Hi, today I made progress. The problem I was having was that the laser stayed on and didn't turn off when switching to other areas of the image being engraved. That left a move line that messed with the result. To rule out the controller, I switched controller boards with the one from my damaged 10w laser engraver. My engraver now works as it should, there must have been a problem with the original controller board.
This is the engraver working:
This is the engraver done:
This is the result on 1/2" plywood:
I'll now screw on the replacement controller board to the laser engraver. Future work will consist of experimenting on doing gray scale and more complex images.
Regards,
Richard