04/16/2026
✨️ Laser Update!✨️
Is my laser working? Not working?!?! Working again? Fixed?!?!
It actually works now 😍
So what has been going on?!?!
My machine was no longer cooling the laser tube down. It has to circulate water through the laser tube to keep the machine a low enough temperature to prevent it from catching fire, as it's literally....fire 🙃
In a nutshell
🥜 I had a water leak caused by a perfectly severed bolt which was super random - or so I thought (likely the move, based on all the other issues)
🥜 This leak lasted approx 4 months before I realized as the water was pooling inside the bottom of the machine unbeknownst to me
🥜 That 4 ish months of running the laser without proper cooling/water causing multiple other things to burn out
🥜 Flow Sensor
🥜 Water Pump
So, we fixed all these things that interconnected to one another. MEANWHILE......
🥜 AI/Chat GPT discovered burnt wires running to the capacitor, only because I was sending photos to help me figure this disaster out
🥜I fixed the capacitor (Go me, didn't know what that was, let alone how to rewire one, OR REWIRE ANYTHING 😂)
🥜The laaer proceeds to overheat yet again
🥜Insert appropriate rage
🥜Back to chat I go, high ho.
🥜Circling back to the water side of things....it looks to be the refrigerant is leaking from the water chiller. Why? Because of a crack (Hi, moving🤦♀️)
COOL....😂
🥜Decided after all the research I was gonna invest in an external chiller instead of replacing my original one.
🥜Obviously it did not come with the right parts but at this point I'm a certified technician 👌
'Darth Laser is back.
Back again.