Views: 0 Author: XD LASER Publish Time: 2021-04-19 Origin: XD LASER
2-3 years ago, the most popular laser power for steel cutting fiber laser cutting machine ranges 500W to 3000W. Now, the power range of fiber laser cutting machine is getting higher and higher. The minimum laser power is 1000W. No 500W and 750W now. The maximum laser power is 30000W till today. Maybe it will get bigger and bigger.
In recent years, laser cutting has become an ideal solution for sheet metal cutting industry because of its characteristics of high efficiency, high energy density, non-contact processing and flexibility, as well as its advantages in precision, speed and efficiency. As a precision machining method, laser cutting can process almost all materials, including two-dimensional cutting or three-dimensional cutting of thin metal plates. In the field of metal plate cutting, efficient cutting can be carried out from micron ultra-thin plates to tens of millimeters thick plates. It can be said that laser cutting has set off an important technological revolution in sheet metal processing industry.
Observing the whole development process of metal laser cutting machine, it is not difficult to find that the metal laser cutting machine with hundreds of Watts has developed rapidly to more than tens of thousands of watts.
1. If the power of metal laser cutting machine is low. It is difficult to cut metals with high thickness, and the effect of processed materials is not ideal. In this case, all manufacturers can do is to continuously develop and upgrade, and finally launch tens of thousands of watts of products to meet the market demand.
2. When cutting low-power thick metal plates, the metal laser cutting machine will not cut and discharge slag smoothly because the laser beam diameter is small and the cutting seam is thin. Cutting thick metal plates with inconsistent power requires the laser beam of metal laser cutting equipment to have better performance;
3. Although laser processing mode is adopted in metal laser cutting machine processing, it also belongs to thermal processing mode. When the thickness of metal material is too high and the metal laser cutting equipment is processing, the heat loss will increase because the cutting seam is too small. The greater the heat loss, the more unfavorable it is for the equipment to process metal materials, and the cutting speed will obviously become slow.
4. In terms of thick plate cutting, low-power metal laser cutting machine is difficult to achieve satisfactory results. To solve many problems of thick plate cutting, the first thing is to further improve the power, otherwise everything is empty talk. Therefore, metal laser cutting equipment will inevitably not develop in the direction of high power.
5. About cutting ability of higher power
Take 12000W fiber laser cutting machine as an example. It can cut maximum 40mm steel. That means, the cutting range of 12000W is 0.5mm to 40mm. This is really big range. In this case, you buy one machine,put in your factory and do more works than before. 2000W has cutting range 0.5mm to 18mm, but 12000W reaches to 0.5mm to 40mm. You do not need to buy 2nd machine.
6. About the faster cutting speed
When a factory buy a fiber laser cutting machine, the main reason is the fast cutting speed. The speed of 2KW,3KW and 4KW fiber laser cutters already have very fast cutting speed. But the laser power 12KW,15KW has the cutting speed 3 times faster. By the way, 12KW and 15KW can do all the works 2KW 3KW can do. That is the main reason for many factories buy higher laser powers.
7. Smaller nozzle smaller pressure flying cutting
Fiber laser cutting machine has the flying cutting function which needs higher pressure gas. With higher laser power, it can do flying cutting on steel plates with less gas pressure and smaller nozzles.
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