Page 1: ...your parts to engraving The PLH3D engraving laser head allows you to engrave or cut your designs in a wide variety of materials such as wood plastic rubber foam cardboard leather and many more Bill of...
Page 2: ...swap X Carve s spindle and replace it with a laser for the laser engraving tasks It is really easy to do and takes almost no time at all By doing so you will minimize the risk of dust getting into yo...
Page 3: ...ere http easel inventables com projects 187_79JZ3KFSCd5ZsAub4A Here s how the laser head looks with the mount To mount the laser head in the spindle holder loosen 3 spindle clamp screws and take the s...
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Page 5: ...reen and white wires are going to X Controller Recommended wiring Laser Head 4 core wire Brown 12V Red Green Ground Black Yellow Analog PWM Ground White White Analog PWM In Green Wire up the power sup...
Page 6: ...Connect green and white wires from the 4 core wire to the X Controller Green wire goes to Spindle PWM and white wire goes to GND...
Page 7: ...with PLH3D laser head The nozzle will direct the air stream much better in cases where the laser head is position more than 50 mm from material surface Here s how the nozzle looks like Nozzle attache...
Page 8: ...r you ll have to either use the mount described Getting started chapter of this guide or cut another one that fits the nozzle only just like the one on picture below Easel project for this mount can b...
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Page 10: ...PWM signal has to be enabled There is few ways to do that but we will focus on the most user friendly one Go to Easel s setup http easel inventables com setup and choose the correct settings for your...
Page 11: ...u may use Easel Universal Gcode Sender or Chillipeppr to send it to your X Carve First engraving Finally it s time to fire up the laser and engrave something G Code commands to operate the laser are 1...
Page 12: ...G Code for this logo is available here LINK to PLH3D_logo g Here s the result on scrap piece of MDF...
Page 13: ...Congratulations...
Page 14: ...with the laser head and want to swap it with the spindle remember to unplug the Spindle PWM connector from X Controller to avoid shorts Safety Note Looking at the laser beam may irreversibly damage y...
