I received a Jtech 44 recently. After a few hours of playing around with it, it seems to work well.
However, this mount is simply abominable, just awful. I like Jtech products but they should have been embarassed to ship this mounting solution. It looks similar to the mount on my 24w, which is so well fitting that it practically leaps into place (with the assistance of the magnets in it). The 44 on the other hand… the magnets don’t seem to have any influence on anything they are so weak. They also are loose in the mounting bracket and fell out, so I superglued them into place. But actually attaching the laser to the mount is a chore. You dont tighten the screws fully, you get them just goldilocks right before pressing down a lot harder on the housing than i am comfortable with to wedge the unit into place. Not “lock” into place, in the sense there is any feedback you’re locked in, just sort of jam it in there.
Has anyone figured up a better solution for the 44w mount yet? Mine has already fallen off the gantry and broken its fan, which was terrifying to watch, so I have a replacement on the way. I’m thinking some sort of side clamping cam lock or similar could be easily 3d printed. The rear mounting plate would need modification.
Also, while it might disturb the sleeker form factor of the unit, having the fan be so prominently exposed on this laser seems a poor idea. Offsetting and hanging some extra laser “shielding” in front of the fan so as to still cover the diode spot but not interfere with the fan’s intake would have been nice. I do not run my laser around others and I wear laser glasses, but it was a very obvious first thought when running the laser for the first time that if you didn’t have your glasses on, you’d get treated to a laser light supernova when viewing the unit from the height of an average man if your glasses were dislodged. Meanwhile, on the smaller lasers, the laser’s output itself is pretty well shielded when your z height is set. Its not perfect but a world better on the 14 and 24.
Overall I like the unit but the mount situation… I just cannot imagine how they thought that was acceptable on a product this expensive. The 44 can’t help being enormous, but the 24 just feels and “handles” like a more well designed amd premium product.