Images and text reversed when engraving with a rotary

LightBurn Hardware Compatibility Ruida controllers
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So, other than rotating the rotary device 180 degrees, is there a way to tell it ti simply spin the other way?

Thanks

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There isn’t - You can just mirror the job vertically (select everything and hit ‘V’).

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That is what I did today to finish my jobs. Someone suggested on the old facebook group to swap a set of wires from the driver to the motor. Have any experience with that?

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All two phase stepper motors work that way - swap any two wires to reverse the direction, so yes, I’d expect that to work too.

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Any two, not specific? Also, I guess changing the origin of the laser from front to back wouldn’t have an effect on rotary jobs?

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Swapping the origin from front to back might work too. And you’d reverse any coil pair.

In the below image, it’d be swapping the two A wires, or the two B wires. The motor driver will have the pairs labeled.
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its sometimes easier to just put the rotary attachment in the other way round

instead of the chuck being on the left , as it would be on a lathe , put the attachment in with the chuck on the right.

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Hey Oz, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, even though I am sure you have answered them a million times else where.

And Barrie, I hear ya, but for my own sanity, I am trying to keep all my lasers operating the same way so as not to get something confused when going from machine to machine.

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Swapped my a+ and a- on my rotary plug. all is good! Thanks everyone!

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Just did a batch of 6 yetis, and after probably 20 minutes of operations my rotary motor is about 128 degrees f. Normal?

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Steppers can run pretty hot, so it’s not abnormal. First hit on Google:

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