I have a GRBL M3 1.1e. The laser will not engrave. The problem is not consistent. One day it will engrave and the next it will not. I also cannot get it to cut out a shape. Advise is greatly appreciated.
I would consider upgrading your firmware.
Thanks for the idea. But I changed the S value to 1000 and it is working now! I will keep your idea in mind if the problem returns.
Sigh. Tried again this morning. The problem is happening again.
How do I “upgrade the firmware”?
bit of conflicting data here
If you have a M3 motherboard GBRL, Smax should be 255
You can check by doing
$i
press enter
$$
press enter in console, and maybe copy/paste the whole output here
Check the $30 reading. is it 1000 or 255?
IF 1000, then probably your controller is not a M3, and you need to change the ccontroller type from M3 to GRLB (top)
also make sure you are not attempting to use mm/sec speeds where diodes usually run mm/min (Edit / settings you can change this default scale)
that is not the core of the question
IF you have a M3 controller, it wont have enough definition to use S1000 as S-max because is 8bit.
You can check by doing
$i
press enter
$$
post the full output please
Is this what you mean?
where it says Type command here
Type
$i
press enter
$$
Press enter
SCROLLLL upp and copy/paste all here please
After the console reports a long column of text, actually select all the text (like you would do in a word processing program), then copy the text (Ctrl+c), then paste (Ctrl+v) that directly in the reply here. A screen capture won’t be able to do it because there are many pages of text.
Waiting for connection…
ok
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
Homing
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
$i
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
$$
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
ok
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
Homing
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
$i
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
$$
<Idle|MPos:0.00,0.00,0.00|FS:0,0|WCO:0,0,0>
ok
Project loaded in 4 milliseconds
The above line opened after I copied.
interesting zero output of the commands. Thats odd
Granted, I am new to this game but it shouldn’t be this difficult! What do you recommend?
honestly is more a matter of giving you the correct advise
To give you said advise we need to be sure on what you have as a machine. There are 1000’s of iterations and variants of modules and controllers
If you in fact have a M3 controller, S1000 on Svalue will bring problems down the line
I suspect however you have a newer controller.
Do you have a brand name or alink of your product?
IWEColor support@iwecolor.com
This is all I have. The User Manual is not very helpful. Please don’t give up on me!
last request - picture of the machine? that would help too!
Found some documentation: Matches yours?
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mxYzQ1HR4tjjArBQFv-jQwnktmXohccL
That’s it! Still need a picture?
i am honestly certain you do not have a M3, it was what Lightburn detected
Do this
Laser pannel - click devices
Delete the device it found
Click Create manually
GRBL
Name it Iwecolor
400x400 (is really 410x400but no need to be that specific)
Next
next
done
Go to Edit → settings
Make sure your lightburn is set to mm/min
Then try to engrave this little file
Dot Test with Angle.lbrn (46.3 KB)