I currently have what I thought was the most powerful for the price range blue diode laser on my MPCNC and it is maybe 4 watts. I assume this laser is not 10 times as powerful or equivalent to a 40 watt CO2 laser correct?
False advertising at best and a scam at worst. If you take a sample of laser module advertisements and look at the reported specs, the consumed power of these modules is typical 5X to 8X of the optical power. In this case, the power supply that comes with the laser produces is only 48W, and they say they producing 40W of optical power using that power supply. Not happening. I’ve seen advertisements for 40W lasers that have a advertised optical output of 5.5W, so that is probably what this is. And I would not put much faith in the 5.5W either.
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You really have to watch the china stuff and descriptions. It does not make sense that it is 40 watt laser output. They are claiming 83% efficiency.
The specs say 12V input and 4amp current, this is 48 watt input. They say 40watt output and
25 watt focus. I have no idea what that means. Then a line says 40 watt at 10%.
My guess is you will be able to run only for a very short time, maybe 10% pulse, maybe 10 watts
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I figured as much, thanks Robert. I really want something more powerful to strap to my primo because I like dragging the exhaust hose around with the head which lets me have an open machine instead of the standard CO2 enclosure. Waiting for someone to be the first to strap a fiber laser from an engraver machine on one.
I looked into doing that (putting a fiber laser on my primo) issue is fiber wavelength is only good for non organic material. Then I looked at fiber coupled co2, but that hasn’t progressed much in the last few years. Really right now the best option is a 7W blue solid state laser. I have heard reports that with some pretty extreme cooling you could maybe get 10W output power (though I don’t know if that could be sustained without refrigeration)
Edit: I should point out that there are some low wavelength fiber lasers, but they are outrageously expensive(like buy a complete industrial co2 cutter for the same price expensive). So I am excluding those from my statement that fiber lasers won’t cut wood. As far as fiber for cutting metal, seems like unless you really want to engrave (rather than through cut) plasma cutters are probably a better option.
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lol, Robertu, you already covered it, didn’t see you till after the repy key click
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