Benbox Laser Machines/CO2 Lasers/3D Printers

To be more specific, here are some things that I would like to do to my laser. Are they possible? if so, how? Where would I go to purchase the parts etc.

1. Get some better safety glasses. Recommendations? (the ones that come with the laser won't fit over my regular glasses)
2. Add drag chains. (my laser sits on a table that is almost the same exact size so sometimes the cables going to the stepper motors get hung on the corners)
3. Home switches.
4. Upgrade the stepper motor drivers.
5. Add a resistor to stop the laser from turning on by itself.

I do not think any of this is beyond my abilities. I have built guitar pedals in the past and I am have worked in the IT field for 12 years. Not bragging just saying I am not a dummy. But I am also a visual learner so I would like to find written and visual instructions please.

Thanks,
John

1. Survival laser USA. Go to their site and get the OD6 orange glasses that go over glasses for $50. I bought them and love them
2. I am just using a cable keeper. Round hard plastic. It works well
3. Check out Thingiverse. Search for user Nottingham82 and he has an awesome collection
4. Hardware store
5. Find one pin compatible
6. Try a 4.7k resistor between the S and GND pin on the laser

I am using 80 for raster, 300 for Vector, 2000 for rapid

I probably have the fast skip blank on. Don’t want it to take 500 minutes


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Used your setting too. Only change  I did was set the speed to 80

Here is what I got

Now, when i was getting the wrong estimated time, i was working on rotary. I dont know if that changes things.

This is the laser i bought recently, so the first thing i did was flash the firmware, so i assume that it has your basic settings in there. I even set defaulted out T2 when i was troubleshooting my other laser

Where are those mugs located in a Walmart?
For 0.07 res, what DPI do you export at?
Does the electro etch really help?
Do you just use mr clean eraser and water?

I plan on testing again now that my file is fixed.

Looks pixelated. Did you use a low res image? The etch looks good. Dark color mugs look best. I did a light green mug and it didn't provide enough contrast. I like black mugs best

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I am going to try it again with a new export. I think i exported it at 0.2 res then put it into T2 at 0.1
I plan on black mugs, but green was all I had for testing.

Try restarting you computer.