ACMER P3 48 Watt Laser Module

Recently ACMER sent me their P3 2 IN 1 which I reviewed here. As a follow up to that blog they sent me their ACMER P3 48 Watt Laser Module ($699) to test.

If you purchase the P3 with the 48 Watt module the cost there is $1499.

This blog won’t be as long as that blog since I covered all the cool stuff about the P3 already. I can focus on the updated module.

I almost never do this but I have one small beef right out of the the box. The P3 48 Watt Laser Module is a bit bigger than the 2 IN 1 Laser Module.

In my picture here you can see the two thumbscrews which are used to secure the module to the frame. Because of the larger size of the 48 watt module you simply can’t get the grip on those things like you can with the 2 IN 1 module installed. This might not bother you, but I have the fumble fingers. And it doesn’t make it impossible it’s just a tiny bit harder to secure.

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LCD HD44780 Raspberry Pi 8 Bit Wiring

NOTE:  I originally wrote this in 2017 and want to upgrade this project to the latest Raspberry Pi OS.  This is why I started this page.  To document my ridiculously involved projects so I could repair/replace them someday.   This is a direct cut and paste of my page from the internet Wayback Machine.  I’ll clean it up later as I am currently working on this LCD project again.