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At some point during the life of your laser cutter, it may be necessary to use the manual focus probe to set the correct distance between the cutting head and the material.
This probe is located in the white accessories box originally supplied with the laser cutter. This probe is often used when an auto focus probe on a laser cutter is either faulty or
damaged as it will enable you to carry on working with the machine .
A common use for the manual focus probe is when the control panel displays the “working table has reached the limit” message. This will happen when using thin materials
such as paper, textiles, etc and simply means that the upper trip switch in the laser cutter has been triggered before the auto focus probe could focus.
Step 2.
Press the up arrow on the laser control panel to raise the laser bed until the material touches the
underside of the manual probe as shown in the image above. This can be gauged easier by looking for
the points A and B to meet as shown in figure 1 on the right.
Step 1.
Remove the auto focusing probe and insert the manual focus probe
in the hole on the right hand side of the head.
Step 3.
Once this has been performed simply remove the manual probe and run your file as normal.
A
Fig 1
.
Manual Focus Probe
With the laser bed in its raised
position and the shown message
is displayed, would indicate that
you will need to use your
manual focus probe.
Pictured above is the manual focus probe.
B
