FL1500 - Up to 0.075" (1.9 mm) steel
FL3000 - Up to 0.150" (3.8 mm) steel
FL4500 - Up to 0.250" (6.0 mm) steel
Low Pressure (LP) - Up to 130 psi, and materials under 1/8"
High Pressure (HP) - Up to 250 psi, nitrogen cutting, and materials above 1/8"
Cutting round tube up to 3" Ø or square and rectangle tube up to 2" Ø
Specifications apply to both Sheet (FLXXXX-S) and Tube & Sheet (FLXXXX-TS)
Materials
Power Levels and Requirements
The fiber laser produces a beam of infrared light that is focused down to a 0.005” (0.13mm) spot. The metal gets hot enough to melt, and an assist gas blows it through, creating the cut
Each model and configuration cuts different materials at different thicknesses. Our fully powered high-pressure FL4500-HP is capable of cutting mild steel up to 0.250" (6 mm)
It varies depending on configuration and material. Around 3” (76.2mm) per second, with different power lasers and materials going up to 10” (254mm) per second or down to 0.1” (2.5mm) per second - still fast for cutting thick metal
Aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, gold, inconel, mild steel, nitinol, silicon steels, silver, stainless steel, titanium, 4130 chromoly, and more
No, fiber lasers produce light that isn’t absorbed by these materials. For those materials you want a CO2 laser
Yes, it can do both outline vector fonts and pictures, and can raster bitmap images as well
IPG fiber laser
The laser is only on 10% of the time, but the power is 10 times higher, so it puts out 4,500W instead of 450W, though it can also be run in “continuous” mode at 450W
Only two - Fablight's require a 110V (20A) wall outlet and clean dry air. That's it. No external exhaust for fumes, and it even comes on wheels in a crate with a built-in ramp
It cuts well with clean, dry air. We recommend at least 130 psi for most materials, but higher pressure is needed for thicker materials. It uses around 5 CFM of air. You can use nitrogen for cleaner cuts on stainless steel
We currently leave air gas equipment to the experts. However, we do provide an assist gas system recommendation sheet that you can download here
It runs on a single 110V, 20A outlet (or 220V for overseas use). The machine itself uses power like a hair dryer, around 2200W, but that’s only while cutting. The vacuum exhaust uses another 1100W. The total cost is under $1 an hour to run
Assuming electricity is an expensive $0.25 per kWh, and with the vacuum exhaust it needs 3300W, that’s 3.3kWh * $0.25kWh = $0.83 to run for an hour (with constant cutting). It uses around 3 CFM of gas, which is approximately $100 annually for 1 CFM. So for air that’s $300/year, or around $1.50/day (at 200 days/year), or $0.18/hour for an 8 hour shift, for a total of $1.01/hour. And those are very conservative estimates