[sudo-discuss] Lsser cutter.... Dead?

[hol at gaskill.com]

Were you printing on vector or raster mode? Last time I used it there
was all kinds of crazy behavior until I switched over to vector mode,
cut like a charm.  That's the one tool I keep meaning to swing by and
use but never leave enough time to get set up for.
On 2018-10-03 14:10, robb wrote:

> i wonder if it needz itz contacts cleaned 
> i'll spray the usb port w/contact cleaner 2day 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:00 PM Morgan Allen <morganrallen at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> @robb eeeh, not quite. 
> 
> @jake 4 bad USB cables then 1 mediocre one? Dunno, theories: 
> 1) 
> USB Connector is worn and the cable needs to have good springyness to make contact. 
> 
> 2) 
> The power supply in the cutter is dying and causing power sags, 
> the higher quality cable is more fault tolerant when this happens. 
> 
> In the end, stalling still occurred with the best cable. Other problems observed, despite various 
> focal lengths I had to cut <30% speed, 100% power 4-5 passes to cut 1/8" acrylic. 
> In the past I would have cut this with round 40/60 3 passes. This could be mirror focusing, which 
> I didn't have time to perform. I also noticed a burnt spot on mirror #2. 
> 
> Between stalling and burnt mirrors I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is unsafe to use 
> until a major overhaul is performed. 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 5:52 PM Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote: jeez do you think it was a bad USB cable or a coincidence of something else
> going wrong?  were you using your own computer or the dedicated desktop?
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Morgan Allen wrote:
> 
>> Of course I try "just one more cable" and it works. It shockingly lives
>> another day.
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 5:17 PM Morgan Allen <morganrallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Trying to get through a project but the laser isn't behaving. Stalls
>>> during a cut (with laser on of course) but manages tp start back up a dozen
>>> times before just stopping and burning a hole in the piece. Tried 4 or 5
>>> usb cables with varying results but still couldn't get a complete cut
>>> 
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