{"id":356,"date":"2021-12-01T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=356"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:14:37","slug":"friendess-bcs100-fiber-laser-capacitive-height-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Friendess BCS100 Fiber Laser Capacitive Height Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>THIS IS UNTESTED CURRENTLY &#8211; DO NOT PUT THIS INTO USE WITHOUT VETTING THE INFORMATION YOURSELF!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We purchased a BCS100 fiber laser amplifier despite it not having a documented pinout so we can connect it up to LinuxCNC and use it for height control on a DIY fiber laser build.  So far here&#8217;s our best guess at an electrical schematic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Guess.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Guess.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Guess.png 778w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Guess-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Guess-768x582.png 768w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Guess-624x473.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Thanks Ken for your expertise as always!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on some preliminary tests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements-1024x710.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements-1024x710.png 1024w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements-1536x1066.png 1536w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements-624x433.png 624w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Electrical-Measurements.png 1897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Note the arrow aimed at the connector index, pin 1 to the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS IS UNTESTED CURRENTLY &#8211; DO NOT PUT THIS INTO USE WITHOUT VETTING THE INFORMATION YOURSELF! We purchased a BCS100 fiber laser amplifier despite it not having a documented pinout so we can connect it up to LinuxCNC and use it for height control on a DIY fiber laser build. So far here&#8217;s our best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}