Scanner Tuning Tutorial-resaved

SCANNER TUNING TUTORIAL Author: Adam Burns Let me say first of all that nearly all the damping. Without this information you won’t techniques mentioned in this tutorial were be able to complete the job.) gleaned from watching (and listening) to Bill Benner (president of Pangolin Laser Systems, 3) Be Safe! Make sure you can’t get hit with a Incorporated) as he tuned galvos for several stray beam. Wear goggles if there is a risk of different people at the various Laser Enthusiast stray beams. It’s also a good idea to dial back Meetings over the past year. Bill is obviously a the power on your laser (if it supports analog blanking), or put a pair of sunglasses or a pro at tuning, while I am not. Nevertheless, I hope that I’ve captured enough of his neutral density filter in front of the scanners to knowledge to be able to pass it on to others. reduce the brightness of the scanned image. (This also makes it easier to see changes in Let me also apologize in advance for the lack the pattern.) of video. We’ve tried twice to capture the process on tape, but both times the resulting Test Patterns video was useless. (Washed out and blurry) However, the photos that I’ve added to this Now, you’ll need several different test patterns tutorial should make the process at little in order to tune your galvos. The most easier, especially for folks that have never obvious one is the ILDA test pattern. There tried tuning their scanners before. are ...