VLS honeycomb bed crashes into air assist cone

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VLS honeycomb bed crashes into air assist cone

Post by bradders » Thu 11 Dec , 2008 16:40 pm

VLS honeycomb bed crashes into air assist cone

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Post by bradders » Thu 11 Dec , 2008 16:43 pm

Note ?

IF a new computer is connected to a VLS laser and auto Z is not set, then the software will not know where the bed is and not home and hence could cause the bed to crash into the air assist cone

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Post by Martin » Thu 11 Dec , 2008 23:20 pm

The auto z only raises the bed or drops the bed to where it thinks the focus point should be.

It is best to home the Z axis each time you power up the laser cutter. The VLS 2.3/3.5 model needs to be told to home manually. It may be worth installing the fume extraction alarms in which is a option to "Home Z on Power Up".
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Post by bradders » Fri 12 Dec , 2008 7:41 am

The VLS range and not the VL range as specified in the title

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Post by Andrey Anfimov » Tue 16 Dec , 2008 23:08 pm

Before using Versalaser make calibrations for all kind of options.
Without calibrations Versalaser does not know where is "0" point and rise table very high.
Versalaser store calibrating value in memory on the CPU board. So it does not matter what computer you use with Versalaser.

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Post by bradders » Wed 17 Dec , 2008 9:15 am

The VLS range of Laser's unlike the VL range stores the height settings on the PC and not the Laser CPU

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Post by Andrey Anfimov » Wed 17 Dec , 2008 11:21 am

Where? What file stores the height settings?

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Post by Steve » Thu 18 Dec , 2008 20:08 pm

The z datum position is stored on the lasers CPU.

You cannot access it. Just recalibrate.

First calibrate the lens to the engraving table then calibrate the cutting table.

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