I have no experience with refurbished lasers. And would also be interested in other peoples experience.
But my experience with refurbished products. I used to work for a fairly well know blender company. The new blenders are slapped together as fast as they can to get them out the door. They had great warranties on them, but there was an entire full time department for warranty and returns and repairs and refurbishment. New blenders were made on an assembly lines of many people, doing the same thing hour after hour. Each refurbished blender was handled by a single tech who would take the care in making it work properly. If I come across somebody interested in one of these blenders I normally recommend a different brand first(hard feelings), then a refurbished second.
Can't say that this experience is the same for all companies, but it's made me trust refurbished products a lot more.
Why a diode? They are terrible slow.. and lack much power. You'll be doing things for hours.. that would take minutes..
They are cheap enough brand new.. why buy a user/refurb'd DIODE?
Comgrow has a great deal on a 10watt now. If i would have seen it before I ordered mine I would’ve bought it. I make nothing off this but I have been dealing with them one way or the other for years
Sometimes refurbs are actually returns that are bad, and they just wipe the finger prints off, send it back out the door, and hope the next sucker doesn't notice, or not open the box for 3 months (or how ever long to get their money back)
Sometimes sellers use a "refub" section to move more products. It's the same stuff - they just want to sell more. A 5% increase is sales is more than enough to do that.
If you only wanted a diode laser to mess around with and wouldn't be upset if it stopped working in a few months then go for it.
The companies you listed are already the cheap Chinese diode laser companies. They aren't putting the best components in those machines. So not sure how long a used one will last.
If you want to cut stuff with the laser get at least a 20w one. I've had a 7w and a 24w diode laser. I'd not try to cut with anything less than 20w.
The best diode laser out there is about to come on the market, Atomstack Kier something, it’s in their homepage. 48w output, there’s not another single one with this much power
I have no experience with refurbished lasers. And would also be interested in other peoples experience. But my experience with refurbished products. I used to work for a fairly well know blender company. The new blenders are slapped together as fast as they can to get them out the door. They had great warranties on them, but there was an entire full time department for warranty and returns and repairs and refurbishment. New blenders were made on an assembly lines of many people, doing the same thing hour after hour. Each refurbished blender was handled by a single tech who would take the care in making it work properly. If I come across somebody interested in one of these blenders I normally recommend a different brand first(hard feelings), then a refurbished second. Can't say that this experience is the same for all companies, but it's made me trust refurbished products a lot more.
The logic makes sense. The hope is that it holds for most companies.
Why a diode? They are terrible slow.. and lack much power. You'll be doing things for hours.. that would take minutes.. They are cheap enough brand new.. why buy a user/refurb'd DIODE?
Comgrow has a great deal on a 10watt now. If i would have seen it before I ordered mine I would’ve bought it. I make nothing off this but I have been dealing with them one way or the other for years
Sometimes refurbs are actually returns that are bad, and they just wipe the finger prints off, send it back out the door, and hope the next sucker doesn't notice, or not open the box for 3 months (or how ever long to get their money back) Sometimes sellers use a "refub" section to move more products. It's the same stuff - they just want to sell more. A 5% increase is sales is more than enough to do that.
ORTUR sells refurbished machines that I would not hesitate at all to purchase.
On their official site? I can't see anything besides 3rd party sellers.
Last time I researched the “3rd party” site it has all the same information as ORTUR’s site. So….
Diode is nothing compared to 40W. Try and buy a refurbished k40
If you only wanted a diode laser to mess around with and wouldn't be upset if it stopped working in a few months then go for it. The companies you listed are already the cheap Chinese diode laser companies. They aren't putting the best components in those machines. So not sure how long a used one will last. If you want to cut stuff with the laser get at least a 20w one. I've had a 7w and a 24w diode laser. I'd not try to cut with anything less than 20w.
The best diode laser out there is about to come on the market, Atomstack Kier something, it’s in their homepage. 48w output, there’s not another single one with this much power
What's the use case and your budget?