Today after painfully removing all the resin formlabs put in the laser to prohibit opening, I (carefully) disassembled my form1+ Laser.
I found out it’s not containing the TO18 Laser everybody is talking about. But a much smaller TO38 Laser.
On aliexpress I bought a pair of spare lasers from Sony and Nichia.
They will arrive within a couple of weeks.
Hopefully they work right of the shelf, otherwise I will investigate how to calibrate the lasers.
Did anybody ever attempt this? or care to help if needed?
Unless I am mistaken, no one has been able to calibrate the laser or galvo’s besides Formlabs. One would need special tools and the software to go along with them.
If you figure out how to do this I gather many will want to know what you did.
Hmmm. I’ve had 2 Form 1+ printer, which I bought used. The first one I bought in 2016, and it appeared to have been a Form 1, that had been updated to Form 1+. It had the black housing laser. I never opened the laser so I don’t know what type of diode it had.
The current one, I bought used last year around April or May, and according to the previous owner, it was just about a year old at the time, so it was made in 2016. This is the one I opened the laser housing on, and it has a TO18 in it.
I wonder if FormLabs has more than one vendor for the laser, and they use them interchangeably?
I will have to open my form 1+ and change my laser so could you help in case of you have make some pictures and or movie
And where did you buy your laser ?
after changing did you have some problems for calibration did you need to do ?
thanks