
I thought I had control over the laser power but after purchasing the full copy
of Zax's software, it soon became apparent I did not, (my fault ) , the laser does
not burn anything under 220 and it is a bit weaker than 255 but nothing in-between.
My question to you Guy's is Does this sound like its just the laser hardware that's
incapable of producing the variable power
Or have I missed something on the software side (don't think I have ).
If it is the hardware can anybody recommend a laser that will work with Zax's excellent software,
I do have another laser only a 1 watt that does have a separate
TTL part to it, but I am unsure how to connect it up to the Eleks maker board,
or am I not looking at this problem right.
Any help would be gratefully received, Thanks Guy's
Paul ,from the UK
there are some great topics, and some very clever people here.
Like so many people, I have purchased one of them nice little laser engravers off eBay,
I got the 40x30cm 2.5 w eleks maker series, with L7 board, reading what it could do on
eBay it covered every thing I wanted to do.
After putting it together and initial testing, I was reasonably happy with it, using Benbox,
but the first problem was it had no low laser light for focus, and I could not do Grey scale
engraving with it, which was one of the main reasons I got it.
Like you do, I have contacted the seller several times, he has responded but he does
not understand what the problem is ?
and was looking into it, that was 2 weeks ago, at this point I was saying to myself,
I should have know better when after scouring the net, I came across you guy's,
and found out I was not the only one to have fallen for the disinformation given
about some of these engravers on eBay.
In the end I am now using Zax's T2 laser software in the hopes that it would get me
back my soft focus light and allow me to do some grey scale engraving, I tried the
trial version and every thing was pointing to it working I had low laser light back and
I thought I had control over the laser power but after purchasing the full copy
of Zax's software, it soon became apparent I did not, (my fault ) , the laser does
not burn anything under 220 and it is a bit weaker than 255 but nothing in-between.
My question to you Guy's is Does this sound like its just the laser hardware that's
incapable of producing the variable power
Or have I missed something on the software side (don't think I have ).
If it is the hardware can anybody recommend a laser that will work with Zax's excellent software,
I do have another laser only a 1 watt that does have a separate
TTL part to it, but I am unsure how to connect it up to the Eleks maker board,
or am I not looking at this problem right.
Any help would be gratefully received, Thanks Guy's
Paul ,from the UK