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Joined: 07/09/2016
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| Posted: 10:21am 16 Jul 2020 |
Morning Revlac
I used the defaults tbh, they worked without any tweaks for me so I just left them.
I would love to see the results of this on your K40 - I letch after one as I think it's motion being way more professional - especially the static laser with right-angle mirror guiding. Should be way superior.
One thing i would really like to crack is the 40thou thing, but then I would have much tinier cuts and more chance of bridging when soldering.
I do use the above method a lot for small runs and small boards, I had to butcher a production board (because of a silly mistake I made) and a tiddly 3-channel level-shifter was produced in under an hour which was "dead-bugged" onto the board and fixed things. Far from ideal but also not a re-order and 12 day delay.
I make loads of little add-ons like this. the level-shifter, a soft power-off conversion board etc. and the eleksmaker is most at home doing small tasks like this.
I did etch a one-off 6"x 4" as a raster (so no "incidental" copper flood) - it did a reasonable job but took over 11 hours with the beam set to 0.075mm to avoid the "jaggies" (with mixed success). But the board turn out ok and is in use. Saves me having to backwire or use stripboard.
can't wait to see your results - good luck and have fun
p.s. when cutting with LW, there is a count top left of the number of movements remaining, so there is a progress/countdown of sorts.