Longer Ray5 20W Laser Review: Unleashing The Power!

hello everyone in cyber world welcome back to another video I'm Richard and I'm Jennifer and this is our Channel we call Poor Man's DIY today's video we're going to review the longer Ray 52 watt laser okay once again we've been very blessed and uh we're now given the honor to review this uh new laser um we're going to do things a little bit different uh we as we've mentioned in the past we know some viewers have said that they're not really interested in seeing uh unboxing but the idea on our video isn't so much to introduce this laser to people who are experienced with lasers we want to show what it's like for beginners someone who's looking to see should I even buy a laser and so our review is going to be from very beginning unboxing it is it safely packed how good it's packed how easy it is to put together and then uh start using it for again primarily for beginners advanced advanced people can hopefully use this video as well but it is geared more to beginners new to the laser world so let's get started by opening up the [Music] box okay first impression uh right off the bat they've got some really good packaging material here everything seems to be in here very securely well done so I think you feel pretty comfortable about when you order this that it's not likely to be damaged uh here are the rails so let's go ahead and start unpacking this we got the laser head itself and looks like the adapter and power cord there we go oh interesting so this comes with a screen here that uh we'll have to figure out exactly how good of an image that shows up on there and the cables that come with it looks like we got a pair of safety ARs and a USB cable to connect to your computer and looks like these are some kind of a brace that will hold everything together all right okay so here's a closer look of everything uh included uh we also found some tools that were located inside um they actually have these packaged off and and each one of these packages is identified as step one through step five uh which I assume is going to uh relate to the user's installation guide the only thing right off the top I I'm missing a step two this doesn't say step two it might just be a spare belt step two maybe doesn't have Parts but uh that's the only thing I see for now we won't say that's a bad thing so let's go ahead and go uh and continue for step one we're going to use this package to assemble the frame so first we're going to slide the brackets into the slots and then we're going to tighten it with the [Music] screw originally I tightened screw by hand but now I'm going to use the wrench the frame when I pick it up is really solid and actually it's very light okay step two we're going to attach the x-axis arm and this is actually relatively easy as you can see there's two rollers on the top and one on the bottom on both sides this is what's going to be gripping the side rails so take it from there and it just rolls on now if you lay this down it's not going to be flat right now there's got to be a base that holds us up but right now the rollers on the bottom are going to be laying on the flat surface here so it is going to be a little wobbly step number three we're going to add the support [Music] feet okay now that we got the three support feed on we're going to install the control box this control box is also made so that it becomes the fourth uh foot of this to hold everything stable and it's going to go right [Music] there the last step on number three is we're going to take the isolation cylinder and place place it on the side of the frame here right in here that goes in right there and this prevents the X AIS from sliding [Music] off in the user guide it shows that the laser module right here is already installed but this doesn't happen until step five all right now we got to put on the timing belt uh we did this in advance uh the instructions are pretty good and it shows that that this has to go the timing belt goes underneath the wheel here then it goes over and there's a device here that has some teeth that the the timing belt grips onto goes back to the other side and then down on the other end now on each end of the the supports you're actually going to bolt it down using a bolt and a te uh nut and we're going to show you how to actually install that okay We Begin by putting in the t-shaped screw as they refer to it take a bolt and start to tighten it what you will notice here is as you tighten it the t-shape will start to turn and it will lock into place vertically here there we go and now gently tighten this don't overtighten it or the belt starts to twist okay next we're going to be installing these limit switches what's really convenient is they put some labels one here one's kind of hidden underneath here so you're going to have to look for it but this tells you exactly where you want to install this this also has a similar uh t-c screw as they talk about it before and we'll put that in there line it up where they tell you to and as you tighten it that tsquare will rotate and grip inside the rail and keep this nice and tight and we'll do the same for this one here kind of hard to see okay okay next we're going to go ahead and install the laser module onto the x-axis here there's a simple item here that fits into the grooves and it slides down now this slides up and down and you need to be able to keep it in place depending on the item that you're going to be cutting or engraving there are it came with two screws and these are what's used to to tighten and hold this module into place as such now to be honest with you so far of all the build I've been really impressed with it I'm not too keen on these handles it's kind of awkward for me to get my fingers in there to tighten it and loosen it uh you will find that if you're using different thickness of wood for example uh that you have to adjust the height of this and in doing so you have to get into this tiny little screw thing to adjust it um I'm used to having some larger uh knobs to be able to uh tighten this but it works fine it's just for me that's one thing I wish they would make a little bit of a bigger uh handle for this now we're going to take the cable that's part of the the main control module and at each designated location we're going to go ahead and plug in all the wires in the appropriate slots so the first slot we're going to lift up here and on the bottom the p will actually go in here if you notice there's a couple grooves on this side and this side is flat you will see that there's a couple grooves so there's only one way to put this in if you try to put it in backwards it will not fit and make sure it it make sure it's in there all the way okay next okay for this next part the cables are actually marked with a Y and an X this beam that goes across here this is the X AIS these are the Y AIS so that helps you to to know which one the the Y is going to go in over here same thing as the other plug there are two slots that are actually going to fit in here and it just plugs in like that very easily we're going to tip this up and connect this underneath here the last two connections this one has an X this goes to the xais again we're looking for the two notches there's only one way for it to fit and that's this way get in there and it snaps in and this one here is going to go into this little bit of a burger there I think I'm going to have to get some pliers to do this one so now this is all assembled we're going to go ahead and connect it to the power and test it out this is the part of the video where we stop the sound during the holidays Hawaii has lots of fireworks display that go throughout the night and throughout the day this was constantly interrupting our video the ray5 control panel is extremely well lit and easy to read using the controls you can easily set the location of the laser head for cutting and Engraving you can even connect it to Wi-Fi in our case out in the garage where connectivity is not the best we selected to use the USB connection we believe the very first thing you should engrave and cut are tests lightburn has a built-in feature that allows you to create a test grid using different speeds and power levels to see how it cuts and engraves so we're going to do that first there is an optimal distance for the laser head to be from the surface of the material being cut the ray 5 laser module has an arm that you drop down to set the distance and then return the arm to the upright position critical safety Point always always wear protective safety glasses when using lasers it only takes a fraction of a second for a laser to cause permanent damage to your eyes all right so here are the results from the actual test for cuts that I made uh using the the uh testing from lightburn um it's kind of hard to tell but you're going to see that if you use high power and slow speeds that means that the laser is just staying at one area for a longer time and for a stronger strength and what happens there is you start getting a lot of burning as opposed to a clean cut but uh as you look at this grid and you'll see different speeds some of the uh speeds that are too fast and the power is too low doesn't actually cut through and you can see on the back here that it didn't even make it through the wood itself so but using this particular test you can then see that these that actually have holes in them means that it were were able to cut through so you want to find one that is a clean cut that doesn't use as much power as as possible or as little power as possible and that doesn't have any charring on here so uh if you use something that's less than 100% that's less strain on your your laser and it should last longer in theory okay again this is just the test for the cutting and this here I think I have it upside down okay this here is the test for Engraving now I actually did the test at some really slow speeds and some higher uh power level and though it did not cut through uh the speeds were too slow and too powerful that it just it just charred the top of this you definitely don't want any of these settings now you can look at this particular chart here and you can decide which one of these colors or shadings is ideal for when you want to engrave keep in mind this test is for this particular wood if I use a different piece of wood it could give totally different uh um results so if you're going to be running any kind of test make sure you run a test for every single product that you're going to be engraving or uh or cutting now we're going to use the included sample piece of wood to engrave something simple for such a quick test that turned out nicely for the next test we are going to see if the ray five can cut through a 10 mm thick board based on the first try it did get close to cutting through the 10 mm board I increased the power level and lowered the speed but it really burned the wood after trying several different speeds and power levels it actually did a nice job cutting the [Music] wood we are now ready to test out the machine and actually make something [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay as we keep mentioned in this video this is uh primarily designed for the the beginners although we did make a very simplistic Tada product uh this is by no means uh a true picture of what's what you're capable of doing with a laser uh we just wanted to be able to show you that right out the box how you set things up and we wanted to test uh how well this particular laser worked and we wanted to show you that you can make something as simple as this very quickly and once it was done Jennifer added a little bit of her own color touch to it and flavor to make it even nicer so uh we're going to go ahead and get into the final conclusion and tell you what we think about this okay so in conclusion um overall I was really thrilled uh with this particular laser uh I like the power that it had and the ability to cut through the 10 mm uh board uh I now have some ideas of things that I'd like to try that I've never done on anything that thick uh we'll see how things go with that um overall uh I this is definitely a recommended uh uh product for us that uh we are happy that we have uh I was it was um a little bit confusing on the installation instructions uh that some of the pictures didn't quite line up to what we had in front of us I don't know if that was the picture's fault or is my fault for not being able to understand what was going on on the instructions if there were any kind of recommendation that I would make I would make to the company and suggest that maybe they can um uh assemble some of this together uh at the factory and make a larger box I realize it'll be a little more uh expensive to ship a larger box to to customers but if it's pre assembled a little bit more I think a beginner for example might uh might find it easier to be able to take it out of the box and get ready right away rather than have go through all the steps of putting it together since we're familiar with how lasers work we understand how the final result is going to need to look it it made a little bit easier for us but I just worry about uh especially the belt that had to be added was a little bit confusing even for us on how it had to be installed overall it it took less than an hour to assemble so it wasn't a bad thing but if we're if we're looking at at uh trying to get this for a beginner it might take a few extra minutes and figure it out or a beginner might actually be smarter than me and be able to get this whole thing done in in just a matter of minutes so anyhow we are very pleased with this thing and it is definitely a two thumbs up yay from us we really like to thank longer for sending us a r 5 20 W laser for review next week's video we're going to show you how we built a workbench for our garage so until then byebye byebye [Music]

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Length: 18min 16sec (1096 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 07 2024