Remember, the cloud service knows exactly how many watts are going in when. It sends a cooling plan at the same time as the motion plan.
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I think that’s fair for the laser cooling portion, though what about the base? I could see an issue where a material may be smokier than expected, and I’d appreciate the ability to turn things up a bit (t-t-t-t-turbo mode) until the 'forge had finished cutting. I mean I dunno what sort of sensors you’re putting in to monitor air quality or smoke, or what camera wizardry. But like you, I know how these things can smell sometimes, and it would be great to be able to mitigate that.
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Would it be possible to add an additional fan to ducting downstream of the Glowforge like a bathroom extraction fan for example? Or would that interfere with the GlowforgeGlowforge operation?
Yes - if you’re running the ductwork a long way, you can use a booster fan.
@jrnelson we have some cool stuff in mind for managing this… first things first though.
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Will there be an option to bypass the filter on certain jobs if we have the ability for venting, but also have the filter unit?
Awesome. I figured it was around here somewhere. Just getting used to the searching.
Just to piggyback on the noise topic here- There are a few bedrooms not to far from the room the laser will sit. My 3d Printer doesn’t wake anyone up but based on what Dan mentioned and some of the videos, I’m thinking I will try and reduce the sound a bit by placing the laser in a smaller nook area of the room and surrounding that small space with some type of eggcrate foam or other sound deadening material. Anyone have any recomendations as to what works and or what might be affordable?
empty egg cartons are the traditional cheap method for amateur recording booths, not as effective as fancy foam panels but a lot more affordable if you eat eggs anyway. Start saving them up now!
Honestly, just having a barrier of any kind will likely reduce the noise level a fair amount. Even hanging something like a couple of thick quilts would probably help out, and would be easily removable / modifiable later on.
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Just be sure you don’t get foam under the Glowforge as the air intakes are down there. Ditto with jamming foam close around the right hand side.
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Good to know… I’m thinking more along walls of the shop just to reduce the sound from bouncing around as my shop walls are fairly bare… aside from the 
GlowForge posters that I would hate to cover up 
@Dan, it seems that the filter unit’s development is lagging somewhat in the effort to get the Glowforge itself up to snuff. This is understandable, but some of us don’t have a way to vent one from where we plan to put it, so for those of us in that situation that ordered a unit with filter fairly early in the presale period, is there a chance that we will need to find a way to vent it for some period of time before we get the filter? Or do you expect that the test time for the filter will be so short it won’t impact delivery time?
We’re going to ship GF units the day they’re ready, and that will likely be before the filters are ready - a day before or a month before, I don’t know yet. So that depends on your degree of patience. : )
We definitely won’t be leaving the Glowforge in the box while we wait for the filter, so a plan b is in order, it would seem. 
@dan you said “Just be sure you don’t get foam under the Glowforge as the air intakes are down there.” I’m planning on having my Glowforge (w/filter) on a table top by my desk. Is that kosher? As an apartment dweller, I’d love to have a stealth setting, too – slower cutting, perhaps, in exchange for lower temperatures and less noise. If that’s an option…
Definitely something that’s in the feature hopper.
Having it sit on a flat, rigid surface is exactly what it’s designed for. Just don’t put it on your… couch? Bed? Nothing soft.
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Air intake: or as the Glowforge mascot thread would say, “gills”.
But does the Cloud know the ambient room temperature that any individual GF unit is operating in? Depending upon room conditions & time of year, I can easily envision individual temperature variations of 40+ degrees (Fahrenheit). I would imagine that such variances would create vastly different cooling profiles???
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