I’m looking for information about using the quick dock on the Avid.
The kit from Opt has a different wiring set up and i’m curious how difficult (or easy) it will be to set up the dock to work with the Avid.
Has anyone already set this up that can give some insites?
I have the new Dock Pro. The cable that normally goes from the adapter to the laser will now go to the Dock’s base plate, and then they ship it with a short cable that goes from the laser side plate to the laser. It really doesn’t have anything to do with which machine its on as far as wiring goes. The machine specific wiring is on the input side of the adapter box.
The mechanical mounting will vary from machine to machine, and more importantly how you want to do it.
There is a good manual here: Download
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
Thanks, since we ordered the laser through Avid the connectors were all different. our laser has the Avid standard connector and not the green ended on that comes from Opt. i’m guessing it may just be contained inside the 3d printed section at the back of the laser. We are still waiting on the dock so i guess ill wait until then to try to open it up and figure out what is going on with the connections.
thanks again,
I’m sitting here with the Pro doc and our laser we purchased from avid and these cables 100% will not go together. The laser as we’ve gotten from Avid appears to have had the green block connector cut out and a 3D printed adapter has been put in its place.
Even the back of the laser where the dock would attach has another heat sink block attached seemingly from inside the laser itself so it can not be taken off to mount the dock.
The 15 watt lasers from us are customized for our cabling ecosystem.
You should be able to reverse engineer it from the schematics that you can find right here:
https://www.avidcnc.com/support/instructions/laser/technical/23.1/schematics/
Gotcha,
Thanks for the information, when we ordered it i guess we thought it would be sort of a straight forward install but we’ll figure it out. maybe we can document it and post whatever parts we need to print to make it tidy.
You can get field wireable M12 connectors on Amazon to make your own connectors into our cabling. With that schematic it should be trivial to make something that hooks into our plugs, requires no irreversible work and looks factory
And in case they mention it, you want the “A coded” connectors. If it says B C or D coded, they won’t work right. I think the default is A if it doesn’t say, but beware.
(the “coding” determines where and what key it has)
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Made a short video review of the Opt LaserDock Pro.
I have bought a couple M12 connectors and bulkheads from the Avid store, if you’re looking to match. Looks like they’re still sold.
https://www.avidcnc.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=m12
ya, I just bought some for adding a touch probe to my system. I like the AVID ones because the cables are very high quality, and the wire is twisted shielded, so very immmune to noise.
Did ever get the quick doc mounted to you avid laser?