Keep in mind that the Amber acrylic not causing the laser to mark the paper and the amber acrylic protecting your eyes from being damaged or not necessarily the same thing.
If you mount the laser completely coaxially to the spindle, you could use a little circular PCB with concentric power and control lines, and some pogo pins mounted on the tool, to just have it in the ATC rack and completely wire-free when not in use :)
That is an awesome idea! I don't think the Masso has the logic to accomplish this though...it doesn't seem that tool 111 is like the others that you can assign a tool change position on the rack, the logic assumes it is permanently attached to the gantry and has logic to raise/lower it via pneumatics.
You should prevent the spindle from running, while the laser is in! I did something similar with my 3D Probe, using a sensor in the parking holder, which cuts the VFD Run Signal. But overall pretty cool idea!
@@Eric-vq9nq why not! The lathe will only start if the key is in its parking holder… I built this security feature after destroying my Haimer 3D probe! It got ripped apart at some 1000 RPM. 😬
Very nicely done! Looks really good. I was planning something similar but my controller can't do lasers, and my gantry is too heavy to effectively move quickly. So I'm probably just going to have to build a separate gantry and motion system :-/
Great adaptation! Did you have to implement some software in your controller board in order to translate G-code (especially for the laser power) into Masso's own set of commands, or the traditional firmware (Marlin etc...) you can find on any commercial laser engraver?
no, it was really simple, they have instructions on how to set up Lightburn so it outputs the correct gcode for Masso: docs.masso.com.au/quick-start-guides/laser-engraving-cutting/setting-up-lightburn
I'm not doing anything special...the first layer on the Q1 Pro has looked great on every print out of the box, so much so that it has me thinking about how to incorporate that nice textured surface on every part that I print.
The dots were only there when I was manually jogging the laser...I would activate the laser and it would sit there and burn before I could start moving it and continue to burn after I stopped until I deactivated it. There is no problem with the Masso, when it ran a program there were no dots.
@@diyfiberlaser That is awesome. I am currently welding a table together for my onefinity elite foreman cnc router with 3HP spindle and MASSO controller. After I finish that I was planning on mounting the BM110 autofocus fiber laser head on the front of the spindle with a bracket to be able to slide it up and down when I am and am not using it. I may be getting a 2kW Raycus for the build from China. Your video inspired me.
I'm going to start with a manual focus head and see if I can get that to work first before attempting autofocus...autofocus combined with figuring out the THC adds a layer of complexity that I need to break into smaller projects in order to digest : ) @@loganbrantley7216
