About accelerations, I reached out to Creality and was told that the X and Y acceleration settings are factory defaults and should not be changed. They are set to 500 not 1000 as Lightburn had reported. So the Epilog does 98 times faster acceleration not 49 times :)
I have cut through 1/2" oak with a 10w laser falcon. You just need to go slow and take a bunch of passes with a very deep focus. Air assist and a honeycomb table also help.
I did some tests I didn't show with the engraving speed slowed down to about 40% and it didn't change the appearance much. Maybe lower still might have helped.
For the price of the Epilog, you could buy 68 Falcons and spend ~13 seconds reloading each engraver. In one 8 hour shift, one person could produce ~2176 units. You'd have to subtract all the time to setup, tables, and space so many Falcons would take up. You'd also have a lot of waste heat to deal with. For an etsy store, this would be overkill. Probably better to have two or three Falcons and spend down time managing orders, shipping, or coming up with new products. The cost to maintain Falcons in a production environment is probably the main detractor for a Falcon--but it really comes down to how many products you could produce before a Falcon fails along with how much money each product is sold for.
Yeah I don't think either of these is really ideal for an Etsy store. Something a lot faster than the Creality but still a cheap diode laser would be fine if all you need to do is engrave things. You can also get galvo lasers with tiny work areas that engrave things super fast. If you need to actually cut wood or acrylic with the laser then more powerful CO2 lasers are definitely the correct choice as they will be far faster. For
That's possible. Another weird thing I noticed was the Epilog software has a "frequency" control that shows up for the vector outline setting but it's greyed out for the engraving setting, I wonder if that was also partly to blame? The default frequency may have been bad for Bamboo? No other laser cutter I've used before has a frequency setting though. I've used CO2 lasers for cutting many many times over the years but I very rarely have artistic or engraving uses.
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About accelerations, I reached out to Creality and was told that the X and Y acceleration settings are factory defaults and should not be changed. They are set to 500 not 1000 as Lightburn had reported. So the Epilog does 98 times faster acceleration not 49 times :)
bamboo cutting boards are also supper inconsistant due to being made of several shoots
I have cut through 1/2" oak with a 10w laser falcon. You just need to go slow and take a bunch of passes with a very deep focus. Air assist and a honeycomb table also help.
Lower speed will make it darker, you'll just have to turn the power way down. Try the speed/power grid, and you'll see that.
I did some tests I didn't show with the engraving speed slowed down to about 40% and it didn't change the appearance much. Maybe lower still might have helped.
For the price of the Epilog, you could buy 68 Falcons and spend ~13 seconds reloading each engraver. In one 8 hour shift, one person could produce ~2176 units. You'd have to subtract all the time to setup, tables, and space so many Falcons would take up. You'd also have a lot of waste heat to deal with. For an etsy store, this would be overkill. Probably better to have two or three Falcons and spend down time managing orders, shipping, or coming up with new products. The cost to maintain Falcons in a production environment is probably the main detractor for a Falcon--but it really comes down to how many products you could produce before a Falcon fails along with how much money each product is sold for.
Yeah I don't think either of these is really ideal for an Etsy store. Something a lot faster than the Creality but still a cheap diode laser would be fine if all you need to do is engrave things. You can also get galvo lasers with tiny work areas that engrave things super fast. If you need to actually cut wood or acrylic with the laser then more powerful CO2 lasers are definitely the correct choice as they will be far faster. For
The outline was probably moving slower, and that's why it was darker.
That's possible. Another weird thing I noticed was the Epilog software has a "frequency" control that shows up for the vector outline setting but it's greyed out for the engraving setting, I wonder if that was also partly to blame? The default frequency may have been bad for Bamboo? No other laser cutter I've used before has a frequency setting though. I've used CO2 lasers for cutting many many times over the years but I very rarely have artistic or engraving uses.
@@JustCuzRobotics usually the power setting is pwm. That might be the frequency for that.
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