Elegoo Phecda - A full 20w diode package for $600?!? 

good video nicely done clear, and you covered many good angels of laser engraving. I'm a complete noob my machine is actually on the way doing homework and glad I found your little cheat sheet here lol. subscribed looking forward to seeing more videos ✌

I bought this but haven’t set it up yet. This is very helpful. Thanks!

Thank you for a very good review. I just assembled my 10W Phecda last night... mostly. I still need to add the air assist, but first I need to reinsert the ends of the loose X and Y timing belts that were detached when handling the laser to assemble it. :-( I purchased the 10W version because I'm going to use it for engraving and it has half the spot size of the 20W version so it should do higher resolution engraving. $250 for a minimalist 10W laser is a good deal. I'm an electrical engineer and I design and build custom CNC machinery. Elegoo should have shipped the Phecda assembled. They're obsessed with flat packing everything because shipping (from China to the destination country and from the warehouse to the customer) is a large part of their cost, but this laser is mostly flat so unlike bed slinger 3D printers there is little savings in making the customer assemble a kit. It would be globally much more efficient to assemble the laser in China by people who have done that job hundreds of times in a controlled factory setting with production grade tools (torque drivers, etc.) and assembly fixtures rather than forcing the customer to figure out how to assemble a laser from a RU-vid video. Almost all customers would have gladly paid $50 more for an assembled and tested laser. The cost to Elegoo is probably the same because they could pay for the assembly at their factory with less material and effort packaging the parts, far fewer returned lasers, and more sales based on happier customers. The user should slide the laser head into the dovetail, tighten the screws to retain it, plug in the air assist hose and electrical connector on the laser head and maybe screw in the four feet. The user experience should mostly be: plug it in, don the protective goggles and turn it on. What we really need is for some nerd to reverse engineer the Phecda and show us the tips on how to use it. I'll be using the laser offline, in short run engraving production. So far, all I've seen are Lightburn videos and the happy 99% fact free Elegoo marketing video showing what it does but not how to do it. The supplied sample images are 284X284 pixel monochrome 8 bit PNG images. I want to know how the Phecda firmware interprets the PNG file. Monochrome only? Does the laser interpret gray scale as laser intensity, either by pulse width modulation or by dithering pixels? What is the resolution in pixels per millimeter? Can I home the laser from the front panel or manually push the laser head to the bottom left corner to home it and have the laser engraver accurately and repeatedly locate an engraving from the USB flash drive on a fixture that's located relative to the laser frame? I'll be learning all of that stuff for myself, hopefully this evening. I guess I should create a RU-vid channel and post this stuff myself, but I'd hope that there would be useful end user Phecda videos after three months. :-/ Thanks for the link to good laser protective glasses, even though I plan on building a light proof enclosure that's designed to suck in outside air and expel the exhaust outside.

This review helped. Thanks

The thing is a pack of 2 switches and cable to connect is less than £1. People have added them on the Facebook group but they should have come as a stock install.

The thing I wonder about is how the cost of the filters will add up as you go along.

Great video 👌 I see that this video is 2 months old now. Based on your experience, can you recommend this laser engraver? How reliably does it work? I've looked at so many lasers and there are just too many on the market. Should you spend a little more money and maybe buy a 30 watt one or is 20 watts enough for cutting and engraving work? The price drew my attention to this laser and I only know Elegoo from its SLA printers. But since I unfortunately find very few or no test/evaluation videos on the web, it is difficult to weigh up whether this laser is good or not. Sure, you can unpack a device and get started soon, but what does it look like after several hours of running? I have a few lasers on my watch list and they would be this Phecda, Atomstack x30Pro, Ikier K1Pro 30W, Longer Laser B1 30W, Longer Ray 5 20W, Creality Falcon 2 22W, Xtool D1Pro 20W. It would also be important to me to have a rotary that works properly, ideally one where the handles don't interfere with cups. 20-30W and Air Assist is important. I would be happy to receive feedback.

Ok question - how do you tell Lightburn to " engrave" and image... and then go back and cut it out?

Where do you get the test tool with circles? Is that through Lightburn also?

Can it cut trough 1/8 mdf?

Will this be able to cut clear plastic? I would like to cut out curved model windows from thin sheet but, well, it's a laser, is it going to pass right through and not expend any energy into the material?

I got the 10w with extras via kick starter. The inner fan and filter are a waste of time, they should have added limit switches instead of the filter/fan.

How does it connect to your computer? Hardwire of Bluetooth.

Hello . I also bought the same device. How can we obtain the cabin?

Any information on the enclosure, I need one.

Phecda vs ComMaker B4?

Can you cut a 2mm, 3.5mm acrylic sheet with this?

*I thought I can a Nice Wood Collection. LOL*

could it engrave sneakers?

If you were to have an enclosure and a powered filter air system going to the outside could u use this for a couple hours in an apartment? without sticking up the place or smoking it out. in addition would the neighbors be calling the fire department? lol

good video but the laser it self naaah, thanks for sharing