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Review on 3000mw laser engraving machine, by Danuta Retmaska ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Overall it's not bad, but I expected more.

Of course, its power is not 3000 MW, as it is written in the description. The prefix "M" according to the international SI system (see GOST IEC 60027-1-2022) means "Mega", that is, 10⁶. If this device had a power of 3000 × 10⁶ W, it would burn through the table, and further down to the foundation of the building. In reality, this is 3000 milliwatts, that is, 10⁻³, which is equal to 3 watts.

Pros
  • Compact, quite functional, if you understand the limitations: work on cardboard, plastic, wood.
Cons
  • He practically cannot work on metal: more precisely, work on metal is unstable and depends on the phase of the moon. Sometimes it can engrave normally on aluminum, and sometimes it drives a laser for a long time without a visible result on the material. I don’t even put brass and steel, as well as oxidized aluminum, so as not to spoil the die in vain. Faulty software or firmware: when engraving the text specified in the program, it can burn out the first letter and ignore the rest. When the laser descends below 6 cm downwards (when engraving on a plastic card 85 × 54 mm, for example), it may start doing something incomprehensible (including going beyond the boundaries of the print object), but it will not go lower. As a result, you need to keep draft material on hand, on which to pre-run the planned print, so as not to spoil the good dies in vain.