Dear all,
Firstly I would like to congratulate Barton Dring and the community for this open-source initialive.
My name is Jean-Michel and I am part of French hacker club
Electrolab.fr and we are planning to build a buildlog.net 2.0 laser for our own need (not for the lab itself).
We are two members working on the project and I just registered on your forum.
Here is a projects page on our wiki :
http://wiki.electrolab.fr/Projets:Perso ... r/engraverWe are using this page as a supplier thread and a build thread.
We also hope to bring visibility on your project.
My first and only question at the moment:
Is it possible to boost laser power to cut 1mm alumunium?
I guess we should need at least 80W to 160W laser power and a completely different system?
We suppose this is not possible, but if any of you was able to cut aluminium, please let us know!
At least, can we boost laser to more than 40W or would that be dangerous?
Great project, we are happy to join and will start dedicated threads on the forum if we have questions.
Kind regards,
Jean-Michel