EleksMaker® EleksLaser A3X-2500mw Laser Engraving Machine Interface

[southernturner13 (William S. Maddox Sr.)]

I’m pretty sure this has been addressed in previous posts but I wasn’t able to find it.

Lightburn software will not home, return to orgin and work as designed with this laser engraver. I do not know what controller I have but the software identifies it as GRBL-AS-15 China. A friend of mine stated that I may have to load a different device to get it to work correctly. Also, the software crashes routinely. I know others that have this software and rave about using it, so I’m fairly certain I do not have the EleksMaker A3X configured correctly.

Any help is appreciated!

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@southernturner13

EleksMaker

Here are a few resources…

Eleksmaker A3 2500mw laser - won't burn anything

Check your setting for $30 and $32 in the console by typing $$ and pressing enter. $32 should be 1 (enable laser mode) $30 should be 1000 The $30 value can be set either in your firmware to match LightBurn or in the LightBurn device settings (S Max) to match your GRBL setting. Here is another great resource for your setup. http://wiki.eleksmaker.com/doku.php?id=elekslaser_a3_pro As another member previously posted, “Scroll down to the bottom “operating instructions” and follow that. Once y…

How to change the speed

Typically the machine ships with an older version of grbl so go with the GRBL-M3 (1.1e or earlier) device in LightBurn. Ideally, you would upgrade to GRBL 1.1f and then use just the GRBL device. There is a separate group for these types of machines on Facebook and quite a few people there use LightBurn, so they might be able to advise you more. Once running grbl 1.1f or later, check your setting for $30 and $32 in the console by typing $$ and pressing enter. $32 should be 1 (enable laser mode) …

Eleksmaker A3 pro settings to work

We also need to know the firmware version you are using to run your laser. We have seen the Eleksmaker machine ship with an older version of grbl so if this is the case, go with the GRBL-M3 device in LightBurn. Ideally, you would upgrade to GRBL 1.1f and then use just the GRBL device. Check your setting for $30 and $32 in the console by typing $$ and pressing enter. $32 should be 1 (enable laser mode) $30 should be 1000 The $30 value can be set either in your firmware to match LightBurn or i…

And the LightBurn Documentation section discussing the subject: Documentation/CommonGrblSetups.md at db0175736fffa2f94e03422db8cab58d722ad68a · LightBurnSoftware/Documentation · GitHub

[southernturner13 (William S. Maddox Sr.)]

Thank you to all who answered!

[southernturner13 (William S. Maddox Sr.)]

Guys…didn’t get anywhere with the information provided. These are the codes that come up on the console…

$$

$0=10 (step pulse, usec)

$1=25 (step idle delay, msec)

$2=0 (step port invert mask:00000000)

$3=2 (dir port invert mask:00000010)

$4=0 (step enable invert, bool)

$5=0 (limit pins invert, bool)

$6=0 (probe pin invert, bool)

$10=3 (status report mask:00000011)

$11=0.010 (junction deviation, mm)

$12=0.002 (arc tolerance, mm)

$13=0 (report inches, bool)

$20=0 (soft limits, bool)

$21=0 (hard limits, bool)

$22=0 (homing cycle, bool)

$23=0 (homing dir invert mask:00000000)

$24=25.000 (homing feed, mm/min)

$25=500.000 (homing seek, mm/min)

$26=250 (homing debounce, msec)

$27=1.000 (homing pull-off, mm)

$100=80.000 (x, step/mm)

$101=80.000 (y, step/mm)

$102=80.000 (z, step/mm)

$110=5000.000 (x max rate, mm/min)

$111=5000.000 (y max rate, mm/min)

$112=5000.000 (z max rate, mm/min)

$120=200.000 (x accel, mm/sec^2)

$121=200.000 (y accel, mm/sec^2)

$122=200.000 (z accel, mm/sec^2)

$130=5000.000 (x max travel, mm)

$131=5000.000 (y max travel, mm)

$132=5000.000 (z max travel, mm)

ok

So, I’m not sure what is going on. How do I load codes $30 and $32? When I type them into the console, I get a invalid statement.

Thanks in advance!

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

@Rick

Typically the machine ships with an older version of grbl so go with the GRBL-M3 (1.1e or earlier) device in LightBurn. Ideally, you would upgrade to GRBL 1.1f and then use just the GRBL device. There is a separate group for these types of machines on Facebook and quite a few people there use LightBurn, so they might be able to advise you more.

You do not have $30 nor $32 as you are running an older version of grbl firmware. Set LightBurn to GRBL-M3 in ‘Devices’ or update the firmware of your controller to 1.1f or latest official release and then use the GRBL device in LightBurn.

[southernturner13 (William S. Maddox Sr.)]

I am using GRBL-M3 but it will not home and when it does laser, it’s mirrored…suggestions?

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Yes, I do. Did you follow the setup process I posted above?

First would be this: https://wiki.eleksmaker.com/doku.php?id=elekslaser_a3_pro
Did you follow this and have your system working in Elekscam? This will provide you a known working setup prior to introducing LightBurn.

Then followed by this: https://github.com/LightBurnSoftware/Documentation/blob/master/CommonGrblSetups.md#common-grbl-setups

Where did you set the Machine Origin in LightBurn?