 We got a new toy the omtech polar. We're gonna set it up and test it out right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder to make it so do we we have a new video each week this week? We've got a new toy omtech sent us the new polar 350. Yes. It's their new desktop laser It's a 50 watt laser with a 12 by 20 bed actually. It's 11.8 by 20 point one To be exact and it has all the bells and whistles. It has an onboard camera a water chiller air assist It's exhaust has an external inline fan to go with it, and I'm really excited about its rotary tool Yes, and it uses industry standard software So I know if you've heard of lasers you've heard a light burn and it uses light burns So we're excited to unbox this thing set it up and do our first test cut Step one we're gonna unbox it this thing was delivered by freight They use the lift gate and a pallet jack to actually get it into our warehouse From there it was too heavy to lift and bring in so we thought we would Uncrate it out in that warehouse, and then hopefully it would be a little lighter to bring in Yeah, so we were able to see what came in the box. We had all kinds of goodies here You can see the inline fan. You can see all the hoses and cables All kinds of goodies we took those out and then it had these cool straps on it. Yeah, it was ready to be lifted Yeah, well, I was a little nervous that it once we lifted it with those straps I was like are they attached on the bottom? It's not gonna slide off. Is it I have faith I just lifted we did we just lifted but then later when I got it on to the desk There was nothing holding them on they could have slipped off Well, it was it was hooked on a little feet on the bottom and once we got it out of the crate We did notice that that's where the Extra materials were like all their sample materials and these are a nice size sample materials Yeah, 12 by 20 sheets of acrylic. There's five sheets there Some cardboard board and some birch. Yeah Then the tumbler tool was actually like on the side. It was packaged. This is part of the side foam Tucked in the side so don't throw away your crate until you check all your foam step two Hardware setup this thing is 104 pounds So it did take two of us to get it up onto the table But it really only takes one of us to set it up That's right. And that was me. So we started with the exhaust We started with the ventilation hoses. There's two sizes a small hose and a large hose We started with the small hose and added that to the back of the laser and clamped it down Then we added the reducer To the intake of the inline fan Here garret is showing to Stretch the reducer a little bit We're adding a little heat and it makes it a little bit flexible so that it slides on nice and tight And then we attached the other end of the small hose to the reducer and clamp it down And then on the other end of the inline fan We will attach one end of the large hose and clamp it down The other end of the large hose is used for your exhaust So you'll either exhaust that out of a window Out of your garage or you may even attach it to a filter. Then we'll attach the power cord After that we added the remote interlock connector So in your little toolbox, you'll see that the remote interlock connector And the keys are zip tied together. This is a two-part power system The first part of the power will be to add this interlock connector in the back So we'll just plug that in While we're here, we're going to go ahead and turn the beam attenuator all the way up so that you'll feel it Stop it's at 100 We'll come around the front and we'll add the crumb tray And check our coolant level. You want to make sure that this is full We'll go ahead and plug in our machine Flip the switch in the back Come back to the front and add our key Turn the key on and suddenly we have power Once it's powered up, we're going to double check and ensure that the air assist is flowing So you can see setup was really very easy. It's just simply attaching these hoses Adding the power turning it on. Yeah, I mean that was pretty easy Step three Software setup. We're going to start by adding these two usb cables into the back of the laser One is for the camera. One is for the laser Next we're going to go into light burn. Now. We already had light burn We use light burn on other lasers like our x-tool and the other omtech lasers to add our laser. We went to devices Find my laser It found it on the usb. We're going to select the serial usb We're going to go next I'm going to name it polar. I'm going to verify my bed size. This is millimeters. I'm going to assume it's okay We should make sure that the laser starts at the top right and I'm going to say okay Back to the devices drop down and we're going to select polar Next we did a little test by drawing a square and framing it out just to make sure that the two were talking Software installation and getting it to talk to the software was also super easy That's usually where a lot of things get sticky. Yes. The software setup is super simple You can't hardly mess it up with the usb direct connect cables It does connect through wi-fi. We just haven't set that up yet. That'll be something we try later step four Time to set up the camera Now this is pretty easy as well. This is all done through light burn In light burn, we're going to go to the menu laser tools Select calibrate camera lens Select your camera ours. This is the bottom one on this list And here you should be able to see your camera view and see your laser bed We're going to select fish eye lens and hit next Now the first step it's going to tell you is to print out this little Um dot pattern. Yeah this dot pattern now what we didn't realize and learned later is that You can't just use this. You're going to have to hold this dot pattern up Yeah, you're going to have to put it on an angle and you can't just hold it like this because it's too floppy and it's too angled You're definitely going to want to glue this Or paste it or something tape it attach it. Yes. Attach it somehow to something stiff little piece of cardboard We had this little piece of mdf laying around So we made sure that we did it with this mdf behind it from here You're going to use that dot pattern to align your camera You're going to have to pay attention to this diagram in the upper left corner It's going to show you where your dot pattern needs to be in relation to your camera The picture on the right just shows you where your dot pattern will sit on the laser bed You're going to move this dot pattern around and you're going to do this nine times The dot pattern is going to be positioned kind of like a tic-tac toe board There are three boxes across the top three in the middle three at the bottom And you're going to position this dot pattern in each of those nine boxes Uh and capture it each time Pay attention when you get to the side boxes and the corner boxes The view in in this diagram in the top left is going to have you angle your dot pattern Uh in such a way that the camera is picking it up at an angle And that's how you're going to get your something less than one score Now we never got our score down to this point three or less ideal that it speaks of We got ours under one that was the closest we could get but it seems to be okay for us and We just continued through each of the different capture windows until we got to the end and finish Once your camera setup is complete you're going to go back to calibrate camera alignment Our camera on this laser is mounted to the lid so we're just going to make sure that that lid is closed So here we're going to enter our material thickness. We're using eighth inch birch So we're going to select three millimeters We're going to set our fill speed fill power our line speed our line power And then we're going to keep it at a 100 scale for this size laser We're going to frame it And then hit start and it's going to engrave this pattern sample image and pattern over here on the right Once the test pattern is complete, you're going to hit next And now you're going to align the crosshairs to the center of each of the numbered test patterns And put it right in the center Well as close to the center as you can And click on each one. You're going to do this four times Once you're done, you're going to click capture image If during calibration when you're lining those crosshairs your image looks upside down That seemed to be okay for us. We were a little concerned about that But once we completed the next step and refreshed the image The orientation was correct on our screen. So I think it's supposed to be that way Yeah, and that wasn't too bad. I mean it was tedious And we never actually hit I guess perfect But it wasn't that bad. We were still within that less than one Score so the camera seems to be aligned and calibrated correctly It might be off a couple of millimeters. Maybe in the future we try it again if That proves to be an issue. Yeah, when we're doing something super intricate But right now it seems to be working as is Step five time for a test cut everything is set up Everything is ready to go and I found an omtech light burn laser cut test file Yeah, that is a mouthful And we're gonna go ahead and run that I'm gonna leave all the settings as is like I downloaded it except I'm gonna change the engraved settings to be 150 speed 50 power and 300 dpi Let's see how it goes All right Well that came out great And I love this little card this little card is great because now I know what all of my best speed and power settings are For this eighth inch birch if I do this for all my materials I'll know what all of my materials perfect settings will be. Yeah, what those perfect settings are be Yeah, you can tell that some of the holes where it did start cutting You can see where it started to burn the hole and then that golden brown is what you want That's the perfect speed and power setting. You could see some that almost came through but didn't quite make it so This is a great little file. We'll put a link to this little file down below so that you guys can use it as well I'm really excited about this new laser. I think this is a great starter laser So there's a little less hand holding than on the glow forge with this one, but it's a great It still has all those safety features It's a great way to start learning lasers and because we're using light burn or if you start with light burn It's a great way to start understanding that industry standard software almost all the lasers lasers work with light burn So it's a great tool to start with now. You don't have to start with light burn It does come with its own software rd works But our recommendation is go ahead and pay for that light burn license and start using that tool I can't wait to do more videos with this Um, this was just a setup video an unboxing and a setup this week But we're really excited to start using the tumbler tool. Yes. I cannot wait to get into that rotary tool Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it and all the kind of fun things we make with it And I agree with you totally this it doesn't have all the hand holding the glow forge does But it's not nearly as hard to set up as the 80 watt laser was Yeah, we didn't have to align mirrors on this one We didn't have to set up a separate water chiller and understand how the water chiller works It's all built in so it's a great starter laser Again, once you go from this one to the next one if you decide you want a bigger laser in the future Lightburn you'll already know how to use that same software So, you know, who knows about that lightburn software a lot of our patrons know about that lightburn software We talk lasers all the time over there in patreon. I'm always giving them a Files that go right in the lightburn all the files that I make are made for lightburn And they use them. They give me feedback. They make some of their own So Good job patrons. 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