For those of you who own your own lasers at home … how awful is it to try to vent it outside? Did you need an auxiliary blower or other stuff to do it?
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it’s not difficult. In most cases we’re talking the use of a 4" vent hose. A worse problem is noise.
In one place, I ran the hose to the outside thru a board where the blower (really a dust collector) was housed in a rubbermaid doghouse which made it quite and safe from rain.
Since then dedicated blowers have popped up which are made for indoor use. They are not to loud.
A board with a 4" hole which you can insulate and close the window on (think like a window AC) works just fine. This has worked with both horizontal and vertical sliding windows. In one case I added a blast gate so I could close it off when the weather was cold. Nowadays, I just have a dryer vent on the outside which I can run the dryer hose to. cheers!
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Like Nick, I used the laser to cut a piece of masonite clad insulation for a board to go into an external window. Unless I was doing rastering on sugar to make ornaments, smelled so good!
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My first laser job was cutting a piece of clear plexiglass to make an insert for my window, to continue to let light in, while venting the exhaust.
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