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!
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!
Yes! I reacted to this the way Homer Simpson reacts to doughnuts
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.
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
Don’t toy with us. My heart just skipped a beat.
Oh please let it be true!
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.
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