Flameman/pcb-laser-exposer
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pcb laser exposer
project idea
The idea is to use a laser to define the traces on a standard photoresist-covered PCB-laminate.
On way would be to use a UV-laser (with suitable wavelength) to expose a positive photoresist, and then develop and etch the board the usual way. An option to a laser might be to use a high powered UV-diode with focusing optics to make a small enough dot of light to be useful.
laser dunnos (what i guess without an answer)
- using green LED's with a conic black coated tip, opened at the tip to 0.1 - 0.2mm width as 'light-pen' in a plotter for exposing positive photo-films ?
- or using modern UV-LED's
- or BluRay-diodelasers with 50-200mW for positive/negative films
- or 445nm(blue)-diodelaser with 1Watt max. power for exposing and/or cutting/engraving
- or 808nm/975nm-IR-diodelasers with powers of some Watts to some ten Watts of power for cutting/engraving
What would a laser (or diode/optics arrangement) ? with sufficient power cost?
- UV-LED with driver - some cents
- (salvaged) BluRay-diode with optics driver - some ten $/€
- 445nm-diodelaser with optics and driver - maybe 50 - 100 $
- IR-diodelaser with optics and driver - maybe 200 - 1500 $ (power-dependant)
- what about 405nm ???
polygon mirror
Its assembly is mounted vertically on the flatbed scanners sled. The flatbed scanner sled is the Vertical axis, and the polygon mirror defelcting the laser in the scanner is the horizonbtal axis. Each Horizontal line is scanned about 150 times before the sled moves on to the next vertical position. The laser is scanned by the mirror continuasly at 55 Revolutions of the mirror per second, or 333 Hz scanrate, as the mirror is hexagon shaped. The exposure pattern is produced by turning the laser on and of synced to the rotation of the mirror.
Optics & Optical Issues
The original laser in a laserprinter is infrared, and that wavelength doesn't work for exposing pcbs which need 405nm at least.
You'd removed the infrared laser, and make a nice alluminium laser mount milling down the mirror assembly to fit it. As the lenses in the polygon mirror assembly had the wrong optical properties for my application, csudr different wavelength and different focussing distance, you'd removed them all.
The optical system should consists only of the laser, its focussing lens, and the polygon mirror.
There is one problem with this: as the beam length varies with the angle of the deflected laser beam, the focus of the laser lens would also have to be adjusted for each beam length. As this isn't done, the laser gets blurry at the ends and the middle of the scanline. But this is not a problem in practice, as the image gets sharp enough.
how does laser beam work
beam idea from Panasonic KX P4410
where to buy (proof list)
laser @ 405nm ??
- Lilly-Electronics on ebay
- o-like
Canon LBP1210
laser
mirror motor
M63154AFP 3-phase Brushless driver ______________ VCC |1 \__/ 36| nc RS |2 35| Limit FLT |3 34| Vref B1 |4 33| Vctl PS |5 * 32| /Acc <----- phase.U |6 * 31| /Dec <----- pahse.V |7 30| RCP Gnd |8 29| Gnd Gnd |9 28| Gnd Gnd |10 27| Gnd Gnd |11 26| Gnd phase.W |12 25| SGnd HU+ |13 24| OSCV HU- |14 23| OSCC HV+ |15 22| FG- <----- it may be interesting HV- |16 21| FG+ <----- it may be interesting HW+ |17 20| Amp.out HW- |18 19| FGout |______________| output current ACC DEC VCTL(CPout) Function ------------------------------------------------ H(5V) H(5V) 0uA Hold H(5V) L(0V) -200uA Deceleration L(0V) H(5V) +200uA Acceleration L(0V) L(0V) 0uA Hold Cable Pin Symbol Function --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Vcc Power supply 2 RS Current sense 3 FLT Connect to application of filter 4 B1 Short brake switch 5 PS Power save signal input 6 U Motor phase U output 7 V Motor phase V output 8..11 Gnd Power Gnd 12 W Motor phase W output 13 Hu+ Hall sensor signal input (U phase +) 14 Hu- Hall sensor signal input (U phase -) 15 Hv+ Hall sensor signal input (V phase +) 16 Hv- Hall sensor signal input (V phase -) 17 Hw+ Hall sensor signal input (W phase +) 18 Hw- Hall sensor signal input (W phase 19 FGout FG comparator output 20 Amp.out FG amp. output 21 FG+ FG signal input (+) 22 FG- FG signal input (-) 23 OSCC OFF Timer setup -1 24 OSCV OFF Timer setup -2 25 SGnd Gnd 26..29 Gnd Power Gnd 30 RCP Charge pump output current setup term. 31 DEC Deceleration signal input 32 ACC Acceleration signal input 33 VCTL Motor speed control voltage input 34 VREF Reference voltage input 35 LIMIT Current limit set up terminal 36 N.C. N.C cable M63154AFP |1 |- 4,5, 8,9,10,11 (gnd) |2 |- 31 (/dec, deceleration input) |3 |- 32 (/acc, acceleration input) |4 |- 1,2 (Vcc)