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After 42 years I have seen and felt a lot. Lightning knocking me down. High voltage damage. Low voltage faults. Inductive faults. Crosses, shorts and Grounds. Water, ants, mice and rat urine, bird nests, cats, dogs, horses, goats, Today as I was machine sanding 10 cedar 12" by 18" long map blanks th...

Compiled this Laser Database of laser settings from 5 watt to 40 watt lasers. Got the information from xtool and Atomstack and a bunch of Youtube videos as well as burning 45 test cards that FIT VCARVE PRO and ASPIRE Laser settings and inputting the information and pictures of these into the databas...

Spent 42 years as a Lineman for at&t. Bonding and Grounding was a daily thing I worked on. I took a old extension cord that was 12" long with the male plug still on it. Cut the Hot and the neutral wires short and isolated them apart and sealed them up so they could not be in contact with anything. T...

Everything is holding together just fine. The 20 watt laser has been out carving Buffalo River Backpacking Trails on a 12 by 18" piece of wood for the last 7 hours. 1st 3.5 hours was testing the toolpaths on a piece of mdf. The last 3 hours it's been lasering out a very cool keep sake for a good bac...

2 days ago while using a 2" flatten bit on my spoil board we noticed the lasers bottom safety view port was hanging down. I had 4 screws work loose and fall out of the laser head. I was very fortunate to find the 4 screws and catch the loose hardware before it got damaged. I put the unit back togeth...

Video on making some laser test cards and the Vcarve files I wrote to test with. I have added another 2 filled test files to the download file that is not covered in this video.
Here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb3kwD8BLpo

Here is a link to 4 vcarve test files for the 20 watt laser. Check your file settings and keep a eye on any files you try for the first time. These 5 files are setup to use the Laser Module in Vcarve Desktop, Pro and Aspire. I used the laser module in vcarve to make these test files. Pretty straight...

You may find some of the answers to your questions in these videos I just put up. Updated video: Here is the new link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPdjRDDU1o&feature=youtu.be I am adding a gate to vent to outside feature on my CNC dust collection. 2 boxes that slide inside and out of each other...

Thanks for the kind words Darsh. I really enjoy this stuff.

When looking at the home app on the pendant it says "sensor". My 510 doesn't have sensors on it. So I have not used the app before. It says to get it with in 4" of the lower left corner in both x and y and let it do it's thing. Is it the hard stops it is sensing to come up with xyzero "home" ? I nee...