I broke my K40 and can't find parts (sorry long post)
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:27 pm
Hello all,
I recently found this website and already enjoying the plethora of support and knowledge this forum has presented me. I have a K40 modified 40W laser with a newer control board and USB (uses LaserDrw 2.013). I have stepped on every landmine imaginable in the two months that I have owned this laser and now have broken it good! Here's just a hint of what I've done horribly wrong to this thing, but first let me explain where I am now:
Somehow I broke what appears to be a sensor or limiter for the x axis. There is a small circuit board under the gantry of this laser that has a sensor, the carriage unit has a metal prong that sticks out. Apparently when the sensor registers something in it's eye it stops the west movement (towards 0) and cuts off that motor. The machine literally goes towards coord 0.0 and stops the Y axis when the sensor is tripped but, because of the broken sensor under the gantry, the machine never reaches it's 0 location on the x axis and continues to stutter until you just turn the machine off. Also, sometime during this process WInXP/LaserDRW throws an error that it cannot identify the machine error ID:01
The big issues I am having:
1) I cannot find a replacement sensor on this site, other sites, eBay, or Google. I have yet to contact the seller I bought the unit from on eBay for help and will be doing so after this post.
2) I don't have the needed money for the full DSP upgrade (preferred option) for this unit or a replacement unit to continue to run my custom acrylic token business.
3) I'm behind on a couple large orders that are pay upon delivery for my tokens, so the business is at a standstill.
If anyone has any helpful ideas or a place to find parts it would be GREATLY appreciated. The Controller board that I have in the machine is the listed as 6C6879-Laser-M2.
I currently have to build my tokens in Corel X6, convert down to CorelDraw/Photo 12 then move my items over to the WinsealXP program because the CorelDraw Plugin was never shipped or never worked, could also use help with this. I also appear to have a setting for engrave (carve 40% into the material) or cut straight through, I don't seem to have anything in between so I must be doing something horribly wrong here too.
So far, in 2 months, I've blown up a focus crystal, installed a reflecting mirror backwards, burnt the crap out of my hand during an optics alignment, somehow got enough water into my airpump that the air nozzle was sputtering like a faucet. I think I've pretty much hit every landmine that I could have at this point. I will continue to read through these forums and discussions, and have just recently bought and installed a replacement head for the K40 with an 18~20 50.08HQ focus laser. I got everything installed and ran the laser for about 4 hours today before these whole shenanigans started. I already have a bucket list of must haves from this site and greatly appreciate everything that everyone has posted here.
thanks again in advance,
Brian Mead
CEO
Warped Mind Games, LLC
(like us Facebook)
I recently found this website and already enjoying the plethora of support and knowledge this forum has presented me. I have a K40 modified 40W laser with a newer control board and USB (uses LaserDrw 2.013). I have stepped on every landmine imaginable in the two months that I have owned this laser and now have broken it good! Here's just a hint of what I've done horribly wrong to this thing, but first let me explain where I am now:
Somehow I broke what appears to be a sensor or limiter for the x axis. There is a small circuit board under the gantry of this laser that has a sensor, the carriage unit has a metal prong that sticks out. Apparently when the sensor registers something in it's eye it stops the west movement (towards 0) and cuts off that motor. The machine literally goes towards coord 0.0 and stops the Y axis when the sensor is tripped but, because of the broken sensor under the gantry, the machine never reaches it's 0 location on the x axis and continues to stutter until you just turn the machine off. Also, sometime during this process WInXP/LaserDRW throws an error that it cannot identify the machine error ID:01
The big issues I am having:
1) I cannot find a replacement sensor on this site, other sites, eBay, or Google. I have yet to contact the seller I bought the unit from on eBay for help and will be doing so after this post.
2) I don't have the needed money for the full DSP upgrade (preferred option) for this unit or a replacement unit to continue to run my custom acrylic token business.
3) I'm behind on a couple large orders that are pay upon delivery for my tokens, so the business is at a standstill.
If anyone has any helpful ideas or a place to find parts it would be GREATLY appreciated. The Controller board that I have in the machine is the listed as 6C6879-Laser-M2.
I currently have to build my tokens in Corel X6, convert down to CorelDraw/Photo 12 then move my items over to the WinsealXP program because the CorelDraw Plugin was never shipped or never worked, could also use help with this. I also appear to have a setting for engrave (carve 40% into the material) or cut straight through, I don't seem to have anything in between so I must be doing something horribly wrong here too.
So far, in 2 months, I've blown up a focus crystal, installed a reflecting mirror backwards, burnt the crap out of my hand during an optics alignment, somehow got enough water into my airpump that the air nozzle was sputtering like a faucet. I think I've pretty much hit every landmine that I could have at this point. I will continue to read through these forums and discussions, and have just recently bought and installed a replacement head for the K40 with an 18~20 50.08HQ focus laser. I got everything installed and ran the laser for about 4 hours today before these whole shenanigans started. I already have a bucket list of must haves from this site and greatly appreciate everything that everyone has posted here.
thanks again in advance,
Brian Mead
CEO
Warped Mind Games, LLC
(like us Facebook)