My Glowforge Plus has died, but rather than taking Glowforge up on their offer of a refurb, I found someone local selling their Pro for a very reasonable price.
On my Glowforge Plus, I was originally getting a Yellow Button of Death. Glowforge did something remotely and they got rid of the YBOD but then it would come up with “Cooling” as soon as you tried to burn/cut anything. So I took it a step further and removed the little board and cleaned it really good and now I am getting “Paused” even though I didn’t pause it, just before it starts to Burn/Cut anything. Glowforge still says they can not diagnose it remoting and that I would need to ship it back and this is when I ended up going with someone local.
So… Just to do a process of elimination, and even though I don’t think it’s the laser head… Can I put the laser head from the Pro onto the Plus? Is there anything that would prevent this from working or are there other hardware components that require to be in place for it to use/recognize the Pro Laser head? Again, I don’t think this is it, but if I can rule it out, why not.
BTW, I did find the little board on eBay for $30 and that is on it’s way just to see if that fixes it. I figured it wasn’t that bad of a price to take a chance. Next I guess in the Daughterboard , and if it still doesn’t work I guess I try and sell it to someone for parts.
Thanks in advance for everyone’s help.
-Steve
Update: As suspected, that did not resolve the issue, but at least I can say I tired and have ruled it out. Thanks to everyone that assisted
If the pro was properly transfered and working I would think it preferable to use over the plus. All else equal, I would prefer a refurb over a working used.
As the others mentioned, the printer head can be swapped between the Performance series models (Basic, Plus, or Pro). Keep in mind that the printer heads are calibrated to work with a specific printer, so you’ll want to run the printer head setup whenever it’s introduced to a different printer.
No worries. I applaud the efforts. I’ve been in similar situations with other machines and wanted to make sure I mentioned it. You’ll find so many great people on here willing to help as much as we can.
Got some help from a friend and their YouTube. It turned out to be a combination of things. The High Voltage wire had a small hole in it causing it to arc and the laser to fail.
The assumption is, when this happened, it caused a short in the Daughterboard which then needed to be replaced.
So after cleaning the small circuit board on the cooling tank, replacing the daughterboard and then repairing the high voltage wire, it is back up and running.
Thanks for your Help!!
