Use heat shrink tubing to cover the splice.
K40 laser cutter wiring diagram.
The current control is of course tied to the 0v in 5v connector.
By hp persson diy how to electronics k40 laser cutter k40d laser cutter 34 comments adding a ma meter to your machine is one of the most important modifications you can do on this machine.
K40 whisperer is an alternative to the the laser draw laserdrw program that comes with the cheap chinese laser cutters available on e bay and amazon it s an excellent free program that works with a pc i use it on a cheap netbook and with a lot of messing around you can get it to work on a mac i haven t had any.
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K40 lps typically have either 1 green 6 pin connector or 3 white connectors for control located between the ac and dc connectors.
The laser switch is a push button switch that sure looks like it acts as an enable for the laser driver output.
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Remove disconnect the pot meter digital control middle wire from the in terminal and use a new wire to connect in into the controller far out most terminal as depicted with a white wire in the photo below.
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My question is how the heck to i reconcile this with the wiring diagrams that are shown for the reprap and a different laser power supply.
By hp persson diy how to diy electronics k40 laser cutter 41 comments this is a upgrade of the analog power potentiometer to give you better control over the power level.
The ma meter will read the power trough your laser tube allowing you to set the power to a safe value to prevent the laser tube from over powering and.
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Wrap the middleman board in electrical tape to insulate the connections or mount it in the k40 with electrically insulating double sided tape.
From this laser power supply strip only the in connection is.
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