11 May
2016
11 May
'16
1:58 p.m.
I forgot to include this link:
http://www.idacontrol.com/articles.php?nid=10
and a picture of the laser:
http://i.imgur.com/eXwf7Lo.jpg
I looked it up and to put out 75 watts of laser power, we should probably
feed in about 187 watts, or 2.5 times as much DC power in. That means we
need 112 watts of cooling with the liquid path.
we can put sonar sensors on the front of the laser so we can pre-focus it
by distance while preparing works to be cut.
-jake
On Wed, 11 May 2016, Jake wrote:
we got a giant laser for the robot. This will allow
it to cut things
precisely for us, even if they're really large.
of course to do this we'll have a safety interlock to prevent use by
untrained people, and we'll have a safety curtain or folding wall to deploy
around the robot while the laser is enabled, so nobody can accidentally see
the light coming from it.
I don't know the wavelength of the laser, but it's a giant laser diode array
with a lens on the end, and it has a water cooling jacket, and i think i was
told it's a 75 watt laser. we do have a way to power it.
if anyone wants to get involved with playing with this, please let me know.
I think we could get it to the point where it could cut through some serious
stuff, and the extremely large work area of the robot is a big deal.
-jake