There are a number of hackspaces which try to go the cheap route when it comes to laser cutting and engraving, these machines are expensive, and unless you know what you're doing, they can be extremely dangerous.
One such repeated incident is with a 60watt laser cutter that my local hackspace has acquired, upgraded and attempted to fix over the years. With difficulties attaching cabling to the laser tube itself, through to the high voltage insulation or lack of it from the power supply unit to the rest of it itself.
However when you try to find guidance or assistance on ensuring insulation for high voltage, somewhat quite rightly, it's difficult to find. We're in the realms of trained professionals here, but still partial or low to no information is worse than the right information.
Recently, it's been arcing to the case, and that's not good. We guess that the power is 10-45kv and it has literally corroded it
What is a hackspace to do?
