probably, but I highly doubt anyone will be holding their head in the path of the beam for any length of time. a reflective flash shouldnt be of concern to anyone unless they wear those super thin glasses haha
either way, I have a few pairs of laser goggles here just in case im workin with the old chinese laser
If youâre worried about extremely bright flare, despite the existing shielded cover on the Glowforge, you can always pick up some welderâs glass off Amazon for fairly cheap and keep it near the forge.
You can get either just a square sheet, or heck⌠get some circular lenses and cut yourself some frames on the forge!
Weâre doing a great deal of work on safety profiling the Pro that may include some advice around glasses to make compliance easier for you. If you havenât purchased glasses already, I would hold off until you read the Pro manual (which will be available when we start shipping production units of the Pro). (Sorry to be a bit vague here - I canât give safety advice until itâs 100% locked in).
If you already have CO2 laser rated glasses, though, those should work fine.
Thatâs great to hear, Dan. I actually already do have some rated goggles, so I jumped the gun in that respect.
I was more thinking of the comments people had with lasing items (rock? I think?), which would light up a very bright hotspot that could not be comfortably viewed⌠to make it easier to shield from bright lights with case closed, not specifically CO2 wavelength.
Is there a way to test fire the laser of a Glowforge? E.g. a mode where pressing the button energises it like I have seen people do with the Chinese machines. I am guessing not.
It may only be a US thing, but back when AOL was spamming the world with round disks you could deposit your money for a fixed length of time and earn interest on it. CD was short for certificate of deposit. Itâs possible at some point in the future interest rates will rise high enough to make them popular again.
Presumably you have to punch a pinhole through your paper CD and shine it against a blank index card (another prehistoric artifact) like we did in elementary school to see the eclipse.
I guess my question is, why would you want to? As I understand it the only reason to do it with the Chinese lasers is for some sort of calibration, right?
Yes, which we might need to do when replacing tubes ourselves. Or for diagnosing faults like @Xabbess had. Or for experimenting as @takitus proposed above.
Agreed. Once my Roomba started acting up, I discovered its diagnostic mode and I could make it do all sorts of crazy things, like spin just one wheel at a time.
And measuring the amperage output of the power supply without running and entire job, as part of the diagnosis. Which, come to think of it⌠with the Glowforge âminimalistâ approach to user interface, Iâm not sure I want to trust whatever on-board electronic measurement they have in place without some way to correlate it to my own. I suppose they just measure it and upload it to the GlowCloud for someone to make sense of it, anyways.