It’s difficult to estimate how often the filter cartridge needs to be replaced because it depends not just on how much you use it but on the material you use. Hardwoods aren’t very taxing but plywood might be, depending entirely on the glue (which is usually hard to figure out). It’s just going to vary a great deal, with light users pushing past a year between changes, and heavy users who are cutting nonstop turning them over as often as every month or so. We’re working on filter pricing, but we expect it’s going to come in under $250.
I hate to point fingers elsewhere, but we looked for other laser filter manufacturers’ filter life estimates, and can’t find them either, so apparently we’re not alone in finding it difficult to put numbers to it.
Hey Dan & team
Will there be some sort of indicator to notify us when the filter needs to be changed? Either locally with an LED or in the cloud/app? Or would we just need to “eyeball it”?
No eyeballs. : ) We’ll be able to notify you when the filter’s in need of replacing via the cloud service. We’ll also look at using the local LED for that, too.
From what I’ve seen here on the forum @karaelena it seems it is 4" in diameter or similar to a dryer hose. @dan mentioned in one of the threads that you could purchase it at Home Depot for $10
All this talk about the air going out of the GF, but where does it go in - is there a port for the air going into the GF? It’s occurred to me that the GF is essentially a $2,000 vacuum hose attachment - with an ignition source inside - woo-hoo!
Thanks @rpegg. From what I saw at CES, the water cooling system is entirely on the left side of the GF, so the air inlets should then be on the right side. I saw no inlet vents as it sat on the table, so are they underneath? - are there any pictures of the bottom of a GF?
I’m thinking about constructing a simple filter for the air going into the GF, as I can’t think of any positive outcomes from dust accumulating inside the laser cutter, given the laser beams, burning materials and high voltages. My PC cases get pretty dusty inside, and their fans run considerably lower cfm than I expect the GF does.
I think I posted one on the forum a while ago (when Xabbess was asking about the arrangement of the feet on the underside) but I may be misremembering.
