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Laser Cutter Advisory Information #6

Open syberphunk opened 7 years ago

idnorton commented 7 years ago

This is well worth referencing when we get to this:

http://hackaday.com/2016/11/24/90-videos-take-you-from-laser-chump-to-laser-champ/

amunizp commented 7 years ago

specific H&S to be mentioned as well?

amunizp commented 6 years ago

Also guidance of materials to use has been a point in our space.

idnorton commented 6 years ago

So suggested titles:

Intro

Types of laser

Laser diodes
CO2 tubes
Others?

Axis/artefacts of movement

x, y, z
power
speed

Controllers

Leetro
Smoothie
What else?

Extraction and fume control

Extraction (flow rates vs tube power, noise considerations, duct diameter and lengths, cleaning and maintenance)
Filtration

Cooling for tubes

Passive cooling via water based heat exchangers
Active cooling using refrigeration units

Safety

Invisible radiation
Cabinet interlocks
Material choice and fumes

Training

What training?

Software and compatability

DXF format for laser cutting

Remember that the aim of the top level document is to give someone who knows nothing about laser cutters the facts that they need to make an informed choice.

Specific examples of what people have done and how that's worked for them should be kept to the case studies.

@amunizp hopefully that gives an idea of headings?

idnorton commented 6 years ago

Oh, totally forgot:

Optics

Mirrors
Lenses
Power meters

Maintenance

Cleaning mirrors
Cleaning lenses
Lubrication of slides
Removal of residue
Optical alignment

idnorton commented 6 years ago

Possibly also:

Water replacement in chiller systems (legionnaire's disease risks)
Tube replacement

Should mention about high voltages associated with tubes in the tube section.

amunizp commented 6 years ago

I would change the title of '''safety ''' to '''safety & materials''' . Materials seems to be one of the first questions people seem to ask. ''What can it cut?''.

This makes me think that rather than having ''types of laser'' we should have ''what do you want to cut?''. More end user focus. In some occasions this might be pointing towards other similar machines such as wire eroding, vynl cutting, or even CNC machining.

So a compromise would be:

Choose your cutter

By price

By Material

By technology

But this has a high risk of needed an actual database management. But a simple colapsable table should suffice.

For simplicity, I would leave it as it is and we can listen to feedback.