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Laser Subcommittee Meeting 2020-05-16
Attendees: BlakeS, NickB, FletcherB, Felix
BlakeS: Trialing Saturday mornings
Possible rearrangement of machines for combined ducting and chiller stacking
We'd still like
red dot beam combiners
, which would render getting a tube that has a built in aiming beam moot
Would we like one?
Nick, Blake: yes; Fletcher: no
Fletcher: Recommends crowdfunding it at
https://finance.artifactory.org.au/
TODO
KH7050 Kellogg/Middle
3mm MDF at 22mm/sec
LG500 Little Red (out-of-order)
Requires air extraction
LC1290 Big Red
Vacuum internals
Reduce Z-stepper current, by DIP switches on the driver (was set to maximum: 7.8A, now 3.6A)
Level bed, add 4 vent holes
Empty compressor tanks, water trap (more content: needed doing)
Hour meter
The hour meter started from 1.6 hours, at 20171210 , 512 beam-active cutting hours per annum
Date
Hour count
20171210
1.6
20171217
11.5
20180604
181.65
20181217
488.9 100W installed 20181222
20190311
590.1
20191216
1026.3
20200113
1055.7
20200215
1083.6
20200516
1170.0