Laser Lines
23 May 2008
Firestar t-Series lasers are excellent for marking stainless steels due to their rise/fall times of less than 75 microseconds. They also provide a greater depth of modulation for a given marking frequency, meaning a larger percentage of peak energy is applied during each ‘laser on’ pulse. To mark a right-angled electrical connector stamped from 316 stainless steel with a 10-character code and including a Julian date code that incremented automatically, the power was set at 60W and the mark velocity at 165mm/second to achieve a cycle time of 0.22 seconds.
