Laser Power
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| Material | Vector | Raster | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Power | Freq | Speed | Power | DPI | ||
| Cardboards | |||||||
| Bainbridge board "172" | 45 | 60 | 500 | Slot width ~1.28mm | |||
| Card Stock 110 lb | 62 | 22 | 2500 | ||||
| Cardboard 1/8" | 30 | 60 | 500 | Conservative, try a speed of 35 or 40 | |||
| Double-layer 1/4" | 20 | 60 | 500 | ||||
| Foam Core | 60 | 90 | 2500 | ||||
| Staples Sticker Paper | 100 | 7 | 500 | Cuts through sticker but not backing | |||
| USPS thin envelope | 95 | 20 | 500 | ||||
| Wood | |||||||
| Poplar wood 1/4" | 17 | 100 | 5000 | Not sure about the frequency, seems to work at lower ones too | |||
| MakerBot wood 5 mm | 10 | 100 | 5000 | Two passes with these settings | |||
| Plastics | |||||||
| Acetal 3/16" | 6 | 100 | 500 | ||||
| Acetal 5 mm" | 3 | 100 | 500 | ||||
| Acrylic (color) 1/8" | 12 | 100 | 5000 | ||||
| Acrylic (clear) 1/4" | 6 | 100 | 5000 | Book says 4%, 6% has been working. | |||
| Acrylic (clear) 5 mm | 7 | 100 | 5000 | ||||
| HDPE 1/8" | 40 | 100 | auto | Takes about 4 passes, keeps melting together | |||
| Other | |||||||
| Chocolate | 100 | 30 | 300 | It melts. Don't cut! (via Squid Labs) | |||
| Compressed Sponge | 100 | 100 | 1000 | ||||
| Cotton (will darken) | 60 | 20 | 200 | ||||
| HP Laptop - ETCH | 100 | 23 | 2500 | Vector etch pattern, probably could have been slightly lower-power | |||
| iPhone rev 1.0 | 100 | 40 | 600 | ||||
| Mini Moleskins ( cardboard brown ) | 100 | 69 | 600 | ||||
| Nintendo DS 1st Ed. | 100 | 35 | 600 | ||||
| Quartz(?) rocks | 20 | 100 | |||||
