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Notes:
- Little red
- Cutting fine at around 12mm/s for 3mm MDF
- Tube change being pursued
- Require end extension
- Require tube mounts
- Big red
- Was cutting badly <40mm/s for 3mm MDF
- Tried head heights from 18mm to 22mm and at no height did it cut well
- Focus looked bad
- Inspected lens and found it dirty
- Cleaning lens has helped
- Drawing about 31mA when cutting
- Too high - our limit is 26mA
- Max power was set 85%. Reduced to 65% and saved and downloaded.
- Also had to redownload job to get new max power to be effective
- Back to 25mA now
- After cleaning lens, cut speed slowed after several cuts
- Replaced lens and found that improved things
- Optimal nozzle to material height between 19mm and 20mm. Offset set to 14mm to achieve this by z datum.
- Cut speeds up to 55mm/s on 3mm MDF
- Hour meter 181.65 hours