Ok, pie in the sky here but would be cool to retrofit a laser cutter to also use a YAG laser.
Probably too much but: Moa Powa!
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Yes! I reacted to this the way Homer Simpson reacts to doughnuts 
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I personally can’t wait for metal shop’s fibre laser
You might contact Thunder Laser and see if they would be willing to import a YAG laser from whoever they currently import from. That way it would be similar to the systems and build quality we have been happy with.
Metal shop is getting a 1.5kW fiber laser, so there will be something like this eventually, except differently shaped.
WHAT, please tell me more!
2kW fiber lasers are now down to 4 unit high rack mounts now. Amazing tech!
You state that like it is already decided, but to me it is but a dream right next to the water jet. Congrats on your elections as head of laser and best of luck in your reign.
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A full size water jet is unlikely. They need lots of space, consumables, and maintenance. IE They are expensive to run. And they are sexy as hell.
I am encouraged about the “desktop” units. Still a young technology.
Eventually, a small unit should happen.
You state that like it is already decided, but to me it is but a dream right next to the water jet.
@hon1nbo should know more about the metal shop laser
Congrats on your elections as head of laser and best of luck in your reign.
Thanks! Should be fun 
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Don’t toy with us. My heart just skipped a beat.
Oh please let it be true! 
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Yes, 1.5kw output fiber laser. Draw’s 43kw, the service at 480, we will have to get a transformer, is about 53 amps. The rough calculations of heat load is around 13,000 BTU’s, just over 1 ton of cooling. We are still in the data gathering for it.
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The tale is one donor has the laser but no CNC bed. The other a bed but no plasma head. We are going to do a merge of the two.
Correct Bill. We wil have a intrusive alarm that keeps folk from getting too close to it when its running.
I thought it was a diode/fiber pumped laser not a arc lamp pumped laser. 
My lamp pumped laser uses 4-6kW to make 80watts of 1064nm.
Guy who had the 10kw fiber laser you guys talked about before here… 
That sounds like a 1.5kw fiber COUPLED laser (ie a lamp pumped yag), NOT a fiber laser. A 1.5kw fiber laser would only need 220v single phase. The heatload from a fiber coupled lamp pumped yag is NOT going to be 1 ton of cooling, but more like 15 or 20 tons. just a helpful FYI
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