CNC Shark Forum

I'm sure there are a few parts that I haven't seen, but that doesn't look like anything that I know of. Might have just gotten into the box by mistake rather than falling off the machine although I would have been suspicious also.

Roger

Are you wanting some kind of 3d carving of some kind or are you just wanting the text of the hymns engraved in wood or another material. What I think of when I hear you talk about it is that it would be the text of the song carved in wood with an appropriately selected type style (font) to make it l...

Its possible it could be one of a couple of things. On the power supply that you used you may be getting close to the maximum current limit. Some power supplies have a "current foldback" type limiting circuit that will cut the voltage back to keep from going over the current limit. Some will even cu...

I think generally speaking most people refer to UPS units as a "battery backup" simply because it contains batteries that are used to generate the power when the line goes out. On my camera surveillance system I have a true "battery backup" in that it is putting out the same regulated DC voltage whe...

Hi Tony,
That turned out nicely. I hate to question your process but since I'm not doing acrylics yet I am still trying to learn. You stated .002 deep with the ball nose bit. Was that a typo? Seems like .002" didn't sound right for something like that.

Roger

If I am correct, the 3528 is on the lower level of light output but are an excellent choice for lithophanes. The 5050 are a good deal brighter and I think is what I used in my first litho box but the ones I got were actually divided into three "white" leds in one unit instead of a red, green and blu...

I really don't have any ideas of trying to control or remotely automate my shark but I did want to be able to look in on it and make sure it hadn't gone crazy or to look at the progress. I put a network camera on mine to do this. Here is the thread that I started some time back on it. http://www.cnc...

I think the main thing you want to look for is that it has USB2 capability or better. Other than that I have used a XP running on an Acer Aspire Netbook and it worked find. I don't think the computing capability is all that critical but the speed of the USB port that it is connected to is.

Roger

Hi Jim, Personally I am more attentive to what I name the .crv files than the tap files. I try to categorize the names so that they will stay together, like plaque ~ xxxxx or headstone ~ xxxxxx then I can at least get to the same kind of design and look through the files to see. I do have a lot of t...

I would highly recommend that you get the upgrade from VCarve Desktop to the VCarve Pro. I don't know all of the missing items in the Desktop version but I am going to say it is significant. I just figured it the HD3 would come with the Pro version.

Roger