{"id":1365,"date":"2018-09-04T05:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.pratt.edu\/open-source\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2018-09-04T05:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:04:51","slug":"intelligent-co2-laser-cutter-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent CO2 Laser Cutter Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really didn&#8217;t like using a fountain pump for a laser water supply. I&#8217;ve had too many fail in water fountains to trust one to a CO2 laser. I had some diaphragm pumps left from another project. They are the type normally used for RV sinks or marine wash down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/laser%20v1\/IMG_1347.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some had a pressure switch so I chose one that didn&#8217;t. After all the goal here is flow not pressure. I used a 24V pump but only run it on 12V&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I added a flow sensor and a simple PIC microcontroller to shut the laser if the flow stops for any reason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/laser%20v1\/IMG_1349.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice part is I cant even test fire the laser until the pump is running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I added a filter to keep the water clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/IMG_1313.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really didn&#8217;t like using a fountain pump for a laser water supply. I&#8217;ve had too many fail in water fountains to trust one to a CO2 laser. I had some diaphragm pumps left from another project. They are the type normally used for RV sinks or marine wash down. Some had a pressure switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k40-co2-laser","category-technology","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}