Welcome @willweyer to the forum. Perhaps you have been reading all along, but it’s good to have a post from you and resurrecting an old topic.
Yes, I’ve been an eager news gatherer on the forums looking at what people are planning, have done and are looking to do. It’s going to be a blast having a well thought out tool that can bring ideas into real tangible things!
Just wondering if powering down so quickly will disturb the force “as we say” in either the powersupply or lasertube…just sayin.
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It may. But if there is a fire in the machine and the detector goes off. House > Glowforge. Just sayin.
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HAHAHA yeah trudat…wasn’t using my miniscule brain…hahaha
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We’ve been trying to switch from “graceful shutdown” to “just turn it off” around the office to be sure there aren’t any undiscovered problems there - it should be pretty robust to sudden power loss.
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Dan…would having a UPS hookup in case of blackout or brownout help ? Obviously not in the case of a fire, but added safety?
That would have to be a pretty big/serious APC/UPS.
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oh ok I was thinking the kind you hook to a computer.
Pretty sure @dan said that the peak wattage is about 800W. Though you can get APC/UPS can handle that for the desktop world. But the uptime will be short. If you are talking about if you get a power blip (under 1~2mins) a 1100W unit maybe okay. Anything longer than 4~5 mins you’ll need something larger.
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Merci I didn’t have the money anyhoo…lol
But I will keep this in mind.
I suspect you wouldn’t want to do this for the same reason they tell you not to plug a laser printer into it.
As I recall it’s the power draw into the fuser not the laser.
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ihermit thank you
if you are looking for power thrashing put it on a wall timer on and off every 5 min enough time for it to boot up and then off it goes again etc…
Actually we run on a UPS sometimes - we once ran half an hour+ on it. Bear in mind that it only consumes full power when the laser is actually active and full power, which is rarely more than a few minutes at a time.
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Thank you
How has this been progressing?
Is it being done in tandem or like how CentOS is done, the software will be sanitized after the 1.0 release of Glowforge Cloud?
How has the self-hosted server idea been progressing? Could I run it off a VM, and if so, what OS are we looking at? I have a small homelab that I’d love to use for this and I’d like to get started on setting up a box for it.
Any additional details would be truly appreciated!
Thanks,
Kevin
I imagine it hasn’t at all since very few people have Glowforges. Once a developer gets one and has access to the firmware, then that person (or likely a group of people) can start trying to write their own software. I’m guessing 1-2 years from launch.
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I agree. Honestly it isn’t high on my priority list. I prefer that Glowforge simply succeeds and I use their software. But It is a nice backup.
I wouldn’t expect to see anyone messing with it until warranty’s start to expire.
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