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by jasonmartindale
Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:36 am
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: LS6840 focus lights not working, yet laser firing ??
Replies: 4
Views: 4723

Re: LS6840 focus lights not working, yet laser firing ??

oh goodness, how embarassing :oops:
they were just dirty
a kiddie had done far more burnishing of ply than we had previously done.....
sorry for wasting your time,and thank you!!!
by jasonmartindale
Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:13 am
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: LS6840 focus lights not working, yet laser firing ??
Replies: 4
Views: 4723

Re: LS6840 focus lights not working, yet laser firing ??

thank you, Dave are they two seperate lasers? because they have both gone at exactly the same time i have ruled out the clogging aspect... i have made a guage of sorts, but obviously this is awkward in comparisson to using the lights, and i checked wires but can't see any obvious issue, the machine ...
by jasonmartindale
Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:55 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: LS6840 focus lights not working, yet laser firing ??
Replies: 4
Views: 4723

LS6840 focus lights not working, yet laser firing ??

please help? i have a poorly LS6840, you know the lights that you use to focus the laser using the z arrows (i think these are smaller powered lasers, or are they leds?); they aren't working, yet the rest of the machine seems to be working fine, any advice muchly appreiciated, i have lots of classes...
by jasonmartindale
Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:06 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: LS6840 laser head moving but not firing, please help?
Replies: 5
Views: 6613

Re: LS6840 laser head moving but not firing, please help?

i think i know what has happened; if you lower the power the corner power also is lowered if you raise the power the corner power is not automatically raised i suspect a user has accidentally put in a power of 3, meaning to put 3 as the speed so the corner power goes down to 3 but when the mistake h...
by jasonmartindale
Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:55 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: LS6840 laser head moving but not firing, please help?
Replies: 5
Views: 6613

Re: LS6840 laser head moving but not firing, please help?

that was a quick answer phillydee, thank you! you have solved both issues for me! power was 98 speed 5 however somehow the corner power had been altered to 3, and whilst i had been given quick advice that the corner power needs to always be the same as the power (...) somehow i managed to only get a...
by jasonmartindale
Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:49 pm
Forum: Help or advice required please
Topic: LS6840 laser head moving but not firing, please help?
Replies: 5
Views: 6613

LS6840 laser head moving but not firing, please help?

Hi, we love our laser cutter, it is so useful, it's also the most temperamental, a bit like my wife.... For a while we have noticed that sometimes the laser head tracks the correct path but the laser doesn't fire the laser indicator light glows but is perhaps not as bright as usual if we press the l...