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Paper and wood - lots of ply and balsa, most likely.

That's what I was wondering ever since you started this thread. Metal cutting requires a LOT of power - 500W plus, and MASSIVE power supply (they are very inefficient)..
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Yea it's used for Chip board (a type of poster board-esque material, but a little thicker) and MDF mainly, but can cut most materials other than those 3 types up to a quarter-inch. Wood would be fine, just the MDF is provided in house.
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500W? you mean 5kW right? Probably more like 50kW.

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Nope. 500W laser power would blast through steel, BUT needs significantly more input power to run.

Modern solid-state (diode pumped) LED lasers can be 25-30% efficient (i.e. 1/4 of the power in is turned into useful light).
Can't find a good reference, but CO2 lasers appear to be in the same range..
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