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Laser Subcommittee Meeting 2021-08-21
Attendees: FletcherB, GlynnJ, BruceC, NickB, BlakeS
Next meeting(s): Four weeks: regular third Saturday 14:00 ? OK
LG500 "Little Red"
cutting 3mm MDF in centre and corners of the bed at 25mm/s
clean lens, set height
KH7050 "Kellogg/Middle"
Blake: Reinstalled PC?
GlynnJ: Setting up controller with
https://lightburnsoftware.github.io/
30-day trial licence, Fletcher's donated a paid license, covers 2 PCs
Ruida 644XG driver
X-axis appears to be wired backwards?
LC1290 "Big Red"
cutting 3mm MDF in centre and corners of the bed at 23mm/s (poor)
Fletcher: 5 point test cuts! 23--26mm/sec?
Dirty mirror #2? Cleaned
Mirror alignment? Looks fine
Tube coolant? Clear
Level bed: BS, GJ: rear right slipped down?
Need under-bed lighting
2x battery lights in toolbox - 4x flat AA's, poor battery terminal spring connections (will jiggle and turn off)
Empty compressor tanks (needed), water trap (recently done?)
Hour meter
The hour meter started from 1.6 hours, at 20171210 , 400-512 beam-active cutting hours per annum
Date
Hour count
20171210
1.6
20171217
11.5
20181217
488.9 100W installed 20181222
20191216
1026.3
20201219
1441.1
20210320
1515.6 SPT-TR130W tube installed
20210515
1554.1
20210619
1581.1
20210717
1598.5
20210821
1617.8