Karl, a friend of me ordered one. http://www.lionlasers.nl/lasers.htm is the Dutch company importing them, he ordered direct from China - I don't have the web address of the Chinese company right now - have to with my friend. Price in the Netherlands 7800 EUR, direct from China (plus 2 extra laser tubes, plus 2 different 4th axis setups 3500 EUR, shipping not included).
He has seen the Machine in the Netherlands, it contains standard micro-step drivers (like this one http://www.stappenmotor.nl/Datasheets/microstapdrivers%20info/MSD-50-5.6.htm). His machine has not arrived yet so I have to do this from what we know right now from emails with the chinese company. Interfacing of the stepper motors and end-switches is done via parport, laser power is controlled through some USB interface + parport signal - all connected to a windoze app. It should not be that difficult to interface to EMC from a hardware point of view - XYZ and laser on/off is all parport. But the software does more than just contour marking or cutting. It also controls the machine as a kind of a matrix laser printer where the laser just scans the whole surface and turns the laser on/off to 'print'. The silly thing is that even the expensive Trotec machines use this type of printing-engraving. Difference is that they use a real servo drive with brushless servo motors. We have been told that the (cheap) chinese laser tubes can have problems (gass leakage) and that there is a fair chance that a tube is not working when it arrives. More expensive tubes can be refilled with CO2 making them operational again, we are not sure about these chinese ones. So we decided to order a few extra tubes, one of them should be OK when it arrives ... I don't know if it is a kit or a complete machine - that info has to wait until the thing actually arrives. Exhaust system is a problem. There are some tubes and fans to suck the dirt out of the machine. Any filter (dust particle and/or active carbon filter to remove hazardous gasses) is _not_ included. More info will follow when the machine is installed .Sorry, my friend is not using Linux, he'll use the Windoze stuff all the way :-( Rob Karl Schmidt wrote: > There are several Chines systems (Jcut) - less than $4000 BUT - they use > proprietary windoze stuff > and a dongle - no Linux support. Anyone know of something similar that is > Linux based? ( I no longer > run ANY Windoze systems) > > (It has occurred to me that the internal controller might be EMC in their > firmware...) > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/CO2-Laser-Engraver-laser-engraving-machine-laser-cutter_W0QQitemZ110411431386QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b508bdda > > Be aware that if you order it from China - it is sort of a kit - I've heard > of them new and not > working - there is supposed to be a guy in Canada that sells them assembled > and working. > > Anyone here working on such things? Or has tied these into EMC? OR links that > I haven't found? > > The core hardware - a CO2 LASER and a light weight X-Y - is not expensive - > safety interlocks - > tying it all together, exhaust systems is the hitch. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
