Just seeing if anyone has dealt with one of these boards before?
Lightburn is working. I can control movement, but there are some issues. Laser says it’s on, but doesn’t fire. Test fire works though. Z axis moves when homing, trying to smash itself into the laser head. Tried turning off in settings and no change.
I’m guessing one or two little tweak will solve my issues, but since I can’t get the settings files, I’m grasping at straws.
Not sure if anyone has ideas, but I figured I’d give it a shot.
I thought SendCutSend was a service company, providing custom cutting and finishing services. Not aware they produced a motion control system as well. As a large service provider, they may have had custom control needs and had another manufacture produce these solutions for them. If you have access to the seller, do they know who the original Mfg might be? Did it come with additional software, besides LightBurn? When you installed LightBurn, did you use the ‘Find my Laser’ feature, or did you add manually? Which Device Profile are you finding some success? Let’s start with this.
Good point @gilaraujo. Yes, Please. Send additional pictures of the keypad (HMI) and a few from the electronics cabinet. Show us as much as you can get to, so we can “see” as much as possible as if we were there.
@Rick They are a service company! Local and I guess they sold off old machines which is how the guy I’m helping got it, by way of another party. Interesting that they’d make a board though.
The only other photo I have right now is of the drivers until I go back.
I went back to work on it and didn’t make any progress until we got the guy who sold it to come take a look.
Turns out the chiller needed a connection to the laser controller. It wouldn’t fire because it didn’t think the pump was going. But the test fire bypasses that.
Silly. I knew it was something simple. I had asked multiple times if that’s how the buyer saw the seller had plugged everything in.
Jumping the pump monitor connection made it work. Now he’s going to get the chiller wired up to the controller so it works properly.
As for the wild z movement. The company never used it as their custom board does not support it. They ran their lasers 14 hours a day, full sheets at a time and manually moved it around.
