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Endurance lasers work with all types of CNC machines: JFT 3040 3-Axis CNC Router, MillRight CNC Power Router, BobsCNC E3 CNC Router Engraver Kit, Genmitsu CNC 3018-Pro Router Kit, MY SWEETY 1610 CNC Machine, Carbide 3D Shapeoko 4, Ooznest Workbee, Onefinity Woodworker, Inventables X-Carve, The MPCNC – V1, Shark (NextWave), Stepcraft 420 – 840
All you need to know about hooking/wiring the laser head on your CNC machine!
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Endurance lasers hook up to MACH3
StepCraft Laser setup for Mach or UCCNC (PDF guide)
Tube 44.6mm OD x 38 ID. It is turned down to 43mm OD x 39 ID, (2mm wall thickness) and 25mm long.
Glued it to the laser body with PA10 primer.
PA10 is an etch primer paint made by International Paints. (This primer sticks very well to aluminum.)
WorkBee-Full-Kit-Assembly-Manual-xProV3.pdf
PROBOTIX setup: PBX-RF-Board-Pin-Outs-Jumpers
Smooth Stepper setup: use PWM pin for spindle SmoothStepperUserManualV1.0
PROBOTIX setup: PBX-RF-Board-Pin-Outs-Jumpers
CSMIO/IP-S setup : manual_csmioip-s_en_v2
Connecting Endurance Laser to The Buildbotics CNC Controller
Endurance lasers with MillRight CNC machines
G-code for 3D printed mount
STL file for 3D printed mount
For more files, please visit our download center.
X-Carve CNC laser mount example
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Installing the Endurance laser head on X-carve
Endurance laser on a Bever HDZero CNC
Shapeoko CNC machine – Endurance laser mount example
Thank you, John Walker, for making this video!
Setting up an Endurance 10 watt laser on Shapeoko CNC
The best getting started video for Shapeoko XXL 3 CNC machine!
Endurance Laser Shapeoko Quick-Start Guide (FULL PDF GUIDE)
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Shapeoko XXL 3 laser brackets (zip)
Download a sketch from Thingiverse (laser mount).
images were made by Sam Gironda
Stepcraft 420 mounts of an Endurance laser (our customer’s modification)
Stepcraft 420 installation files (STLs)
Laser mount on StepCraft 600 Black Edition
Laserhouder02_v10 | 
Alex CNC_50x76mmBase
Endurance Laser Hookup and Configuration Buildbotics
Running 10 watt PLUS laser on an ACRO (by Frank Kaylor)
Bever DHZ Endurance laser holder for 80 mm spindle
How to hook an Endurance laser to CNC machine (3018 CNC)
K2CNC router installation
More mounts about laser mounts (free STLs)
All STLs in one place repository >>> https://www.thingiverse.com/endurance_lasers/designs
How to install the laser to the CNC Shark router
Wiring to CNC Shark by Next Wave Automation
The laser is connected to CNC Shark via Dynamic Pwm Box. There is a spindle control connector on the control board, from which two wires go to the relay (circled on img1). Connect the Dynamic Pwm Box to these wires: red wire to the “in2+” terminal, black wire to the “in2-” terminal. The most convenient way to do this is to connect the wires coming from the Dynamic Pwm Box to the relay terminals to which the spindle control wires are connected. The laser is connected to the Dynamic Pwm Box to the “pwm” terminals via blue braided wires: the red wire is connected to “pwm+”, the black wire is connected to “pwm-“. As a result, you should get a connection diagram, as in img2.For laser operation, the three-position button on the LaserBox is set to “0”. On the Dynamic Pwm Box, the button is set to “II” mode. The laser is turned on and off by spindle on/off commands (M3/M5). The laser power is set by the handle on the Dynamic Pwm Box.
There are several versions of the CNC shark that have been developed over the years. You need to look at your controller and see if it has an output for the spindle to turn it on and off. Many of the newer models like the MAKO have this feature. If you do, then you are in luck! The spindle control uses a relay to switch the power on and off to the spindle. This relay is controlled by a DC voltage signal. This is the signal we need to turn on and off the laser.
Mount for bachinmaker d8-4050p engraver
If you open up your controller box, it should look something like this:
You are going to use the signal from the control board to the spindle relay and connect it over to the laser driver board input. Here is a more detailed picture:
Attach a wire from the relay “+” signal to the laser driver “+” terminal H2. Attach another wire on the relay “-” signal to the laser driver “-” terminal H2. Or, you can use the 3′ Molex Mini-fit cable and connect it into terminal H4 on the laser driver:
That is it, you are done!
Controlling the laser
You now can control your laser on and off using the same spindle commands of M3 to turn on the laser and M5 to turn it off.
Shark Laser wiring (alternative version)
Wiring to Sherline CNC machine (Endurance PRO laser)
Wiring the laser to Kinetic-NC PWM
Big collection of CNC routers and installed Endurance lasers
Wiring to a Denford Maxirouter using analog output (ENdurance PRO laser model).
How to Connect the laser to Duet3D Wifi Board
The PWM input of the laser is connected to the Fan0 output of the Duet board.
Power control teams
M106 S127 – 50% power
M106 S255 – 100% power
M106 S0 – Laser Off
PWM setup MACH3 – all you need to know – CPO-10V CNC4You.co.uk
Estlcam laser wiring
Thanks to one of our experts: Michael Poling, M.Sc.(Kin), M.Sc.(PT), CAFCI, Cred. MDT
Owner/Physiotherapist, Fairway Physiotherapy
Asst. Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
who made this wonderful video guidance!
Running your Endurance laser with Mach3 — wiring / pinouts / setup
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Personal experience of running 4×4 CNC router and 4 G201X Gecko controllers by Paul & Jaime Revel (Akari Studios)
The hardware configuration we are currently running consists of a 4×4 CNC router and 4 G201X Gecko controllers with a C10 breakout board which is hooked to a UC300ETH-5LTP. Our software to control this mess is UCCNC. We are using Vetric Aspire as our design program. The laser we currently have is an Endurance 10W+ that comes with a laser control box which makes it super easy to get the laser going thanks to the PWM wires. We routered a custom mount from plywood that slips over the spindle that was large enough to accommodate the laser and the control box. The laser comes with two 12 volt power adapters. One for the laser and one for the control box. The cord length on these are short so in our case, we need a 120-volt plugin close to the spindle. We ran SO cable through our cable run and plugged it into a power strip inside the CNC control panel. On the other end, by the spindle, we installed a GFI outlet. Then, we plugged in our two wall transformers for the laser. We ran a two-conductor shielded cable from our CNC control panel and ran it out to the spindle. We crimped male and female terminals on the laser control box’s PWM wires and on the shielded cable. Now when we want to use our router, it’s very easy to unplug the laser control box and the laser to set aside while the router is cutting. To get the laser to fire with UCCNC is about as easy as it was to hook it up. All we had to do was hook up one wire to pin 16 and the other to ground on our breakout board. Then, go into UCCNC’s I/O configuration and select pin 16 on the laser pin. Now, poof! It is hooked up.
The g-code was a little bit trickier because, at the time of writing this, there were no specific post processors for UCCNC from Vectric. To solve this problem, we modified a post-processor for Stepcraft. To check to see if your laser is working properly and you have control (everybody likes control, right?) you would type this into your MIDI: M3M10Q50. This should turn your laser on to 50% depending on how you have things set up. The caveat to the Stepcraft post-processor is that it uses S commands for speed and we need Q so you have to modify the post-processor to accommodate this.
3 axis cnc router (1250x1250x120 cut area)
300×300 D-bot 3D printer
750mm X-Carve
a 5 axis cnc from 5axismaker (500x500x400)
A large CNC machine controlled using Mach3 and an Ethernet Smooth Stepper
Acro
ADIMLab
Alfawise U30 printer
Anet A8
Anycubic
Anycubic 4max
Anycubic i3 (Anycubic i3 Mega)
Anycubic Photon
Atom2 Gizmo 3D
axiom precision ar8 pro cnc router wiring
Azteeg X3 Pro
Big ox CNC
Craftbot+
Creality 10 S5
Creality CR-10
Creality CR-10S pro
CTC flashforge replica
Custom Delta 3D printer
Davinci 1.0a with repetier
DlyingBrad
Eleksmaker / Eleksmaker A3 Mana board
Creality Ender
Creality Ender 2
Creality Ender 3
Creality Ender 4
Felix
Flashfordge (Flashforge)
FlSun
Folgertech FT-5
FT-5
Gecko g540 controller (GeckoDrive 540)
Geeetech
Home built 3D printer / Home built CNC Router
Home made printers from 220×220 to 1080×600
Hyper Cube
JG Auroga
Kossel
Laseraxe 2.5w CNCC
Laser-Bot
Legio 3D
Lutzbot
MakerBot
Makerfarm
MakerGear M2 (MakerGeora M2)
MakiBox
MillCarve
Monoprice
Monoprice maker select v2
MPCNC
MPMS v2 L
OpenBuilds C-Beam
OpenBuilds MiniMill with Duet electronics
Openbuilds Ox (OpenBuilds OX CNC router)
OpenBuilds-C Beam
pmdx – 411 interface
PrintrBot
Prusa
Prusa i3
Prusa mk3 / Prusa mk3s
Raise3D
Raprap RAMPS 1.4
Replicator 2 / 2X
Reprap
ReXYZ S22.
Rigitbot
Robo 3D
Robo3DR1+
Rostock max v2
SeeMeCNC
Shapeoko 2 / 3 XXL
Shark (Shark 4HD / Shark XD4)
Shopbot
Snapmaker
Solidoodle 2
Stepcraft 420
Stepcraft CNC
Taig Mill
TAZ5
TAZ6
Tevo / Tevo Little Monster
TinyG
TRex 2
Tronxy
Tronxy x5s
Tronxy XY-2
Ultimaker 1 / 2
Ultimate
Velleman K8220
WanHao
Wanhao 4S
WanHao Duplicator i3
X-Carve / X-carve 1000×1000
XYZ / XYZ Davinci A1.0.
Zortrax
Eleksmaker Mana
RAMPS
Arduino Uno + CNCShield V3
SKR 1.3
Anet A8
Duet 3D wifi
mks 1.0
CNC xPro V4
xpro v3
Rambo 1.3
Ethernet Smootstepper
Smoothieboard
Lerdge S,X,K
mks dlc
SainSmart Genmitsu CNC 3018
Laseraxe 3 axis board
blackbox openbuilds
DDCSV offline controller
fystec f6
Sainsmart Genmitsu 3018 MX Toshiba MCB with Mach 3&4
Duet LAN