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Subject: laser ablation of paint on copper clad

From: "Jeff Heiss" <jeff.heiss@...>
Date: 2014-12-09

I’m mentally exploring the idea of spray painting copper clad with spray paint and drawing traces in the paint with a laser.  After the laser, the board is then placed in etchant and the copper exposed by the laser is etched away.   I understand this is possible with 20W CO2 lasers by Youtube videos but has anyone explored this with a laser diode?  Is the  abundant ebay 445nm, 1W laser or the 808nm, 3W laser up for the task paint ablation?

 

Jeff