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?

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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 goe…

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 doc…

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 …

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)

Made a short video review of the Opt LaserDock Pro. [Review of the new Opt Lasers 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.

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Made a short video review of the Opt LaserDock Pro.

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