I am on version 9.04. Every now and then when sending a cut job it does not send the correct power. For instance on a 150w tube I will send a job at 5mm and 90 power. The Ma gauge will only go to 20 and the cut doesn’t go all the way through.
If I run the exact same job in Lasercad, the meter will go to 3 as expected and the job cut perfectly.
This is seems to happen more frequently than not now.
Hi Russel - That didn’t answer my question though (just trying to clarify here). In LaserCAD, as in LightBurn, there are two power values, Min Power and Max Power:
Can you show a screen shot of the settings you used in both LaserCAD and in LightBurn?
He ask for minimum and maximum power settings. If I am missing something by having that setting turned on and affecting the power, please share your info so that I may benefit from it.
Perforation mode produces dashed lines. In your case, they’d be incredibly small (one hundredth of a mm), and would give the appearance of the job running at half power, because the cut and skip lengths are the same. If that was enabled when you ran your file, it would explain the difference.
My new scope arrives in a day or so. I’ll run some comparison tests between LightBurn and LaserCAD files to see if the outputs are different, and if I can spot why.
So turning that setting off has the output between the two programs matching now? (just making sure)
As an addendum, if you’ve been playing with different settings in the UI and aren’t sure what some of them do, there’s a “Reset to Defaults” button at the bottom that wipes all settings for the current layer to a known reasonable default state.