Many of you know that I've had the J Tech 4.2w Laser add on for my Shapeoko XXL CNC machine for a while now.  While it works great its just to under powered and slow to be a real workhorse.  That's no fault to J Tech.  It's fairly powerful for a diode laser, but diodes are not meant to be production mode devices.

After a lot of deliberation and internet research, I decided to purchase a Chinese Laser.  I decided on the Orion Motor Tech 60 watt chinese laser yellow and black (upgraded version from the black and red version) color.  An american made laser was just not in the budget so I took the gamble on a Chinese laser.
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I know and have zero experience with a CO2 laser so I thought I'd do some blog posts to help others in my similar situation.

​In this video I walk you through configuring a GRBL based hobby CNC (specificly a Shapeoko 3 XXL) for use with a J Tech Laser and Lightburn software.
The CNC and Jtech aren't your typical laser configuration like a standalone unit would be, so there's some extra steps to configuring Lightburn with the Jtech and the Shapeoko.  These steps should work with most other hobby grade CNC units like the inventables X-Carve.
I'm using a Jtech 4.2w Laser.