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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Dixie Duke - A machine in the making.

« on: March 29, 2011, 03:39:25 AM »

Looking forward to an update of this beauty - its been 7 month almost!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Win2000 Installation Problem

« on: December 23, 2010, 06:59:54 PM »

I know this is from 2006 -

I just spent the last 3 days fixing my duff X driver, i just spent the last 2 days trying to install mach3 -5 different versions from the archives and im getting the same error! I cant belive this...

Im just about to set fire to my PC, my Drivers & my cnc machine!

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 23, 2010, 08:50:56 AM »

Ps, im using a stable UBEC thats 5.1v clean

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 23, 2010, 08:44:24 AM »

445nm "casio" diode -

Yes i can confirm this - the only troube is, at work we have a 'parts' bin, with PCs of all different faults, so in this case it could actualy be the unit that does not work! Its all trial and error here...

I dont have a multimeter that will drop down to the mA range to see what sorta output the drivers i have got...

I have ordered a p3 drive that you recomended, and a unit to house it all in with a colimating lens...

i have no drawings of the drives i have got either, but i have a funny feeling the driver i have not got has either a voltage cut off at around 5.8v or a thermal shut down!

Still i have loads of them to mess around with...

Dont worry about the laser babbling, im really enjoying the laser geek things :-)

If i cant get any blue lensing, it wont be the end of the world, a red diode with a burn will be enough for cutting black depron for my needs!

ill check out the die4drive though!!

Got a link where i can see your laser stuffs?

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 22, 2010, 03:45:43 AM »

Im still having a hard time with this...

i got 8 blue ray diodes here, and 11 red diodes...

I can get all the reds to light up, but wont go past the light into the lensing stage - im guessing the drive i have is not powerful enough...

The blue ray diodes i cant even get to light...

what i will say is my soldering skills have improved tenfold over the last 72 hours!


I have added a 'Skirt' to my laser glasses using tape to cover the sides, lasers do infact bounce off anything!

Im having so much fun though!

I really want the blue diodes to work, much more powerful, im hoping to get up to 500-800mw with the coreect glass and focus housing! Alas, it wont be here untill the new year though (Stupid Uk postal services)

If i was smart enough, i would mill a PCB and make my own driver, but im dyslexic and i get too confused with numbers!

Thank god Mach3 does the Gcode for me eh!

merry Xmass all!

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 15, 2010, 01:23:18 AM »

Top quality, thanks for posting all of that info!

I got lots to read then at work today 

Im going to have a look at some broken blu ray diodes today, im sure we have some here at work!

I don't want to spend huge ammounts, i just want to cut some foam and maybe a bit of etching on some plywood

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 14, 2010, 04:00:41 PM »

I killed it with 12v 

It was almost heartbreaking yet some what fantastic too!

I been looking all over for a 150mw - 200mw laser, or laser diode and board in the UK, alas no luck!

Where did you get yours from? (Pm me if you dont want visable to the world) Hush Hush etc..

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 14, 2010, 01:40:23 PM »

Meh, nothing lost free dvd drives everywhere at work, im sure i have seen a few blu ray drives too!

Yeah, i would not spend silly money on one, or a few...

Ill just go see how many v's are coming out my unit

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 14, 2010, 01:12:26 PM »

This is true & i love that!

Keeping on the 'Laser' topic...

I have got a 32x speed diode from a cd burner, will the driver i have be enough to poer it? Trial and error?

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: My first attempts at laser engraving.

« on: December 14, 2010, 12:26:02 PM »

After looking at all your kit, i think id pass 

Do you mind if i copy your drag knife specs? im just like you with CNC, just a few years behind! and i have been building mine fore 3 years now :-)