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Roboda D1 Laser Kit
Desktop fixed-gantry router kit, 300 x 200 x 60 mm, for wood and plastic
₹23,500.00 excluding GST
Specification
| Platform | Roboda D1 |
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| Head | laser |
| Operations | laser_cutting, laser_engraving |
| Materials | Wood (Production), Plastic (Light duty), Acrylic (Light duty), Aluminium (Light duty); not supported: Steel, Mild steel |
| Assembly time | about 5.2 hours |
| Lead time | 10 days |
| MRP incl. 18% GST | Rs 27,730.00 |
What this machine will and will not work
| Wood Production | The material this head is for. 3 mm poplar or basswood ply cuts through in two passes at 400 mm/min with air assist, or one pass at 180 mm/min; 2 mm card and greyboard cut in a single pass at 600 mm/min. Raster engraving runs at 3 000 mm/min on a 0.08 mm line, which is where a diode of this power is genuinely good. Above about 6 mm the edge chars badly and the pass count stops being worth it - that is the honest ceiling, not a setting to be tuned around. Cork, felt, vegetable-tanned leather and paper behave like thin ply. Always over the honeycomb bed, never straight onto MDF. |
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| Plastic Light duty | Narrow and conditional. Opaque dark ABS-free sheet up to about 2 mm can be scored and engraved; polypropylene and polyethylene melt into a bead rather than cutting, and the melt closes behind the beam. Delrin and acetal release formaldehyde on heating and are not worth it. **PVC and PTFE must never be laser-cut** - hydrogen chloride and fluorine compounds respectively - and polycarbonate and ABS are on the forbidden list too, for plume and for the fact that they char instead of cutting. Class is light because the list of plastics this head handles well is much shorter than the list it does not. |
| Acrylic Light duty | **Clear acrylic cannot be cut by this head at all, at any power or speed.** Acrylic is effectively transparent at 450 nm - the beam passes straight through and deposits its energy in whatever is underneath. That is a physics limit of a blue diode, not a tuning problem, and no amount of passes changes it. Dark, opaque and cast-coloured acrylic absorbs and can be cut to about 3 mm in two or three passes at 120 mm/min, with a matt rather than a flame-polished edge. If clear acrylic matters to you, the spindle head cuts it properly and the SL variant carries both. |
| Aluminium Light duty | Surface marking only, and only on stock that already has something on the surface to remove. Black-anodised and powder-coated aluminium mark cleanly at 100 % power and 600 mm/min in two passes, ablating the dye to leave the bright substrate - the test tag in bag P is for exactly this check. **Bare aluminium cannot be marked and must not be tried**: it reflects 450 nm strongly and sends the beam somewhere you are not looking. Cutting aluminium of any thickness is impossible with a 10 W diode. |
| Steel Not supported | Not supported. A 10 W optical 450 nm diode cannot cut steel of any thickness - the power density is three orders short of what a cutting process needs, and steel reflects and conducts away what does arrive. Marking bare steel needs either a fibre source at 1064 nm or a sacrificial marking compound, and neither is within this platform's scope: the only Roboda kit that marks steel is the fibre-head variant of the enclosed C-frame platform. Attempting it here produces a hot reflective surface and nothing else. |
| Mild steel Not supported | Mild steel is not supported for the same optical reasons as steel above, and hot-rolled MS adds one more: the scale on the surface flakes, scatters the beam unpredictably and puts iron oxide dust into the extraction system. Cutting MS sheet on a Roboda kit means a plasma head, which exists only on the large-format platforms; marking it means a fibre source. Neither is this machine, and no setting on this machine gets close. |
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