Thunder Laser Co2 Mirror alignment process. Do not attempt if don’t fully understand your machine!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- In this video I show you how to do a mirror adjustment on your co2 laser. My laser is a Thunder Nova 35-100 watt machine. This is the first alignment I’ve had to do since I purchased it 2 years ago. We discuss some terminology you will need to know and what steps to follow. There are several ways to accomplish this, this is the process that makes sense to me. A shout out goes to Chris Locascio of Thunder Laser (video link below)for idea of aligning the red light to the laser beam path, he covered this is a video he produced several months ago and it works great.
Another mirror alignment video from Chris Locasico
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A word of caution, please don’t attempt this unless you full understand the process and your laser. Adjusting your mirrors improperly can have a catastrophic effect on the ability of your laser. You should rule out the following BEFORE you attempt this procedure.
1. All mirrors and focus lens is clean and properly placed
2. You have confirmed you honeycomb is parallel with your x gantry.
Thunder Laser link to mirror alignment process
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Hey man you are awesom. I am glad I found your channel. My CO2 laser tube was broken. I replaced today but was getting difficult to align. I realized that My safety settings (power, speed, etc.) was wrong. I am glad I didn't hurt myself. I was watching a different youtube while pulsing. You cannot immagen how much thanfull to your explanation. keep doing what you are doing.
That is awesome I appreciate your comment, glad this video helped you out!
You did an excellent job of explaining what you are looking for with the dots. You always do a good job with your videos. the one part that was missing that I think would have been very helpful, at least to me was the actual adjustments of the knobs to move the laser pulse into the right direction. I watched my Laser Tech do this when he setup my machine, and frankly it was a bit confusing on which know did what with moving the beam. I know there are other videos out there but it would've been nice to have one resource for me to go to. I do think this will be helpful to people but doesn't tell people how to physically make the adjustments - just what to look for.
ya I agree just didn’t it want to be a 45 minute video. with having the red light in sequence with the laser beam it really easy to visually see what direction your adjustment is going because you can see the red light and it’s movement. I appreciate your inputs
@@computercreationz I totally understand. Recently started my own YT channel - not as experienced as you I find it hard to determine what to put in and out. I only mentioned the part of the actual adjustment that in the event you did film doing it, you could consider making it available for our learning. You do a very good job with these things.
I would love to see a part 2 where you comeback and say - in my previous video I demonstrated what what should be looked for when doing the mirror adjustment, but I have had request for showing the physical knob movements and how using the red dot makes this so much easier than other videos I have seen...
thanks again for making the videos. I do instructional videos mostly on CNC and Epoxy stuff. I plan on branching into Lasers eventually but need to learn more to feel good about making a video. There are only a few laser content creators that I get as much from their instruction as I do yours. Good work and thank you.
I agree with Rob. I don't think it matters with this kind of video if it's twenty minutes or a hour and twenty minutes...you want all the information in one place. This is the best video I've seen explaining the steps from mirror one all the way to the cone.
This comes up a lot on the FB groups and I'm glad you made this super simple.
thank you! it’s not bad once you get the red don’t in sequence with the laser beam. much easier to see where the adjustments are going. thank for watching!
Thank you for what you do for our community. People like you are how I was able to start my own business and help other local small businesses. I really appreciate you.
Thank you for taking the time and making this helpful video!
You're very welcome!
Amazing as always man!! Good job.
thank you! I appreciate the comment and you watching
👍👍👍 Good boss 👌👌👌
Many many thanks
Hey awesome video I had a question what if mirror 2 has no laser beam (red light to mirror 3
Please remember the red light comes from a different source than the laser beam. The only way you can tell where your laser beam is to put tape over mirror 2 and pulse the laser the hole will tell you where the actual laser beam is. You always should adjust your red light to where your laser beam is that way it’s much easier to see where your adjusting
Hello you mentioned with your beam as long as it’s hitting the same spot, but mine isn’t hitting in the same spot what do I do when it’s not hitting in the same spot when I do my test?
some larger lasers will move quite a bit you just need to average the movement and go from there. the cheaper the laser the bigger this movement can be!
My beam is not hitting in the same spot…the right side of my laser is severely off hitting top right of the circle/mirror
it will move some especially with larger lasers you just need to find the average in the middle. it won’t be the same all over the bed
You should of shown the people how you adjusted …
ya I thought about that but people tent to not watch a very long video. it shows in the stats. I do agree it would have been helpful. maybe a part 2!
Very good video with lots of tips.
thank you! thanks for watching
Watched your video but my pulse button is not working when I push it.
it could be that the setting is too low to fire the tube. you can increase your pulse % in the controller.
Waist of time tells you you need pulse in same. Hole but not how to get it there just adjust it
I’m sure you’ve mastered it by now
I want a thunder so bad! omtech is a yugo...Thunder is a Mercedes!
they are great machines!
You forgot to mention that the mirrors you got form Thunder Laser are shit and corrode.
What are you cutting or engraving that you shouldn’t be to corrode mirrors. I’ve never had any issues with any of there components.