 Our friends over at Xtool sent us the new P2 55 watt desktop laser and we're gonna do an unboxing and set up right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week We got a new toy and it's bigger than a bread box. This is the new Xtool P2 55 watt CO2 laser So we're gonna do a quick unboxing set up and our first project and tell you all about it Step one pop it out of the box. This guy came FedEx. There is no lift gate. There is no pallet jack It was delivered by my regular FedEx guy. I mean, I guess it's not that heavy It's only 99 pounds. Although I didn't do any of the lifting The dimensions of the P2 are 39.4 inches wide 25.1 inches deep and 10.6 inches high which makes this one a little bit larger than our other desktop lasers So it may be a little larger But it does weigh a little bit less than the others and I think that's due to its plastic shell Some of the pieces on here are plastic like the backside and the piece that covers the laser tube This came with a great quick start guide. We followed it step by step What's different about this one is that the water coolant comes separate and you add that after the fact once you unpackage it Which was a good thing because this thing was delivered on its side, which made me a little bit worried about the water inside So the first thing it wants me to do is finish removing all the foam from the inside and then Unscrew the screw that fixes the base plate. So the screw is at the front bottom of the laser I Have to get that screw out so that I can pull out the base plate Once I remove the base plate, I'm gonna take out the rest of the foam and there's some acrylic in there I'm gonna replace the base plate and replace the screw put the screw back in it and what's interesting about this one This laser comes with a blade bed instead of a honeycomb bed. So that's different than the other lasers as well These blade pieces they're removable. You can take them in and out. You can move their configuration They're just held in with a like a little spring at the top and bottom I'm gonna make sure the laser head moves freely. I'm gonna move it around the entire cutting area not only did it come with all of the Components to put it together like its cables and this exhaust tube and the water It also came with a few test-cutting materials 3 millimeter basswood some corrugated cardboard and transparent acrylic The peatle has a larger working bed size The processing area is 23.6 by 12.1 This thing comes with two 16 megapixel cameras. It's got one panoramic camera back in the back This is a picture of the entire bed And then it's got the close range camera This camera sits on the actual laser head And you can actually take a picture that's not fish-eyed And actually align something really closely, you know, it'll zero in on a piece of that cutting area This also comes with adjustable air assists So you can turn the air assist on or off depending upon whether you're engraving or cutting A great safety feature on the p2 here is that the lid locks while it's running You can't open it while it's running And it has this emergency off switch on the side So if there are any issues you just hit that and everything stops running immediately 2 hardware install To fill the tank we need to remove the plate over the tube in the back And to do that we have to remove six screws from the front of the machine And five screws from the back of the machine And don't forget the one screw in the top left of the front It's a little hidden We're going to fill the antifreeze The mixture depends on where you live and whatever your lowest temperature is Once the antifreeze is full we're going to power on the machine And let the laser tube fill with the water Let that run for about 30 seconds turn it off And then top off the antifreeze level in the cooling container We're going to replace the back panel that covers the tube and screw it back in Finally, we're going to add the exhaust tube using its little clamp that it comes with I'm going to put the other end into an air filter that we already own Software install The X-Tool does come with its own free software X-Tool Creative Space There is no subscription fee. It's just straight up free It also works with several operating systems Windows, Mac, iPad X-Tool P2 also supports the use of light burn software Except you'll lose things like the auto pass through batching And engraving on curved surfaces X-Tool Creative Space has come a long way from when we first started using it back with the X-Tool D1 Back in the day. It was pretty rudimentary, but now it's pretty robust It's got a lot of the same features that light burn has You can even do a little design work right inside creative space now It supports multiple layers. You can do some drawing You can even edit down to the individual nodes to adjust your images It supports your standard graphic files your svgs dxf jpegs and pngs The P2 supports wi-fi usb and ethernet We connected the usb just long enough so that we could set up the wi-fi Step four complete setup Do it like this. It's monocle. It's the optical alignment To do the optical path test, we're going to go to settings Then we're going to go to settings on the left and then optical path setup. We're going to click test We'll move the laser head using the software to the bottom Right all the way front all the way right We're going to remove this little panel so that we can access the second mirror Make sure the laser head is all the way forward and all the way right Next we're going to test our alignment of our mirrors. So we're going to put a little masking tape over What is this the head laser head hole The laser head hole Here we're going to do a quick pulse to see where the laser beam lines up on that laser head hole It's just going to shoot a quick burst of laser And we learned that with our painter's tape It caught on fire. So we're going to need to move over to some packing tape. The hole's too big I can't tell where it actually landed in the hole if it landed We're going to add the clear packing tape here here. You can see the hole. We're going to give it another quick pulse And we can see that our mirrors are not aligned the beam was high left So the first thing I'm going to do is check mirror number two. It's magnetic. I'm just going to make sure it's seated correctly We gave it another quick pulse and we can see that it really was off center. It's high into the left I'm going to have to adjust the mirror number two and to do this we're going to loosen the locking screws on the side And then we'll turn the screws in the back A quarter turn each time we'll turn it a quarter turn and then we'll give it a quick pulse And we see that now we're even worse. We're even higher than we were before So back to the screws I'm going to turn that screw back about an eighth of a turn. We'll loosen another screw And turn that one a quarter of a turn Now we're going to do the we'll twist the screw give it a pulse Check where it lies twist the screw give it a pulse until we're dead center And then once we're dead center, we'll tighten those locking screws on the side again I'm going to replace the little panel that covers up mirror number two And move the laser head back to the top left Step five time for some test cuts For our first cut we're going to do a star. That's what the instruction video does as a star So we're going to follow along. I was surprised to see how many different shapes they had Yeah, isn't that great? I know in Illustrator, I get so aggravated when I can't do a simple heart I'm going to select this as a cut And I was also surprised how many preset materials they had in this little drop down Like a lot. So we're just going to select three millimeter basswood. That's what we have That's it, right? That's all I have to do. Yeah process And then process You do have to hit the start button on the machine to get it to do anything to get it to move and go which locks the door I love how quickly that z-axis came down. Look, it just dropped right down Here All right, I think that looks great I know there's very little charring on both the front and the back And that was only like 27 seconds. So That was pretty good cut. Good first test cut And here's the big question. Is it going to do quarter inch MDF? We're going to do a refresh of the bed. I've already put the board in there And we're going to see if I can cut this same star out of quarter inch MDF Let's go back to our materials Let's go to more. I was shocked to see how many more materials they have like look at this list Man, I'm just looking at six millimeter and like 10 things comes up Three different thicknesses of MDF. I do enjoy that All right, their settings didn't go all the way through. It looks like it almost went through. It's peeking through And since I'm at 100 power, I'm going to back the speed down a little bit I mean that is the right measurement 0.236 So I'm just going to take this down to 10. I feel like 10 is safe Oh, wait I need to move that star. So I'm not cutting over the old star Let's refresh the bed I'm going to refresh the bed See where this thing hits Now I know with the fish eye lens Things get less accurate as you go towards the edge. So we're going to actually use their close capture view And see how close We can get testing its limits testing the limits Cut number two So it took a close picture of it using that 16 megapixel camera and now I can really zoom in I'm at like almost 400 and I'm going to try to see how close I can get it to that scored star I love how that z-axis drops down so fast And what you can't see here is that when he was Doing that close alignment with the camera on The laser head the camera did shift over and hover over the close views section You see that I can't open the the door. I'm ready to go take a look at it But it's not it's not done processing. So it won't let me open the top lid and it looks Just like it did on the creative space landed right Next to the other star very close And that looks like a clean cut too and the edges aren't too charred. So they look pretty good. That looks brown. That's nice Step six time for our first project. It's going to be a real world real project We're going to load our quarter inch mdf And the board that I put in is 14 inches by 25 and a half inches And the board that I just placed on top is a typical board that I use inside my glow forge For our first test cut, we're going to load in One of our svgs and create a desktop version of our sign This one is 10.3 inches And we can fit the backer and all of the top layer pieces on this one board The exhaust fan on this machine pulls about 145 cubic feet per minute The cleaner you can keep the air inside the machine while it's cutting the cleaner your cut is going to look So you might consider adding another inline exhaust fan to pull even more smoke out But so far this is doing pretty good with the cut that we have with the built-in exhaust fan as is A little bit more about this machine while things are cutting Remember this is a 55 watt co2 glass tube laser The z-axis moves up to three inches The processing area again is 23.6 by 12.1 And the max working piece height is with the tray It's two and a half inches without the tray It's 2.7 inches and with the riser base, which is an optional accessory It can cut something up to eight and a half inches The cut time on this was about 19 minutes. That wasn't bad at all I'm surprised how much that just the extra five watts will increase my speed Yeah, this is a pretty complicated cut because it has all those tiny little Puppy paws on there, but you can see the edges are nice and brown. They aren't too charred There's not a lot of burn marks on the material. So it looks great. We're just going to paint it as is What i'm really excited about though are some of the features that we haven't even touched on yet Things like the automatic pass through where it uses a conveyor belt to automatically feed material through during a Pass through cut. I'm excited about that The automatic pass through does use a set of risers So we don't have the risers yet But i'm excited about using the risers because that'll allow you to engrave something up to eight and a half inches tall I'm also looking forward to using the re2 pro rotary tool. This is a four and one rotary tool This works with some of the other x-tool accessories and it works with the p2 I'm super excited about and I think the most excited about Is the engraving on concave and convex surfaces with the automatic z-axis I can't wait to just test that out. I have a bunch of ideas for that one Right that'll let you engrave on the inside of a bowl or the outside of a bowl Or the top of a skateboard or the bottom of a skateboard We are about out of time. So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show We will see you next week where we'll do it ability to make it again And don't forget to join us on tuesdays where we'll do a test cut tuesday Where we're usually testing out a new design painting it and putting it together And one more time I just want to say thank you to x-tool for allowing us to test out this brand new machine I'm super excited and I hope you guys are excited about it as much as we are You