RatchetHundreda
Plastic
- Joined
- Nov 20, 2020
Hi everyone!
I'm new to this site, this is my first post. I was trying to find some place on the web where I may get some help from people who know what they are doing and joined here in the hope that I may find what I'm looking for.
We have a cheap Chinese FIBER q-switched marking machine at my workplace which just stopped working properly. It simply no longer marks uniformly and has a sort of "gradient" where the laser power ramps up before reaching max power. This is a huge problem for obvious reasons. After our first round of trying to find the cause we came to the conclusion that the problem must be with the laser source itself. We swapped the laser sources with one in another machine and the laser source does the same on the other machine too so it's an obvious case. The less obvious part is figuring out what could go wrong in these laser sources which would result in this behavior. I tried to troubleshoot it myself but to no avail. Google wasn't too friendly on the matter either. There's just so little info on how these things work exactly.
It would be nice if we would not have to buy a brand new laser source but fix it on the component level, but I understand it might be asking for too much.
Did anyone here encounter a similar problem perhaps? If not does anyone have some insight into what might be the cause?
Attached are some pictures of the insides of the laser source and some examples of the marking behavior.
I'm new to this site, this is my first post. I was trying to find some place on the web where I may get some help from people who know what they are doing and joined here in the hope that I may find what I'm looking for.
We have a cheap Chinese FIBER q-switched marking machine at my workplace which just stopped working properly. It simply no longer marks uniformly and has a sort of "gradient" where the laser power ramps up before reaching max power. This is a huge problem for obvious reasons. After our first round of trying to find the cause we came to the conclusion that the problem must be with the laser source itself. We swapped the laser sources with one in another machine and the laser source does the same on the other machine too so it's an obvious case. The less obvious part is figuring out what could go wrong in these laser sources which would result in this behavior. I tried to troubleshoot it myself but to no avail. Google wasn't too friendly on the matter either. There's just so little info on how these things work exactly.
It would be nice if we would not have to buy a brand new laser source but fix it on the component level, but I understand it might be asking for too much.
Did anyone here encounter a similar problem perhaps? If not does anyone have some insight into what might be the cause?
Attached are some pictures of the insides of the laser source and some examples of the marking behavior.