Making Progress! I bought new lenses for the machine, along with new nozzles. Holy COW what a difference that makes. I think the old ones were bad enough, quality of beam on material was not very good. I haven't been able to work on THIS particular part with the new lens, but having used it...
Imagine light bulbs lighting up brighter [thumbsup] That makes sense. We'll give it a shot and see what we can get to work.
If you have a minute. Could you list what the different head #'s equate to? We've just been running whatever shows up in the cut condition tables "as-is" with the 5"...
Messing around with this for almost a week. And from all of the reading I've done, I'm coming to the conclusion that we may be using the wrong lens on the thicker material. Machine came with a 5.0" lens installed. Form reading other forums/threads, I'm beginning to think we should be using a...
drossfree, Thanks! I'll give that a shot and see. And I didn't know focus always comes from E1. That might explain why changes we've didn't seem to have any effect on the cuts afterwards.
More testing today. I made a few adjustments to speed that helped the backside of the piece look a lot...
Running an Amada LC-1212-A3 (2KW Fanuc Laser / Fanuc 160iL control). We've had it running now about 9 months mostly cutting 26ga to 13ga stainless and galvanized. We are working on a project for our sister company to cut some parts out of .375CRS. I'm not having much luck with part of it...
