Foolish question... setting for 2 laser tubes when only 1 is installed
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021
First off, I am very new to laser cutters in general, so this may be a no brainer.
When our laser cutter arrived in January of this year, our designer (who had owned smaller lasers himself) made some changes to the user/machine settings and ended up bricking the machine lol... so the seller had their techs remote in and fix it. That is the last time we touched the user settings at all until my last post in this forum where I got some advice (and took it) to change a couple of the settings to try to fix another issue we were having.
Now the whole point to me telling you that ^ was to say that until that post a couple days ago, I never even looked at the user/machine settings. The machine was cutting... and still is (albeit with a few issues), and I am firmly in the camp of "if its not broke, don't fix it".
So... this may be perfectly fine, but according to my vendor settings my laser is a multitube laser... but its not. My unit contains a single laser tube only - and I have to assume that the seller set these settings up this way (screenshot attached)... now this has my brain leading to all sorts of things (like maybe this is the reason my 100W laser can sometimes barely cut 3mm plywood/acrylic without issues).... could it be that these settings are causing power issues in my laser? should I change that to "one tube" configuration? Is there any reason the seller's techs would set it this way on purpose?
any info appreciated!
When our laser cutter arrived in January of this year, our designer (who had owned smaller lasers himself) made some changes to the user/machine settings and ended up bricking the machine lol... so the seller had their techs remote in and fix it. That is the last time we touched the user settings at all until my last post in this forum where I got some advice (and took it) to change a couple of the settings to try to fix another issue we were having.
Now the whole point to me telling you that ^ was to say that until that post a couple days ago, I never even looked at the user/machine settings. The machine was cutting... and still is (albeit with a few issues), and I am firmly in the camp of "if its not broke, don't fix it".
So... this may be perfectly fine, but according to my vendor settings my laser is a multitube laser... but its not. My unit contains a single laser tube only - and I have to assume that the seller set these settings up this way (screenshot attached)... now this has my brain leading to all sorts of things (like maybe this is the reason my 100W laser can sometimes barely cut 3mm plywood/acrylic without issues).... could it be that these settings are causing power issues in my laser? should I change that to "one tube" configuration? Is there any reason the seller's techs would set it this way on purpose?
any info appreciated!
