Problems with Snapmaker 2.0 1.6W Laser Etching with Acrylic

[Zeargi]

Good afternoon,

I’m extremely new to this whole Snapmaker stuff, and I’ve not really had too good of an experience so far.
I’m trying to make a tag thing for a friend, and I’m using acrylic.

This is a separate piece than what I was originally using as I took off both sides of the papers attached to it. But I’m running into a two fold problem. My machine isn’t even a year old yet and when I run projects with the laser, many times it just won’t turn on. There is a high chance of user error, but it still seems that there might be an issue that’s beyond what I’m doing.

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I’m not sure what exactly I’m doing wrong, or if I’m doing anything wrong at all. Still, I honestly can’t get the laser to turn on at all until I adjust the Laser Power on the slider in these settings, but I thought that it should automatically change the power settings with the processes that you set up for the project

[sdj544]

Your power in the g-code is only at 5% which isn’t going to do much of anything.

Also, if you have an enclosure there is a safety lock that turns off the laser if the door is open (or the sensor isn’t working properly/out of alignment)

-S

[Zeargi]

The power shouldn’t be set to 5%. Plus, even with it set to 5 the laser should still be visible. It’s not at all. In the processes, I’m setting the laser’s power to 90% and 100%, respectfully. So, something isn’t going right in the transition over from the G-Code generation to the workstation.

(PS Edit: I don’t have the enclosure yet)