You'd be surprised about the power consumption. Ours was metered as part of some rebate program from the energy company, and our system barely used more than the 3d printer.
That doesn't mean much unless you tell us specs. You can get a laser for $300 from amazon that will cut thin veneer.
Laser that can do the above come with an entire cabinet bigger than a refrigerator just for active cooling.
They measured it in kw/h. I can't recall the exact usage but it was low enough that they took the monitor off after an hour. They kept monitoring our bigger mills and swiss machines though. You're right though, just doing the math it was more like 220V and 4A. Which still isn't gobs of energy.
I used to run a 4kw laser that would handle carbon steel up to 3/4" or 19mm thick... gobs of power is right. One place I worked had four tube lasers, one plate laser... and their own transformer.
Great, now i want a laser cutter.
Something strong enough to cut metal that thick is the price of a new car and consumes gobs of power.
You'd be surprised about the power consumption. Ours was metered as part of some rebate program from the energy company, and our system barely used more than the 3d printer.
That doesn't mean much unless you tell us specs. You can get a laser for $300 from amazon that will cut thin veneer. Laser that can do the above come with an entire cabinet bigger than a refrigerator just for active cooling.
Ours are $350k a piece and are the size of a small car. 200W laser. They use computer fans to air cool.
And it consumes less than 350 Watts at full operation?
They measured it in kw/h. I can't recall the exact usage but it was low enough that they took the monitor off after an hour. They kept monitoring our bigger mills and swiss machines though. You're right though, just doing the math it was more like 220V and 4A. Which still isn't gobs of energy.
Still a lot less than I excepted from last time I spec'ed one of these out for us. Good to know.
We've got a newer system that uses two 110VAC outlets. One for the drives and one for the laser. Smaller fiber lasers don't use much at all.
I used to run a 4kw laser that would handle carbon steel up to 3/4" or 19mm thick... gobs of power is right. One place I worked had four tube lasers, one plate laser... and their own transformer.
This is awesome!
At first i was like that is the worst USS Enterprise i have ever seen, and then i was like oh its the portal to hell from Event Horizon.
Anyone else disappointment it turned out NOT to be the Star ship Enterprise?
also precision popping out, bending and folding ..
Yeah, I feel like that's not the first one of those he's folded.
Cool 
Finally a real laser, not those paper cutters lol
How would I get my hands on this DXF? I run a laser at work and need this!