Hi guys, total laser noob here, just 2 weeks ago my wife got me a ray5 20w laser, I just started fiddling with it this past weekend, everything looked fine until I connected the rotary tool to it, and the thing would not work for me the, X axis would take off and ram into the right side of the frame, belive it or not that is not fixed yet, I gave up, so I went ahead and unplugged it from the Y axis and I thought to myself imma just do a few flat jobs instead, to my surprise I started ok in lightburn decided to mark my table surface with 9 circles to use it as a template for some coasters I was going to work on, to my surprise the Y axis stopped at 280mm mark and the job got stuck there, and everything i did always stopped there,I scrapped that project and decided to run a line as border for my entire work area to verify that the machine was (what i think) misreading the job parameters sent to it from lightburn, so next the machine ran the job no issues except that instead of 400x400mm I got 280mm Y axis by 400mm X axis,
so now I have to fix that,
so I can go ahead and fix the rotary roller, since the main reason to have the laser is to etch serial numbers on titanium tubing,
and I need to have a whole bunch of them done by this coming Saturday (I hope you forgive my desperation)
Please if anyone could help me finding out what’s wrong, I would highly appreciate it
thanks so much everyone
Do you get any console output at that position? Most likely, the workspace size is not set correctly in parameters $130 and $131.
Hi there, the console just showed that the burn was finished just fine, but the size was way smaller,
I think the issue is $101 that got changed to 56 when I was in the process of connecting the rotary roller, as the instructions called for that change, I’ll work on that tomorrow asap, and i will check $130 $131 as well,
since I still have to make that roller work before the 17th of this month,
thank you so much for taking the time, I’ll post the updates as soon as I get some results,
maltyox chawe 
achi’l
Yes, that’s the cause, then. You need to set $101 forth and back while changing from rotary to normal and back.
I recommend not changing $101 but using the LightBurn wizard. It makes things much easier. I have some explanations on setup here: Rotary roller - Diode Laser Wiki
hi, there, thnx for all the help, after fixing some parameters, the machine is running the lengh it was supposed to run,
now with the rotary roller,
I did as you and the article recommended,
I manually turned off homing, and reduced the Y axis travel steps to 56 in the rotary wizard in lightburn,not in the firmware, I used current position from the start, so everything seemed to be calibrated properly, so I went ahead and brought in a project to test the roller, I tested the roller in the lightburn wizard and it tested just fine, next I tried framing it from laser window and gave me ALARM 2
right click on devices button and so far that’s where I’m at, I did that in my lunch time, I’ll get back to it later this afternoon,
thanks so much I feel like I’m getting really close to fixing this issue
I appreciate your help 
Maltyox chawe Achi’l
This is because your y-axis is endless now. Soft Limits do not apply for that axis as long as the rotary is connected. Set $20=0 during that time.
Oh Achi’l you don’t know how grateful I am, you have given me such invaluable help,
from the bottom of my heart
Maltyox Chawe Jumul, Kajmul,Oxmul, Kamul
(thank you not once, twice or three times but four times)
you alone solved my 2 problems not even the manufacturer helped me the way you did,
I just ran a test and it worked like a champ,
I added the $20=0 to the macro button I had designated for " rotary on" as your article explains and it ran beautifully,
now all I have left to do is figure out my laser settings to etch on my tubing, but it won’t be an issue,
so I can get my stuff out in time for my deadline,
I’m attaching a pic of the only test I conducted after applying your last advice,
once again Maltyox Chawe Achi’l
may the Maker and the Creator Tepeu Bitol Kukumatz bless you always!
