My opinion, MOPA is not a great beginning machine. Get a hugh power without MOPA. You can still get colors adjusting speed and frequency. MOPA is cool, but it adds another conplication to set the other pulse length. Instead of one frequency you have 2 to adjust for every project. In all honesty except in some edge cases, its nit worth the hassel to setup all of these changing numbers for each type of material. Does it do more? Sure. Is that MORE worth the extra price? And How often will you actually play with it enough to use the MORE part? For me, especially if you are just getting into it, its extra that you will not really use that much and its also adds a lot to test runs for learning the machine that makes the entire process more difficult. I have played with both, but if it was my first machine I would buy as high power as I could afford and leave MOPA for later after you know what your doing. Power is more important than adding a second parameter in 99% of the actual jobs you will take on.
Thanks for informative video. Looking forward to future videos on rotary and MOPA frequency engraving. I dream of having a machine like this but I can not afford. I will have to get my small business moving to get the money.
Apart from portability, is there any advantage to a machine like this over the bigger Chinese machines that usually come in cheaper with the same overall hardware? Im researching at the moment before buying but dint see the value in something like this over, as an example, a Haotian or OMG laser with same specs.