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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Regarding power consumption I found this on the Trotec laser website. In the example they provide they are working with an 80watt laser so cut that in half for the K40. They are a commercial laser company so they are also assuming you are cutting every day.

    https://www.troteclaser.com/en-us/learn-support/faqs/laser-power-consumption

    In order to give you a specific figure for power consumption, we have drafted the following example:

    A Speedy 400 laser machine with 80 watts laser power An average effective working time of 2 hours a day Of which 50% of the time with maximum laser power (80 > watts) and 50% of the time with half laser power (40 watts) This results in a power consumption of approx. 50 kWh per month, which corresponds to the consumption of 2 office PCs. This is always a surprisingly low value for many customers.


  • I don’t think it actually pulls too much current, compared to other power tools. It’s powered off 115v, amps aren’t super high. Less than most of my tools.

    I have not used blender or a 3d printer but I would guess it’s probably a lot easier to design since it’s 2d. There is a little more planning maybe because you have to visual how the 2d plans will come together in real life.

    I think you would have no problem if you are already doing 3d printing





  • Looks cool.

    Ignore if you already know this, but I was having issues when I joined a few weeks ago so passing on what I learned.

    Unlike reddit, Lemmy lets you edit your original post so you can still add the image if you wanted. Either the direct image link from wherever you are hosting or you can upload to whatever Lemmy instance you’re on. I had trouble getting images to upload until I learned there was a 100kb limit on lemm.ee. It will just fail to load without providing useful error message unless your under your servers file size limit.