Let’s start by looking at the 4 Watt system and work our way up. Starting at 4 Watt systems for metal marking, and going up to 15 Watts with the dual beam DUOS laser, there are a range of lasers of various types and power levels to suit a range of budgets and needs, accordingly. You can see how easy it is to wire up the laser to the most common 3D printer boards at this link. The lasers are very easy to set up, and do not require any extra software or skills to install. What would be the logical next step? Switch the polarity on the 2pin? Connect the 3pin to Fan1? How would I do that, which Pins of the 3pin to connect to the fan1?įinally pics of the current state and the board: Įdit: Here is the post that started it.By replacing your printer hotend (or CNC toolhead) with a laser, you can make use of the XY motion to control the path of the laser to engrave metals and cut other materials.įlorida-based Endurance Lasers have been manufacturing their plug-and-play laser systems for CNC systems and 3D printers since 2015. Pulling the cable completely so the 2pin ist connected at all, same result. Maybe I used the wrong fan Port? So switching to fan2 but getting same result. It does not react to the Fan setting at all. When starting up the A8, the laser fires immediatly on full Power. Unfortunately both connectors on the laser board are labeled with PWM/TTL, so I am not sure if the 2pin connector can take the PWM signal, so just give it a try. I assume the 2pin is the PWM one that is to be connected to Fan1 on the anet board. Now there are two connectors left, a 2pin and a 3pin. I had some 2pin connectors in my spare part box, so that was easy. The plan was to connect the boards power in to the 12 V of the Anet Board. Attached the laser module to the now empty carriage, laser was already connected to the controler board.
Removed extruder and cabling as well as the heatbed connection. But we will see what's what later I guess. Opened the parcel, and OF COURSE the content looks different from what I ordered, and OF COURSE there are no schematics included.
Now the laser finally arrived from China, and here is my progress so far. I picked up the idea from a post here (link follows).
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