Hello, my name is Max, I'm from Brazil. I'm doing a plasma cutting CNC. Watching your videos, I changed my mind and I'm going to do it with a laser. I have some questions. I want to do it to cut sheet metal and pipes. Which controller should I use and how many motors? If you can help me, I'll be very grateful. I'm a fitness equipment manufacturer.

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Sir I'm from india 🇮🇳 I want to make 6kw fiber laser sheet and tube cutting machine

Muito bom!

Can i make bed of any size with these? I am expecting about 3048mm x 1524mm

drooling over your servos... "drool"

Great tutorial, Travis! Is it necessary to use gearboxes on the servos? The gearboxes add backslash to the motion unless they are the zero backslash type which are more expensive. Does the software incorporate backslash compensation?

What are the names of the aiming pins in Max Photonic Responsible for working red laser and stopping it ? Thanks

I don’t think I saw a single Allen wrench used, love the hex drivers! Looking forward to sparks real soon!

would it make sense to tune the steppers with a tube in the chuck for length and rotation axes? or is the general advice to tune without it? I guess it'd be similar to tuning the spindle on a lathe

I'm stoked to see you using quality tools 😌

I just purchased a 6kw fiber laser kit from skyfire. They are great. While i plan my build, do you have any idea how tight radius i can have my dragchains if i run the fibe in them.

If you end up wanting the monitor up higher Wali does make a taller post assembly. Their mounts are also super versatile; in addition to using them to hold monitors I've got them setup to hold a pair of GVM LED panels and a tripod head for my camera.

I'm trying to setup my 4th axes and it just turns one way is that how it works?

Envy over the label maker 🤤

Great job on the cabling!

You are raising the bar very high for home DIYers. Awesome work.

Such great content! Good work!

We are waiting for some sparks Thank you for sharing

😉Disappointing that you don't have "a link in the description" for the Dymo Rhino 4200 label printer that prints to heat shrink tubing...😉

Buen dia señor Travis! Exelente trabajo. Lo unico que habría que modificar en mi humilde opinión seria sacar el resonador de la trayectoria del haz de laser ya que este levanta mucha temperatura y puede dañar el resonador. Saludos desde Argentina!!

Really cool project! But for some reason as with many Sim builds...how much $$ did the old gaming cabinet from FB cost?

Awesome machine, looking forward to seeing it cutting. Thanks for sharing.

I'm just checking. Did you put the two 24v supplies together. It's ok to split the block into two parts. But please don't run them together. On larger tools that have multiple 24v supplies they run a block of one supply and then another right next to it. So it would look like 24 positive and negative from supply one and then all the positive and negative for supply two. That separation will help you in the future if you need to find a problem. By having them both supply the same block you don't know how many amps are being used from them.

system XC3000 Or XC3000S

Great information

Please put a grommet in the hole for the optical cable in the top panel. I don't know why but I can't handle it not having a grommet.

Don't you mean to say Ethercat?

You are a serious engineer !!

This is such a cool project.

Travis, do you know the difference between the EL7 and EL8 series?

Muito bom !

Can't wait to see this thing cut!!!!

wow great job

Did you manage to get the small drive associated to the f-axis using ethercat? Wiring mine currently 😊

Can't wait to see the tuning process. Luckily there is only one motor per axis.....

What was your shipping cost of all laser components from skyfire?

Could you please put an estimation of the price for building one? thanks.

Man, having a youtube channel seems like the way to go. Free stuff galore... If only I didn't have the personality of a smooth rock! Fun series, good work :)

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I had a cnc router that would crop the waste. Meaning that it would cut up the small unusable part of the sheet so that I was left with a large piece. This was great in that I could add it to my next job as a smaller sheet size. I know that with this set up you can use almost every inch of a sheet. I just know that it's simpler to store usable parts and not a lot of flimsy ones.

One thing that I have noticed is that you are not using grommets for wires passing through steal. You can use some of the 6mm hose and cut it to make a cheap one. Just make a cut down the length and then test it and trim it to length. Or use silicone to hold the wires away from the sharp edges.

One way that you could fix your grounds is to add an other ground block and run from that. I have seen this done in a couple of high end cnc router machines.

Do you have a link for the 14 tooth pulley? or know the tooth pitch and size?

I know that cnc router water cooled spendles sometimes plug. You might need to install a wheel on the hot side so that you could see if the system is flowing.

You protected the power supplies. I didn't see anything for the drivers or the controller. You can put a fuse on the positive side to take care of that and if you wanted to you could wire the breaker into the estop switch so that it turns off in the event of overload. Sorry I just installed a weeky cnc router for a friend and had to replace some of the safety stops. That machine has 20. Half had shorts in the contacts so I had to replace them so I could power on the controller. The good thing is that he forgot to touch off a bit and the z axis and the spindle tripped when it tried to push through the spoil board. That turned everything off and had to be reset and rehomed and everything was fine. I worry about drivers on every diy cnc because they protect the power supply and then don't fuse the drivers or controler. Just know that this comes from the fact that one driver will probably not overload the power supply so you have the potential for destroying a component. Also try to only run low voltage with low voltage and high with high. Ac and dc don't always play nice and this can lead to lost steps and other problems later on down the road.

One thing to remember is that push button switches go bad. I know that 22mm switches are bigger than the ones you are using. The benefits of using a readily available size switch is that if it goes out you can source one locally. The other plus is that if you get tired of replacing the cheaper ones you can get name brand switches in the future. I know that I use Allen Bradley for this. I found that the contacts of the switch are the same price as the cheapest I can find. I also found that the switch last ten times as long. The only negative that I have found is that they can coast ten times that of the cheaper ones. On the up side they only have two contact blocks available. So it's not hard to have a spare in the bottom of the electrical box. My industry is wood so dust would kill the cheap ones about once a year.

Can this set up engrave metal as well? Love the series, have been watching since version 1. Hoping to build a 60”x120” machine for my shop in the near future.

At this rate the next project should be an angled bracket making machine haha

io board is eds3000