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Laser Cutter Water Cooling
Laser Cutter Water Cooling
The old laser cutters water cooling system was very simple with no monitoring and only consisting of a fish pond pump in a bucket of water. For a while now, I have been wanting the upgrade to a system with flow and temperature monitoring. The new systems use a 5L reservoir water tank and a 12V pump to run the water to the CO2 laser with a flow sensor and 5 temperature sensor. On the side of the cooling system is an LCD that displays the temperatures and warnings when the temperatures rise above a max temperature. If a warning appears on the LCD, a buzzer will sound, indicating there is a problem. The 5 temperatures are located in the reservoir tank, on the motor after cooling and before/after the laser. The motor is all run off the PLEX board. This system will not control the pump.1x PLEX or Arduino UNO board 1x 16x2 LCD 5x DS18B20 digital temperature sensor 1x Hall water flow meter 1x buzzer
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The monitor Program can be found here: https://github.com/tinkersprojects/water-cooling-monitor The PLEX PCB can be found here: https://tinkersprojects.com/product/plex-controller/The old laser cutters water cooling system was very simple with no monitoring and only consisting of a fish pond pump in a bucket of water. For a while now, I have been wanting the upgrade to a system with flow and temperature monitoring. The new systems use a 5L reservoir water tank and a 12V pump to run the water to the CO2 laser with a flow sensor and 5 temperature sensor. On the side of the cooling system is an LCD that displays the temperatures and warnings when the temperatures rise above a max temperature. If a warning appears on the LCD, a buzzer will sound, indicating there is a problem. The 5 temperatures are located in the reservoir tank, on the motor after cooling and before/after the laser. The motor is all run off the PLEX board. This system will not control the pump.1x PLEX or Arduino UNO board 1x 16x2 LCD 5x DS18B20 digital temperature sensor 1x Hall water flow meter 1x buzzer
