joe
November 9, 2018, 8:25pm
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I know you don’t want anyone to tell you to search the forum. So I did that for you.
Here’s the announcment that introduced Full Power.
This is your regularly scheduled July update… earlier than usual, because we have an abundance of awesome to share.
Shipments have started (here’s the update we emailed you about it ). We’re hard at work making every Glowforge printer better by improving our software as shipments are rolling off the line.
One thing we’ve heard from you is that it’s helpful to hear about software changes that we make. For that reason, we’ve created a new page called Latest Improvements (https://glowforge.com/l…
And some clarifications that Dan made.
The power supply operates differently between precision mode and full power mode, so you’ll see a big change between 99 and 100 (which is why I shared the UI sneak peek - the current UI is obsolete and will be confusing). I’m not going to share more details because it took our physicists a long time to make this work and I don’t want to deprive scientists working elsewhere of the joy of discovery.
Just to chime in - this is a great answer.
1-100 gives you precision power mode, which is much more stable - helpful for delicate cuts and scores. Full power is more than 100, but much less than your tube is capable of, so it can be used without reducing your expected tube life at all.
And for completeness, here’s the search I did.https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=full%20power%20user%3Adan
To summarize, precision power is very stable and scalable. For Full Power, they do… something and deliver significantly more power. They have not said what that something is, and have not said how much of an increase it is.
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