Light Pads are handy

[lairdknox]

@johnwills

You guys are costing me money again! I just looked in my Amazon wish list to see what light box I had put in there a year or two ago. And there is currently a “lightning deal” to save $30 so I jumped.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DNV7C72/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=L2P1KV3BE488&coliid=IN1CKTEGUHSQ9

LOL Wut?

[jrnelson]

the clear advantage of mains power vs batteries, of course. gotta hustle where you may…

[lairdknox]

@jrnelson

the clear advantage of mains power vs batteries, of course. gotta hustle where you may…

Look closer…

So you plug it into a 12V source and it outputs a fluctuating 110V - 220V?

Or does the pad create power so you can supply your house with 110?

[cmreeder]

@rubbersoul79

I have a ton of things to share that I have learned through doing and I bet other users do to that could warrant it’s own category so the advice isn’t simply lost in a project post.

Please feel free to add things to this post:

Tips For the Inexperienced

Alright friends, As @Jules suggested, I am going to start a list of useful tips for the inexperienced. Please add things that might be common knowledge to those who are comfortable with lasers but that might be big news to someone who is new. We were crediting the folks who generated the tip; but discourse only allows you to mention ten members. General Tips dan: You want to go the fastest you can at the highest power possible to have clean edges. Accessories to invest in Digital Calip…

It isn’t a category; but if someone searches for “tips” it should come up.

[jrnelson]

ahaha clearly i glanced over that part without paying much attention, it’s probably a funny translation artifact

[johnwills]

Yeah, I’d go with translation error. Huion is a Chinese company. I have a drawing tablet from them and saw a few other quirky translations in its manual.

[dan]

@rubbersoul79

I have a ton of things to share that I have learned through doing and I bet other users do to that could warrant it’s own category so the advice isn’t simply lost in a project post.

Great suggestion. We’ll probably have a big recategoryshufflizing around production shipping time so we keep the # of categories small and well defined. And +1 to the idea of contacting @jules, who is organizing some glowfolk-to-glowfolk help.

[PlGHEADED]

@dan

We’ll probably have a big recategoryshufflizing around production shipping time

I’m so looking forward to the “Gallery” category once units are shipping. Possibly it’s own header on the Home page rather than in the forum.

[PrintToLaser]

I had started a thread Voice of Experience but it didn’t go very far.

[jamesdhatch]

@rubbersoul79

I would love to see a category for Tips, Tricks and Recommendations or something like that. I have a ton of things to share that I have learned through doing and I bet other users do to that could warrant it’s own category so the advice isn’t simply lost in a project post.

There is a wiki thread & section for this now. A few of us have contributed some tips to the tip doc. If I find the link I’ll add it to this post.

Edit: I see it linked above. “Tips for the inexperienced” What’s nice about it being a Wiki is you can update it for everyone else’s benefit. So grab your tip bag and start unloading on that thread!

[jrnelson]

man, me too.

[Ryan.M]

Brilliant

[smcgathyfay]

@jbv

Easy fix: some 1/8" material sitting on the desk under the thing. More intensive fix: a couple more 1/8" adhesive rubber feet.

Lol nice…your kingdom for little 1/8" rubber feet…
I have an eastern facing glass door at my office…I generally do my “light table” work taped up on it in the mornings…lmao.
But I have LEDs as well as light difusing acrylic I guess I could put something together, but where’s the challenge in that…

[jbv]

using a window works great if you don’t have a lightbox (or, ahem, if your lightbox has become a table surface and you can’t be bothered to move everything off of it). If your window is ground level and faces the parking lot you can pull a vehicle up and use the headlights as backlighting at night.

[Jules]

@jbv

(or, ahem, if your lightbox has become a table surface and you can’t be bothered to move everything off of it).

+1

[smcgathyfay]

@jbv

If your window is ground level and faces the parking lot you can pull a vehicle up and use the headlights as backlighting at night

Ha ha it is…never thought of that one…

[johnwills]

I had thought about building a light table into one end of my layout table but expected it would be buried too often. My theory is a portable light pad will live on a shelf under the layout table and only come out when I’m using it. It should arrive tomorrow. I give it until next Friday to get buried.

[jamesdhatch]

@johnwills

I give it until next Friday to get buried.

One advantage of using a computer monitor (with a white blank “picture” displayed) is it never gets buried or used as a horizontal storage surface

[tbelhumer]

Don’t think I could justify spending time and money making a light table when there’s this…

19" LED Ultra Thin LED Animation Drawing Stencil Board Table Light Box Tattoo Tracing Pad W/Adapter - http://go.shr.lc/2oH91yR

[Hirudin]

Sorry, didn’t read the whole thread, just wanted to pass this along for anyone interested in a low-cost light pad.

Saw this over on the Slickdeals forum… (oops, looks like the very good deal is over and it’s now $25 - still pretty cheap I guess)
https://slickdeals.net/f/10034760-light-up-tracing-pad-blue-by-crayola-11-77-jet-amazon

And here’s a review overview of one…

Star Wars Light-Up Tracing Pad from Crayola