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The Handheld Fiber Laser Welding Machine is an advanced welding tool that utilizes fiber laser technology to perform high-precision welding operations. This machine is designed for ease of use and versatility, making it an ideal choice for various welding applications in different industries.

HandHeld Fiber Laser Welding Machine

The Handheld Fiber Laser Welding Machine is an advanced welding tool that utilizes fiber laser technology to perform high-precision welding operations. This machine is designed for ease of use and versatility, making it an ideal choice for various welding applications in different industries.

Handheld laser welding machines are innovative tools for precession welding in various industries. A handheld laser welding machine is a portable laser beam welder that couples a high thermal energy light beam into an optical fiber turns it into parallel light through a collimating lens, focuses on the weldable metal parts, and releases heat to join pieces of metal together.

A portable laser welder is an easy-to-move welding machine that works with a handheld laser welding gun to achieve the connection of metal joints indoors and outdoors, which is user-friendly and easy to use for both beginners and professionals.

It is flexible and convenient to achieve non-contact welding of those difficult-to-weld parts. The manual laser beam welder can realize the spectrum separation on time and energy, and create multi-beam welds at the same time, providing the conditions for highly precise welds compared with the traditional MIG & TIG welder, electric welder, and more arc welders.

Advantages of hand held fiber laser welding machine

1. Wide welding range: The handheld welding head is equipped with 10m original optical fiber, which overcomes the limitation of the workbench space, and can be welded outdoors and used for long-distance welding;
2. Convenient and flexible operation: hand-held laser welding is equipped with movable wheels, which is easy for transportation and can adjust the working position at any time. It is flexible and suitable for various working scenarios.
3. A variety of welding methods: welding at any angle can be realized: overlap welding, butt welding, vertical welding, flat fillet welding, internal wire-filler welding, external wire-filler welding, etc., It can be used for various complex and large workpieces with irregular-shaped welding.
4. Good welding effect: hand held fiber laser welding machine is thermal fusion welding. Compared with traditional welding, laser welding has a higher energy density and can achieve better welding results. The welding seam strength reaches or exceeds the base metal itself, which cannot be guaranteed by ordinary welding machines.
5. The welding seam does not need to be polished or ground: after traditional welding, the welding point needs to be polished to ensure smoothness. The hand-held laser welding can perform continuous welding, smooth and beautiful without any welding scars, which saves follow-up polishing procedures.

The laser welding process is thermal conduction, i.e. the laser radiation heats the surface of work piece, and the surface heat diffuses to the interior through thermal conduction and melts the work piece by controlling the width, energy, peak power and repeating frequency of laser pulse to form specific molten pool.

Handheld Laser Welder Pros & Cons

✔ Featuring with power options of 1000 watts, 1500 watts, 2000 watts, 3000 watts for various penetration depths up to 8mm.

✔ Easy to move, flexible and convenient, enabling both indoor and outdoor welds.

✔ Fast welding speed, 2-10 times faster than traditional MMA, TIG and MIG welders.

✔ Straight and uniform welded seam, smooth and clean, deep penetration, small taper, no polishing required, save time and cost.

✔ Firm welded metal joints with no deformation and less scar.

✔ Less consumables, low energy consumption and long service life.

✔ User friendly, easy to use, safety, and environmentally friendly.

✔ Limited power compared to larger stationary laser welding systems.

✔ Operator skill is required to avoid weld defects.

✔ It can cost extra for ongoing servicing and maintenance.

What Is A Handheld Laser Welding Gun?

Handheld laser welding gun is a portable welder combined with laser generator, controller, cooling system, and automatic wire feeder to achieve stitch, nail, butt, lap, edge, crimp, and T welding, as well as more types of metal joints. The hand-held laser welder gun is flexible and convenient, which can realize long-distance and outdoor welding. The user-friendly operating mode enables the weldable parts in any position and at any angle, which is suitable for various complex metal joints.

The hand-held laser beam welding gun is composed of a gun body, a cooling chamber and a protective gas chamber. It is not only simple and compact in structure, easy to operate and carry anywhere, but also can be easily connected to the cooling medium source and the protective gas source, so that the laser gun can be effectively cooled, and the working area can also be effectively used. A protective gas atmosphere is formed, which makes the weld quality reliable.

How Much Does A Handheld Laser Welder Cost?

A portable handheld laser welder is not the cheapest option you will find in the market. While it offers greater accessibility and flexibility, it can cost you more than traditional stationary welding machines.

Based on the data from Google, Amazon, and IGOLDENCNC the average cost of a handheld laser welding machine is around $6,180 depending on the power options. An entry-level 1000W handheld laser welder starts at around $4,600 for beginners and hobbyists at home. An affordable 1500W handheld laser welding machine ranges from $4,800 to $5,280 for a small, low-cost business.

A professional portable laser welder machine with a 2000W fiber laser welding gun can cost you anywhere from $6,800 to $7,280. An industrial portable laser welding machine with a 3000W fiber laser power option is priced as high as $9800 for commercial use. A multipurpose 3-in-1 portable handheld laser cleaning, welding, and cutting machine is budget-friendly and ranges from $4,700 to $6,800.

Portable Laser Welder Applications

Portable laser welders can weld stainless steel, carbon steel, brass, copper, aluminum, gold, chromium, silver, titanium, nickel, platinum, rhodium, tantalum, niobium, tungsten, molybdenum and other metals or alloys, which can also weld a variety of different types of metal materials, including brass to stainless steel, copper and brass, titanium and molybdenum, titanium and gold, nickel and copper, and so on.

Handheld laser welding machines are applied to all walks of life from home use to industrial manufacturing:

Aviation – Engine casings, wing spacers, fuselage skins and ribs, wall panels, bellows.

Electronic Instruments – Integrated circuit leads, picture tube electron guns, all-tantalum capacitors, speed control tubes, instrument hairsprings.

Machinery – Precision springs, dot matrix printer parts, metal thin-walled bellows, thermocouples, electro-hydraulic servo valves.

Steel Metallurgy – Welding silicon steel sheets with a thickness of 0.2~8mm and a width of 0.5~1.8mm, high, medium and low carbon steel and stainless steel, the welding speed is 100~1000cm/min.

Automobile – Roof, body, side frame, automobile chassis, transmission device, gear, ignition center shaft and dial assembly, etc.

High-Speed Rail – Honeycomb structure of car body.

Ships – Decks, cabin bulkheads, cabin walls, flat plate sandwich members.

Medical – Pacemakers and lithium-iodine batteries used in pacemakers.

Food – Food cans (using Laser Welder to replace traditional soldering or contact high-frequency welder, which features with non-toxic, fast welding speed, material saving, beautiful joints, and excellent performance).

Others – Gas turbines, heat exchangers, dry cell zinc and copper casings, nuclear reactor parts.

Comparison of laser welding machine and other welding methods

(1) Brazing: The characteristic of conventional brazing is that the base material to be welded does not melt, and another low-melting alloy is used as the brazing material to connect the two base materials. Laser welding can save lining and reduce material consumption, and at the same time increase the working temperature of welded joints and improve joint performance.

(2) Arc welding: Many different types of arc welding transfer heat to the surface of the joint, resulting in wide seams and molten stacks. When deep penetration welding is performed, it is necessary to use filler wire for multilayer welding. It is the opposite of energy-concentrated laser welding, where the total heat input to the workpiece is high in arc welding, resulting in deformation and human heat-affected zones

(3) MIG welding: It uses consumable electrodes and shielding gas, which can be automated and used to weld most metals. Laser welding does not require electrodes, has small deformation, high speed, and can be single-pass double-sided welding and secondary forming. However, MIG welding is more suitable for thick workpiece connection than laser welding. Of course, filler wire should be added at this time.

(4) TIG welding: Non-consumable electrodes and shielding gas are used to weld thin workpieces, but the welding speed is quite slow, and the heat input is much higher than that of laser welders, which is prone to deformation.

(5) Submerged arc welding: Laser welding does not require flux and welding wire used in submerged arc welding, and the deformation is also small and the speed is steep.

(6) Plasma arc welding: it is similar to tungsten argon arc welding, but its torch produces a compressed arc: to increase the arc temperature and energy density. It is faster and deeper than tungsten argon arc, but it is still inferior to laser welding.